‘Israel should invest gas revenues in human capital at home rather than in foreign funds’

05.07.2013                      27.Tammus.5773

Umwelt & Technologie:

‘Israel should invest gas revenues in human capital at home rather than in foreign funds’

Shraga Biran argues for using the $126b. on expanding education, tackling inequality, poverty, unemployment.

To maximize the socioeconomic potential of the public revenues generated by the country’s natural gas finds, Israel should invest these profits not in a speculative foreign fund as planned but instead in domestic human capital, a prominent lawyer-businessman told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday….