Taub Center accused of racism by the Israeli Innovation Authority

Taub Center, a brain trust, published a report that Israel's potential to further develop the hi-tech industry is nil, because all the manpower with hi-tech potential is already working in the sector. About 8% of the Israeli manpower works in hi tech, which is the highest percentage of all countries.

Taub's conclusion is that the government's effort to widen the pool of hi-tech workers, led by the Innovation Authority, is hopeless and that it will fail. The governmental authority accused Taub of ….  hear! racism.

The government arguments that in addition to educated middle class (mostly Ashkenazi) already occupied in hi tech, there are vast pools of untapped people with potential, such as women, Arabs, Orthodox men in the Yeshivot (religious studies), and inhabitants of the periphery physically isolated from hi tech centers. The gov maintains that it is absurd that women and Arabs with exactly the same educations should not be hi-tech material. If they cannot be absorbed by the hi-tech industry it is because they had bad teachers and were discriminated by racist personnel managers. That is the only conclusion.

The table above seems to say that the skill gap is too large in Israel. We are a very heterogeneous multi-racial population. BTW, it is unclear to me why there are the upper two columns. It must hide an unspeakable secret.