WASHINGTON POST
Israel hopes a cyber-city in the desert will coax highly trained, affluent, young people away from Tel Aviv
by Ellen Nakashima and Ruth Eglash
May 14, 2016

This city in the heart of the Negev desert was once a melting pot of Jewish immigration, teeming first with new arrivals from Arab lands, and then with Russian speakers. Today, it is fast becoming a high-tech hub. Soon, it will be populated by the military, drawing in career soldiers and their families. The trend is part of a larger effort by the Israeli government to redress a population imbalance in which most of Israel’s highly trained, affluent young people prefer to live in Tel Aviv and its environs, while less-educated and poorer communities struggle to survive in the periphery. READ MORE