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Beersheba evolves into Israeli tech powerhouse

With financial benefits, investment in infrastructure and a vibrant university, Israel's southern city of Beersheba is swiftly becoming a hub for both international and local high tech companies.
Ben-Gurion University

There has been enormous change in Beersheba, a southern Israeli city that was once best known for poverty and other socioeconomic problems. 

Eight years ago, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remarked on the "human capital" of the south, saying, "For the first time there’s immigration to the Negev. This is changing its character. Beersheba will be the cyber capital of the eastern hemisphere.”

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