Periphery

Israel to build new international airport in Negev, PMO announces

The project, initially approved by the Economic Affairs Committee in March of 2025, is also intended to help alleviate traffic at Ben-Gurion Airport.

Passengers at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on September 18, 2025.
Pitchon-Lev launches new scholarship for youth from Israel’s socio-economic periphery

Pitchon-Lev launches new scholarship for youth from Israel’s socio-economic periphery

NEW APARTMENTS are under construction in Katzrin this month. The importance of developing our periphery – the Galilee, the Golan, and the Negev – is increasingly evident, the writer maintains.

Developing Israel’s periphery is vital for economy, aliyah - opinion

Ido Mahatzri

25 ViZionaries Ido Mahatzri: No. 15


Hi-tech in Israel: Entrepreneurs found school in periphery

A new academy will begin operation in Sderot in September 2021 and will teach 200 young people English so that they can work in Israel's hi-tech sector.

Israeli national flags flutter in front of an office tower at a business park housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva.

Poor Israelis from the periphery more likely to die of cancer - study

The study's finidngs were consistent with the findings of previous smaller studies that showed a link between living in the periphery of Israel and a higher risk of developing all types of cancer.

Cancer (Illustrative)

Israel's periphery treated to crowdfunding campaign for scholarships

The crowdfunding campaign is especially needed now, due to two years without a state budget and the coronavirus pandemic preventing fundraisers from being held.

Students as part of the ISEF

Ma’agalim – helping fulfill the potential of tomorrow

The essence of Ma’agalim’s success: a team of dedicated counselors – and students who recognize that the staff members have their best interests at heart and heed their advice.

MA’AGALIM YOUTH engage in activities.

Time to change budget priorities, protect Israel's socially disadvantaged

Now, when elections are underway, we must ensure a social budget, a budget mainly focused on education and narrowing gaps

A GENERAL VIEW of Kiryat Malachi. After many years of neglect, towns in the periphery threaten to erupt like a volcano. This is the real epidemic – the social epidemic.

Amid COVID-19, US volunteers help teach children in Israel's periphery

Issrael's periphery is filled with disadvantaged communities, who can struggle with the shift to remote learning.

Israeli students arrive to school, at a high school in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod, November 29, 2020.

Israeli peripheries and non-central areas to get better cellular network

"The peripheries around Israel are national destinations and therefore need advanced infrastructure and full cellular coverage."

Two arab boys sit on the Street with their phone seen near Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem's Old City on October 5th, 2016.

Bar-Ilan initiative aims to address health needs in disadvantaged Galilee

The incubator's efforts to bring greater health care to the Galilee are important, as the region has been known to lack many of the health services available to Israelis living in the center.

Mount Adir, in the upper Galilee

Bikurim Youth Village creates artistic opportunity for Israel’s periphery

The Village, which was established in 2014, “began as a family project or really, as kind of a wish or a dream,” according to its co-founder, Prof. Jonathan Dekel-Chen.

BIKURIM OFFERS a curriculum that focuses on performance and composition capabilities.

The social and geographic periphery: First to pay, last to benefit?

The corona crisis exposed the unhealthy state of Israeli society and further underscored the gaps between the country’s center and its periphery.

An emphasis on making a profit could undermine the breadth and depth of Israel's postal service – jeopardizing delivery to towns in the geographic periphery [Illustrative]