Zitat des Tages von Stef Wertheimer:
Germany and South Korea were able to lower unemployment through success in export industries.
We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.
Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it's known for religious stories, it's known a bit for agriculture, but... neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.
The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don't have time to quarrel.
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief - to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.
The Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don't like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena.
Achievements in successful export industries, which need highly skilled people, can create an area as flourishing as South Korea and Singapore.
When people work together, they have no time for nonsense.
I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don't think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.
I made my money in Iscar. I spend my money on the industrial parks.
With the areas which have no oil, the idea is to create industry and jobs.
The fact is that we created 10 to 20,000 jobs for Arabs and Jews and Druze, which has made the Galilee a very positive place.
People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.
For us to become a nation, everyone - including Arabs, Druze, ultra-Orthodox and new immigrants - must feel that they belong. Their success is extremely important to us. If they succeed, they will come to understand the advantages of democracy and freedom.
