ABSTRACT
The industrial plants established in Israel’s peripheral regions during the late 1950s and early 1960s had a major role in creating a stable economic base in the development towns. However, during the 1970s, it was increasingly argued that this industrial base had become a burden to the development of these towns as a gradual rise in the level of education and skills has rendered these ‘old generation’ plants less suited to the employment skills of the local labour force (Kipnis 1976).
