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


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.

Haifa

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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Elbit gets $280m. Defense Ministry contract

Elbit Systems Ltd. to supply, upgrade and provide maintenance as part of the IDF communications equipment project.

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'We want to improve lives, not make a revolution'

Activists from outside Tel Aviv: Rothschild tent city movement is losing sight of its original goals.

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Privatization of school health services to end in periphery

Health Ministry will hire public health nurses in the northern and southern district from Ashkelon downwards.

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Heat, high tourist season don’t stop Eilat protest

400 take to the streets for second weekly protest; organizer says turnout is meaningful during heavy tourism months.

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Social justice movement plans to take to the periphery

"The government has always neglected these areas and we want to show that we aren't neglecting them too," protest leader says.

300,000 protestors call for social justice