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The Detroit Jewish News, 2000-08-18

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Israel's highly successful Intel plant reveals the
differences between rich and poor.

AVI MACHLIS
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Kiryat
at Gat, Israel
ifteen miles southwest of
the area where David slew
Goliath, an enormous com-
plex faced in pinkish
Jerusalem stone testifies to a new type
of giant towering over Israel.
This is Fab 18, a plant opened last
year by Intel, the world's biggest semi-
conductor manufacturer, in the indus-
trial zone adjacent to the poor south-
ern town of Kiryat Gat.
It is here that Israelis see the best
and the worst of their country's new,
technology-driven economy. Jobs are
created, but the gaps between rich
and poor have widened, as low-tech
workers are not being integrated into
Israel's new job market.

Inside, the 75-acre facility is like a
small city, complete with fitness room,
infirmary and travel agency. There is
almost a relaxed California feel that
contrasts with Israel's usual bustle.
Casually dressed workers wearing
brightly colored hard hats break for
coffee in the tree-lined plaza.
Engineers in airtight white bunny
suits working in a sterile 30,000-
square-foot "clean room" are quietly
and diligently churning out silicon
wafers, which contain Pentium 733
megahertz chips that power the
world's machines.
The Israeli engineers and managers
at Fab 18 will soon be manufacturing
$3 million worth of chips.a day — or
about $1 billion a year. They have
been so successful that Intel said it is
considering Fab 18 — among several
other sites in the United States and

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