L Business Shorts " n't`14.V, Israel Housing Starts Continue Down TAL MUSCAL Jerusalem Post New construction of dwellings in Israel fell an annualized and seasonably adjusted 12 percent in the first half of 2004, compared to the same TCDal@CDELIS period last year, reaching 13,030 starts. Accoding to the Central Bureau of Statistics, there were 6,170 housing starts between April and June of this year, 11.5 percent fewer than in the same period in 2003, following a 12.7 per- cent fall in the first quarter. Economists noted that the second quarter marked the eighth consecutive quarter of decline in housing starts, despite limited peaks in certain areas of the country. The drop was reported in all districts, except for Tel Aviv, which saw a 54 percent surge in housing starts in the first half of the year, and settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Some 1,900 housing starts were reported in Tel Aviv, about 670 more than in the first six months of last year. 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