(Ha'aretz) Netta Ahituv - In 2015, the Israeli cabinet approved a five-year Economic Development Plan for the Arab Sector with billions of shekels going to transportation, employment, housing, planning and day care. In the last decade, the number of Arabs working in high-tech has increased 18-fold, and one-quarter of them are women. By 2020, it is estimated that Arabs will make up 10% of the country's high-tech workforce. The proportion of Arab doctors in Israel has climbed from 10% in 2008 to 15% in 2018, and 21% of all male doctors are Arab, according to the Health Ministry. Educational institutions in Arab locales are receiving unprecedented levels of funding. The proportion of Arab civil servants rose from 5.7% in 2007 to 11.3% in 2017. 1/3 of all first-year students at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology this year are Arab.
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