'Project Negev' Sees Desert as Hub of Israel's Economy

From: Forward | Date: January 28, 2000| Author: Steinberg, Jessica | Copyright information


Forward

01-28-2000

`Project Negev' Sees Desert as Hub of Israel's Economy

BEERSHEBA -- A university president wants to turn Israel's arid desert
region into a global business hub of the country's renewed economy.

Avishay Braverman, a former World Bank economist who is currently the
president of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, anticipates massive
population growth in Israel over the next decades that will create the need
for a ne...

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