Stef Wertheimer Quotes
The fact is that we created 10 to 20,000 jobs for Arabs and Jews and Druze, which has made the Galilee a very positive place.
Wertheimer, Stef. The Habit of Labor: Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success. The Overlook Press, 2014.
Similar formal opposition to Jewish parochial schools was more formally voiced later—see American Council for Judaism.
A boatload of 23 Jews had arrived in New Amsterdam in 1654 from a failed colony in Brazil. Governor Peter Stuyvesant, an anti-Semite, wanted to deport them and asked for permission from his superiors at the Dutch West India Company. The Directors of the company wanted good citizens in their colony, and the Jews had been very productive citizens in Amsterdam. The Governor was distressed and took this as a rebuke which it was. Stuyvesant was not a very good governor eaith from the point of view of the colomists or the company.
This surprising quotation, along with others a far from main steam American views (See {623830} ) assured her election defeat.
While Ben Gurion’s strategy has been successful with many Arab citizens of Israel, it has not been completely so that the standard of living of Israeli Arabs is on the average still not quite the equal of the Jewish citizens. For those Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza, they have had the worst of both worlds—the occupation by Israel and dependence on the Palestinian Authority for economic development which has never occurred despite the fact that huge sums of money have gone to the Palestinian Authority for the purpose.
The reform bill was developed by the then current Minister of Education who views were quite opposite to Corkey’s. One of the reforms was to eliminate the Bible Teaching and other religious instructions in the public schools. Then these other undesirables would enroll in the public schools whereas before, the Protestants were able to operate segregated public schools where very few Catholics would attend. The religious bigotry by the Catholics in the South of Ireland was equaled if not exceeded by that of the Protestants in Northern Ireland.
Foreign trade creates jobs and eliminates jobs. The people who lost jobs as the result of increased foreign trade are readily identified while the job beneficiaries may never know the reason. So it is a hard political sell even though most of the economic studies have showed that more jobs of more value are created by trade than lost. However, the losers are generally blue collar workers while the beneficiaries are generally white collar and knowledge workers. So there is a socioeconomic class differentiation in the trade issue.
The previous President was terrible. Even when he was defeated by Barrow, he refused to ste down. See Quotation 644397. The new President was trying to unify the country and start democracy anew.
Ze'ev Stef Wertheimer is an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician. He was a Member of the Knesset, and is known for founding industrial parks in Israel and neighboring countries. The Wertheimers are Israel’s richest family as of 2013.
