Words matter. These are the best Stef Wertheimer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I believe that anybody who has to export, and who believes in skills, gets away from fighting about history.
People are dangerous when they have nothing to lose.
I built the windmill 30 years ago in Tefen, and I think it was the right thing to build at that time, and I don’t think that we did much with the solar or with windmills. Not much was done. I think we were too busy.
Tech is important, but if you look at even the successful tech start-ups, you see they employ only dozens of people at most. Tech is never going to have the impact on the job market that manufacturing has.
I truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn’t want to live anyway.
The only thing I knew how to do without a lot of money was repairing tools. I actually started making and repairing tools for machines.
With the areas which have no oil, the idea is to create industry and jobs.
My purpose is to keep people busy and out of mischief – to create good and interesting jobs for them that help families stay together.
Israel and our vicinity is an area that traditionally has little industry. The area is known for history, it’s known for religious stories, it’s known a bit for agriculture, but… neither was the Jewish population thinking about export industry, nor the Arab or Palestinian population.
If we see to it that the Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians have jobs, we will actually be securing our own future.
The problem with our region is that there are areas with oil and too much money, and then there are places such as south Lebanon and the Palestinian territories where there is no work, and instead of developing industry, they become dependent on oil money – this results in extremism.
The Galilee is a quiet place because people have to deliver on time; they don’t have time to quarrel.
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.
I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That’s all I’m interested in.
I see a lot of tech companies developing technology here and selling it abroad, but I don’t see new factories being built, and that worries me, because it means we are not creating the jobs that will guarantee a good life for Israelis.
Our partnership with the American Warren Buffett, from my perspective, is aimed at creating more jobs.
Industry is important, but everyone thinks money is important.
