Will Cisco do to Ofakim what Intel did to Kiryat Gat? - Walla! native. Cisco Systems announced that it had decided to establish a branch in the city.

In recent years, the southern city has undergone a significant boom and it seems that the slowdown in real estate has passed over it. The city's future was secured after the State of Israel invested billions of shekels with the intention of becoming an independent and prosperous city. Today the city has about 32 thousand inhabitants and in the next decade it plans to triple the number of its inhabitants.