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Business, Tech & Science — May 6, 2013   

Burgeoning IT Sector Aims to Reverse Palestinian Economic Rot

Original article by Noah Browning published in the Reuters on 04/17/2013

Photo credit: Reuters / Mohamad Torokman
Photo credit: Reuters / Mohamad Torokman

NABLUS, West Bank — Nestled in a basin in the northern West Bank, the city of Nablus was for millennia a Palestinian cultural and commercial hub, attracting traders to its souk in the heart of the old town.

But Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, and local policy paralysis, have since isolated the Palestinian economy from global markets and pushed unemployment up to nearly 25 percent.

Fledgling Palestinian high-tech firms hope they can now help revitalize the economy, making the West Bank more resistant to Israeli controls on land and the movement of goods and people and less dependent on fickle foreign aid flows, which are blighting the public sector.

“We’re far, far away from being Silicon Valley,” conceded Husam Dweikat, general manager of Isra Software & Computer Co., an e-commerce firm with 35 employees based near the old city.

“Still, we can become a sector that transforms the future of the Palestinian economy, despite the fact the Israeli occupation and our government have deprived us of the right infrastructure, skills and exposure,” Dweikat said.

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