When Is the Next Dira BaHanacha Housing Lottery?

Updated 18 August 2026

There is no fixed date for the next lottery. Israel's Ministry of Construction and Housing announces each round separately, with no calendar published in advance — the announcement comes when it comes. This is why services such as Dira4U do that work for you and send a WhatsApp or Telegram alert the moment a new round goes live.

Is there an official schedule?

No. There is no published calendar of upcoming Dira BaHanacha lotteries. The Ministry of Construction and Housing announces each round when it decides to. Any article promising "the date of the next lottery" is offering an estimate, not official information.

The only official source is the government lottery site, dira.moch.gov.il, which lists the projects currently open for registration and their closing dates. The practical problem: the site does not notify you. You have to go and look.

Official source: the Ministry of Construction and Housing lottery site (dira.moch.gov.il)

How often do lotteries open?

Not on a regular cadence. Some years have seen several rounds; other stretches have gone months without one. The scale varies just as much — one round may cover dozens of projects across many cities, the next only a handful.

Not every round is open to everyone, either. Some are restricted to specific populations, and there is a distinction between first-time lotteries — open only to those who own no home — and follow-up lotteries, which existing owners looking to upgrade can also enter.

Why does it matter to know the moment a lottery opens?

Registration for a round opens and then closes. While it is open you can apply; once it closes there are no extensions and no retroactive registration — that round is over for you.

Someone who knows from the first moment can handle everything calmly: obtain an eligibility certificate if they lack one, review which projects are relevant, and decide without pressure. Someone who stumbles across the lottery later does exactly the same things in a rush — and sometimes that is no longer enough.

That is why most people who miss a lottery don't miss it because they were ineligible — they miss it because they didn't know in time that it had opened.

Why can't the timing be known in advance?

The timing depends on a chain of factors, none of which runs to a published calendar:

• Land marketing — plots must be tendered and ready before a project can go to lottery
• Contractor readiness — a project only enters a lottery once the developer has cleared the required stages
• Government decisions and budget — policy changes directly move round dates
• Targeted rounds — a round is sometimes opened for a specific population outside the normal sequence

How will I know the moment a new lottery opens?

There are three practical approaches, differing mainly in how much effort they demand of you:

• Check manually — visit dira.moch.gov.il regularly. Free, but it means returning to the site repeatedly across months when usually nothing has opened
• Follow real-estate news — works sometimes, but coverage usually arrives after a round opens rather than at the moment it does
• Use an alert service — you get a message the moment a new lottery opens, without checking yourself

What should you prepare in advance?

Whether you make it into a lottery is usually decided before that lottery even opens. Two things are worth sorting out ahead of time:

1. A valid eligibility certificate — issuing one takes time, and you cannot start the process once a lottery is already open
2. An active account on the lottery site — with login details you actually remember, so you do not lose a day to a password reset