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NEWS
Half of Gaza Evacuees Setting Up New Businesses
by Yated Ne'eman Staff
One hundred and forty of the evacuees from the Gaza Strip and
Northern Samaria have already started new businesses and
another 170 are at various stages of setting up businesses
according to a report by the Economic Research Authority at
the Ministry of Trade and Industry. A total of 310 evacuees
are at some stage of setting up businesses compared to 620
business owners before the evacuation.
The report was based on constant information gathering by the
Economic Research authority as part of a broad project to
trace the employment rehabilitation of the evacuees during
the coming years.
In total the percentage of business enterprises, including
businesses currently being set up, is less than 10 percent of
the number of workers who lived in Gaza and Northern Samaria,
while the percentage of active business owners is just 4.5
percent (compared to 20 percent before the evacuation).
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