Residents of Be’er Sheva, students at Ben-Gurion University and soldiers stationed in the south got welcome news with the dedication yesterday of a new high-speed train line from the capital of the Negev to Tel Aviv.

View is a big part of home prices, especially a view of the Mediterranean.

Get Taxi launched its app in Tel Aviv in April 2011, which allows anyone with a smartphone to order a cab without calling a taxi firm. The application finds the nearest cab and, if the driver is free, Get Taxi directs the cab to the customer, while the customer can track the approaching cab on a map on their phone. Customers can also order cabs through Get Taxi’s website.

An 80-story office tower, which would be the tallest building in Israel, is the most prominent feature of a major real estate development planned for the area northeast of the Defense Ministry’s Kirya compound in the center of Tel Aviv.

Unfazed by headlines reporting falling prices, a housing market freeze, price levels staunchly kept high by sellers in the used market, and even the prospect of renewed cost-of-living protests, one young couple has decided it’s time to buy.