Periphery

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

The launch of the scholarship is part of the ongoing collaboration between both organizations, reflecting a vision of not only providing assistance but also showing change for these young people.

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

TRANSPORTATION MINISTER Miri Regev gets on track with Israel Railways last month. The government must take action to support each regional and metropolitan hub, the writer argues.

Invest in the Negev and Galilee rather than in railways to Tel Aviv - opinion


Periphery towns to strike over frozen tax break changes

Nearly 200 towns in the North and South will stop all municipal services, including garbage collection, but not schools, for one day.

Protests against proposed changes to the criteria for periphery residents to receive tax benefits, October 2015.

Litzman, Galilee mayors clash over funds for health services

The meeting, held in the municipality office of Safed Mayor Ilan Shohat, was called to discuss health disparities between the center of the country and the periphery.

Ya'acov Litzman, the deputy health minister

Atidim Stars go from periphery to IDF elite

The atidim stars program aims to bridge the socio econimic gap and bring youth from periphery into elite IDF units.

IDF soldiers storm a target during the ground incursion into Gaza

Additional benefits for industry in Sderot and Gaza envelope approved

Israeli-made goods that are manufactured in the Sderot and Gaza envelope region will be entitled to a 20 percent preference in the price criterion.

An Israeli boy looks at a burnt paint factory in the southern Israeli town of Sderot.

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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