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Mishor Adumim ( he, מישור אדומים) is an
industrial park An industrial park (also known as industrial estate, trading estate) is an area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development. An industrial park can be thought of as a more "heavyweight" version of a business park or office park, ...
located in the industrial zone of the
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of Ma'ale Adumim, about 10 minutes' drive from
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, in the
West Bank The West Bank ( ar, الضفة الغربية, translit=aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; he, הגדה המערבית, translit=HaGadah HaMaʽaravit, also referred to by some Israelis as ) is a landlocked territory near the coast of the Mediter ...
. The international community considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal under international law, but the Israeli government disputes this.


History

According to ARIJ, Israel confiscated land from the following Palestinian villages in order to construct Mishor Adumim: * 2,749 dunams from al-Eizariya, *248 dunams from Isawiya, *138 dunams from
az-Za'ayyem az-Za'ayyem ( ar, الزعیّم) is a Palestinian village in the Jerusalem Governorate, located 3 kilometers east of Jerusalem in the central West Bank. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the village had a population of ...
.Az Za'ayyem Village Profile
ARIJ, p. 16
Since 1998, the park has been managed by the Ma'aleh Adumim Economic Development Company Ltd. Stretching over , it includes businesses and factories, as well as a busy commercial center. In 2014, the park housed 300 factories and small businesses, a bowling alley, two large supermarkets, an art museum and several
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wineries A winery is a building or property that produces wine, or a business involved in the production of wine, such as a wine company. Some wine companies own many wineries. Besides wine making equipment, larger wineries may also feature warehouses, b ...
. These businesses are entitled to special tax breaks under Israeli law. A few, like the Shweiki glass factory, established in 1936, is Arab-owned: the Shweiki products are boycotted by Palestinian consumers, while the
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refuses to give its seal of approval for the shatterproof glass it produces.Judy Maltz
'Down the Road From SodaStream, a Complicated Coexistence,'
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30 January 2014
One of the big draws is a Rami Levy supermarket. Adumim Food Ingredients is a food additives company that manufactures
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s in collaboration with the
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. Most of the businesses rely heavily on Palestinian labour. The SodaStream factory in Mishor Adumim provided employment for 1,300 workers: 950 Arabs (450 Israeli and 500 Palestinian) and 350 Israeli Jews. The SodaStream plant was established in Mishor Adumim by the company founder Peter Weissburgh in the 1990s, before SodaStream was taken over by the Fortismo Capital Fund in 2007. In 2014, Daniel Birnbaum, the current CEO said that he would not have opened the factory at this site, but its presence there was a reality and he would not bow to political pressure to close it, even after the inauguration of a new plant under construction in
Lehavim Lehavim ( he, לְהָבִים) is an affluent village in southern Israel. Founded in 1983 and located in the northern Negev around 15 km north of Beersheba, it is a local council. In it had a population of . History Lehavim, originally ...
in the northern
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. According to Birnbaum, he would not consider closing the plant out of loyalty to its hundreds of Palestinian workers, noting that he could not see how it would help the Palestinian cause if they were fired. Nevertheless, the closure of the Mishor Adumim factory was announced in October 2015.Last Palestinian employees at SodaStream lose their jobs
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Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Many Palestinians are employed at Mishor Adumim where they can make between double to triple the common wages in the Palestinian territories. One Palestinian worker said "I can bring a million people who want to work here". According to a report by ''
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'' in 2017, the Palestinians working in one of Mishor Adumim's factories, the ''Hayei Adam'' (Life of Man) carpentry shop which crafts furniture for synagogues, labour in sweatshop conditions. The Rami Levy supermarket in Mishor Adumim is widely patronized by Palestinians, although Palestinian Authority Economy Minister
Hassan Abu Libdeh Hasan Abu-Libdeh (; born 1954) is a Palestinian statistician and politician, who founded the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in 1993. He served in the Palestinian National Authority as Minister of Labour, Social Affairs, and National Ec ...
warned them in 2010 not to make purchases there. Many of the employees are also Palestinian. On December 3, 2014, a Palestinian teenager entered the supermarket and stabbed two Israeli shoppers.


See also

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Economy of Israel The economy of Israel is a developed free-market economy. The prosperity of Israel's advanced economy allows the country to have a sophisticated welfare state, a powerful modern military said to possess a nuclear-weapons capability, modern inf ...
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Laura of Euthymius The Monastery of Euthymius started as a lavra-type monastic settlement in the Judaean desert, founded by Saint Euthymius the Great (377–473) in 420, known as the Laura or Lavra of Euthymius. After its final abandonment in the 13th century, i ...


References

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External links


Official website of the industrial park
Economy of Israel Industrial parks in Israeli-occupied territories Israeli industrial parks in the West Bank