Tsofen: Establishing hi-tech centers in Arab cities
Tsofen: Establishing hi-tech centers in Arab cities
Tsofen’s model centers on bringing hi-tech jobs into Arab towns. Hi-tech centers have a favorable economic spillover effect into the local community, creating non-engineering positions, increasing local taxes, developing infrastructure and acting as role models. Tsofen helps companies locate into Arab centers; works on community building with a variety of entrepreneurial and technology events; and promotes Arab municipalities as potential locations for hi-tech companies as well as enlisting government support.
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Tsofen - High Technology Centers
Tsofen strives toward full integration between Israel’s Arab citizens and its hi-tech industry as a means of encouraging sustainable economic development and a more equal society. In order to achieve its goals, Tsofen works with the Arab community and stakeholders from the local, governmental and private sectors to (1) add thousands of Arabs into Israel’s hi tech sector and (2) create hi-tech centers as economic anchors in Arab towns. Such centers provide employment opportunities in ...