re investment in yehuda and shomron in article horenc lduz se netcom com horen netcom com jonathan b horen writes while i applaud investing of money in yehuda shomron v chevel azza in order to create jobs for their residents i find it deplorable that this has never been an active policy of any israeli administration since with regard to their jewish residents past governments found funds to subsidize cheap read affordable housing and the requisite infrastructure but where was the investment for creating industry which would have generated income and jobs the investment was there in the form of huge tax breaks and employer benfits you are overlooking the difference that these could have made to any company part of the problem was that few industries were interested in political settling as much as profit after years yehuda and shomron remain barren bereft of even middle sized industries and the jewish settlements are sterile bedroom communities havens for in the main israelis both secular and religious who work in tel aviv or jerusalem but cannot afford to live in either city or their surrounding suburbs true which leads to the obvious question should any investment have been made there at the taxpayer s expense obviously the answer was and still is a resounding no shai guday stealth bombers os software engineer thinking machines corp the winged ninjas of the skies cambridge ma
