A "Yaaay!" For Zionism :)

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“We didn’t talk business, we talked about Zionism, values and commitment to the community,” the finance minister waxed lyrical while describing a meeting with Dan Propper, chairman of food conglomerate Osem.

Propper probably had to try hard not to burst out laughing. He’s had finance ministers far more shrewd than Yair Lapid for breakfast. Still, he listened attentively to Lapid’s comments about “Zionism and commitment” as he thought about what to do with the 46 million shekels ($12 million) he had demanded from Lapid as a condition for setting up a new plant in Arad.

Lapid isn’t fazed by 46 million shekels. After all, he blithely wasted 2.5 billion shekels on his proposal forzero value-added tax for certain home buyers,so what’s another 46 million?

The law for encouraging capital investment, under which grants for establishing plants only go to businesses that will export at least 25 percent of production, doesn’t seem to register with him. Everyone knows that no exports will come out of Osem’s new venture, and the economy won’t benefit from the move to Arad. But laws are there to be circumvented, aren’t they?

The media are reporting about the establishment of a new plant, but in reality this is just the shifting and upgrading of an ice cream factory from Be’er Tuvia to Arad. In other words, 200 unemployed people in Be’er Tuvia will replace 200 unemployed people in Arad. For this we’ll pay 46 million shekels.


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