The Periphery is Forgotten
The Law of Small Numbers is an unwritten bureaucratic law that determines that if the number of residents or children in a certain locality is small, investment in infrastructure for them is not economically justified.…
Assessment
The piece argues that an unwritten bureaucratic rule systematically underinvests in small communities, treating low population numbers as a reason to withhold infrastructure spending. At stake is whether Israel's development model will continue to concentrate resources in population centers or begin to address long-standing neglect of peripheral towns. The next question is whether this critique will translate into concrete policy proposals or remain a lament.