Haaretz
Shvat 1, 5767
The Gross Domestic Product
per capita in the Israeli Jewish sector is three times that of the Israeli
Arab sector, a poll conducted by the Arab Center for Alternative Planning
revealed on Thursday.
The GDP per capita in the Jewish public
stands at $19,150, compared to $6,750 in the Arab sector.
The
director of the center, economist Raja Khoury, called on the government
Thursday to invest the resources necessary to smooth out the gap between
the sectors.
The figures were presented Thursday in a conference in
Nazareth, organized by the center. The poll was conducted by MK Hanna
Swaid, who served as the center's director before he was elected to
Knesset.
GDP is a total value of sales and services produced in a
certain area. Khoury told Haaretz that the figures were collected through
official state publications. The probe did not include East Jerusalem, the
Golan Heights, or mixed Arab-Jewish cities. It should be noted that the
figures published by state institutions are not generally organized
according to divisions between Arab and Jewish communities.
The
Center for Alternative Planning compared the figures in its probe with
figures published by the United Nations Development Program in its Human
Development Reports.