ABSTRACT
The evolution of the industrial geography of Israel since 1973, its present patterns and prospects for future change, should be viewed in the context of the deepening economic stagnation which has reduced the pace of spatial-industrial change in Israel. Post-1973 external economic shifts, together with earlier shifts originating in the post-Six Day War period, have affected the performance of the national spatial industrialisation policy. These changing realities of the 1970s and 1980s can be classified by four major factors:
1 Shifts in economic policy. Growing role of exporting industries and military importsubstituting industries, which have constituted new national economic goals since 1967.
