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Israel's High Tech Boom Threatened By Shallow Labor Pool


Ron Burgundy
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Jabbour, founder and CEO of start-up Edunation, meets with his team at their offices in NazarethWithout the huge populations of emerging markets like India or the vast network of foreigners who call Silicon Valley home, Israel's high tech enterprise seems to have dried out the well. Over the next decade it will face a shortage of about 10,000 engineers and programmers in a market that currently employs 140,000, according to the country's chief scientist, Avi Hasson, who is the government's point man on sustaining innovation. "The issue of skilled and available manpower is the main barrier to growth and competitiveness in the field of high tech," Hasson said.




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