Periphery

From ‘city of camels’ to Israel’s new dream: Beersheba reinventing itself under Mayor Danilovich

For Ruvik Danilovich, one of the easiest ways to measure Beersheba’s transformation is in distance.

Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich with philanthropist Sylvan Adams, who pledged $100m. To help rebuild Soroka Media Center after it was hit by an Iranian missile in the 12-Day War.
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Israel: Deficit in 38% of authorities, 16% in "critical" financial condition

Eli Sagiv, Tsofit Gordon, Shani Cohen and Ariela Yaari.

L’Oréal and Yozmot Atid launch entrepreneurship program for women in periphery

CLICK & CONNECT initiative

Bridging the distance with one click


Group of disheartened voters call to punish periphery for election results

A new Facebook page called Lo Latet ('Do Not Give') urges to no longer donate to underprivileged municipalities that voted in favor of Likud.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Isaac Herzog, Co-leader of the centre-left Zionist Union, are pictured together as campaign billboards rotate in Tel Aviv

Yisrael Beytenu warns against dropping periphery grants

Uri Ariel says government decisions harming housing market, encourages MKs to work to reverse them.

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Gafni slams Treasury over tax grants to doctors

Gafni says Treasury "goes back on its word" over tax on grants for physicians in periphery.

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More in Haifa and North out of work

The unemployment rate in Haifa rose from 6.5 percent in the summer of 2012 to 7.6% last fall,

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Haifa unemployment rises to 'alarming' rate

Businesses in the periphery are 'first to pay price of slow down.'

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Teach the children well

Teach First Israel gets bright, rookie educators into the country’s disadvantaged periphery.

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Home sales down 17% last year

New and second-hand home sales rose 8% in December to 7,400 from 6,848 in November.

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Behind-the-scenes art

Mamuta at the Daniela Passal Art and Media Center in Ein Kerem serves as a retreat for artists working on the periphery.

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Borderline Views: Rethinking the peripheral regions

Middle-class professionals commute from their homes in Tel Aviv to jobs elsewhere without contributing to the cultural landscape in outlying regions.

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Ketura Sun gets first license for medium solar field

Officially launched last June, the 4.95-megawatt, NIS 80 million Ketura Sun field stands on an 80- dunam piece of land.

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