“Realistically, there are an awful lot of girls sitting around not getting shidduchim because their families cannot come up with the 500,000- 1,000,000 NIS that is needed to buy an apartment (price goes up with value of boy in question).”
but l’maaseh, nearly everyone gets married. Certainly until recently, Israel did not have a “shidduch crisis”. I’m not sure if they do now either, but if they do, it is just started despite the fact that this has been an issue for a while. And in fact, if anything, I would think that it’s less of an issue than it used to be, so if there is starting to be a shidduch crisis, this issue (buying apts.) can’t be blamed.
Furthermore, there is much more of a “shidduch crisis” in the US despite the fact that this issue does not exist there.