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Research: The periphery was more damaged during the Corona period Israel today

2021-03-18T21:07:29.337Z


| In the country The reason: most of the high-tech in Israel is in the center - so employment in the area was less affected • "The weak were further weakened and the strong became stronger" Tel Aviv restaurant in Kiryat Shmona closed Photo:  Eyal Margolin / Ginny The corona plague has forced many sources of employment to move to work using zoom technologies and software. It would seem that this upheaval would


The reason: most of the high-tech in Israel is in the center - so employment in the area was less affected • "The weak were further weakened and the strong became stronger"

  • Tel Aviv restaurant in Kiryat Shmona closed

    Photo: 

    Eyal Margolin / Ginny

The corona plague has forced many sources of employment to move to work using zoom technologies and software.

It would seem that this upheaval would go well with the periphery, as technologies seemingly erased geographical constraints.

However, economist Prof. Doron Lavie, dean of the Faculty of Society and Spirit at Tel Hai Academic College and a partner in the Pareto Group, which provides economic advice, strategy and research, argues that its economic damage caused the epidemic to be more powerful in the periphery.

"The corona has significantly increased inequality: the weak have weakened even more and the strong have strengthened, among other things, because technology companies have received a serious boost." Dozens of start-ups have gone insane and the periphery, which has suffered because of small business, has been hit hardest.

The high-tech industry in the north is negligible: if 4% -2% of the general population is in high-tech, then in the periphery the rate is only 1%, "explains Prof. Lavi.

As a test case, we focused on Kiryat Shmona.

There, Mayor Avichai Stern identifies the first buds of potential for the return of young people engaged in the high-tech industry to the city.

"I know someone who lives on the tenth floor in Rosh HaAyin, his children climbed the walls, so a few months ago he returned to live in the meantime in his parents 'late parents' apartment in Kiryat Shmona and he works through the zoom," says Stern.

"He has not yet moved here, but an opportunity has been created in the wake of the technological revolution that he and his ilk will now be able to combine the quality of life that exists here with his career."

However, as of today, Stern says, most of the city's economy is based on small, tiny, family-run businesses, most of which have not closed but have been severely damaged and have not returned their employees to work.

"We received a fatal blow"

Itai Azran, a business owner who specializes in car accessories in Kiryat Shmona, has not worked for a year and is seriously considering resuming his activities.

"Our field has received a fatal blow, the grants we have received from the state are fine, but not enough," says Azran.

"All the companies I worked with were recognized as a vital company but the government ministries did not approve me and even between the closures when I wanted to bring back workers they demanded a raise because they were in the IDF.

I am thinking of turning my real estate into a source of income and not being more independent. "

Prof. Doron Lavi claims that the grants distributed by the state only helped in the short and immediate term.

"There was an opportunity here to take advantage of the corona and especially what we learned - that you can live in the periphery and enjoy employment virtually," concludes Prof. Lavie.

"But the government has not improved the technological infrastructure and has not provided professional training."

Source: israelhayom

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