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Israel Proposes Incentives to Move Tech Jobs Outside Tel Aviv

8/12/2026

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Israel should launch a plan to shift high-tech activity from the Tel Aviv region to Haifa and Beersheba.
86% of software jobs sit in Tel Aviv, which generated 58% of 2025 exports and where 11% of workers produce over one-third of tax revenue.
The government should grant long-term incentives for multinational R&D centers outside Greater Tel Aviv, tied to real jobs, because October 7 war disruptions showed the danger of concentrating activity there.

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Israel should launch a plan to shift high-tech activity from the Tel Aviv region to Haifa and Beersheba.
86% of software jobs sit in Tel Aviv, which generated 58% of 2025 exports and where 11% of workers produce over one-third of tax revenue.
The government should grant long-term incentives for multinational R&D centers outside Greater Tel Aviv, tied to real jobs, because October 7 war disruptions showed the danger of concentrating activity there.