Israeli and Chinese officials applaud the new port deal (Photo: GPO)

China to build new Ashdod union buster port

A Beijing-based contracting firm, China Harbor, has been chosen to build a new union buster port in Ashdod. The new South Port will cost Israel NIS 3.3 billion ($930 million). PIC The new port will be built about one kilometer north of the current Ashdod Port. It will consist of a 1,000-meter pier and 2,800-meter breakwater.…

MK Khenin: Why privatization is doomed to failure

There are those who believe that everything that’s privatized is more efficient and everything run by the government necessarily falls short. Haaretz’s Nehemia Shtrasler champions this approach. I believe that this is a myth, but this doesn’t mean that I support the opposite myth, either. I know that government-run systems are liable to be bureaucratic…