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Article: Beit Shemesh angles to become country's next Silicon Valley
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- Jerusalem Post
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- November 19, 2007
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MATTHEW KRIEGER
Jerusalem Post
11-19-2007
Headline: Beit Shemesh angles to become country's next Silicon Valley
Byline: MATTHEW KRIEGER
Edition; Daily
Section: Economics
Page: 15
Monday, November 19, 2007 -- Despite facing obstacles from city leaders, The Jerusalem Post has learned that a group of Beit Shemesh- based hi-tech entrepreneurs are gaining traction in their push to establish a hi-tech incubator in their sleepy commuter town.
"Our success in establishing this incubator has more to do with the Jewish Agency's Partnership 2000 program which twinned Beit Shemesh with Washington, D.C., than it does with Beit Shemesh itself," Zvi Wolicki, chairman of the Beit Shemesh/Shimshon Hi-Tech ...