Total mortgages on the books of leading Israeli banks continued to rise last year on the back of a decade-long boom in house prices.
Bank Leumi, the largest bank in the country by assets, saw its mortgage book increase 15% year on year in 2020, to $28.1bn from $24.4bn in 2019. It follows a 14% year-on-year rise between 2018 and 2019.
