“Denia Sibus”, one of the largest construction companies in Israel, filed a lawsuit against the Central Statistical Bureau with a request to update the method of calculating the cost of construction costs to the Supreme Court of Justice.
The company claims that the last time the indices of the cost of building housing, commercial real estate and infrastructure were updated 13 years ago, and no longer reflect reality.
“The war greatly changed the construction industry, which had lost a third of the labor force in one night. The influence of the lack of Palestinian workers on the construction industry is expressed in the lack of labor as a whole, and qualified labor in construction in particular,” the lawsuit said, “this led to the lawsuit,” this led to the claim. The sharp price of labor component in the cost of construction, since the salary of Palestinian workers was much lower than the salary of foreign and Israeli workers. ”
According to the statement of claim, officially the housing construction index increased from September 2023 to March 2024 by 0.54%, while in fact, according to the company, it was supposed to grow by 19%.