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

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

For years, Israel has spent millions of shekels building infrastructures to “bring the peripheries closer to center,” instead of dealing with the peripheral transportation infrastructures themselves.

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.

Health equity report exposes gaps in healthcare between central Israel and the periphery

The district with the highest life expectancy in Israel is Judea and Samaria, followed by the Central district. Meanwhile, the northern and southern districts continue to show the lowest figures.

 Israeli soldiers and medical staff at the underground hospital at the Rambam Hospital in Haifa, on September 22, 2024.

Education is the key to rebuilding the North - opinion

Investing in education on the periphery is about securing the future of Israel's society.

 Smoke billows over northern Israel after rockets were fired from Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, by Israel's border with Lebanon, May 17, 2024.

Young, rooted, and rebuilding: The Ayalim Association is breathing new life into the periphery

Amid Israel’s ongoing crisis, Ayalim’s student-led communities in the Negev and Galilee are shaping a new vision of resilience.

 The Ayalim student communities play a vital role in bringing new energy and life to regional revitalization efforts.

Bringing Hi-Tech to Israel’s periphery

Teaching AI and cyber skills to narrow the social gaps.

 Children learning computers

Education for Life: Investing in informal education in Israel’s periphery

Kindergarten children playing with a new AI robot from the Education Ministry.

Government announces extension of evacuations from North, South

The evacuation extensions will be financed by a sweeping 1% budget cut.

 Kiryat Shmona evacuees

Eretz Angels: The new investment club piling resources into Israel's periphery

Eretz Angel members will have the opportunity to invest in deep-tech technological ventures in Israel’s northern and southern communities.

 Eretz Angels: The new investment club piling resources into Israel's periphery

Nina Wiener: US must take campus unrest seriously, change school admins - interview

"Many of the leaders of this whole movement want to destroy Western civilization," Wiener said.

 Consul General of Israel in New York Ofir Akunis,  Israel Scholarship Education Foundation co-founder Nina Avidar-Weiner, and ISEF New York CEO Dima Shimelfarb

Will Cisco do for Ofakim what Intel did for Kiryat Gat?

Tech giant plans to establish a branch in Ofakim, raising questions about the city's potential as a viable alternative for those looking to live, for example, in Beersheba.