[Jerusalem Report] Ziv Hellman - In 1967, when the Israeli and Palestinian economies first began interacting, the average Israeli citizen was 10 times wealthier than the average Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza. Today, Israeli per capita GDP is more than 20 times that of the Palestinians - $27,000 in Israel versus less than $1,200 in the Palestinian territories, down from $2,000 per year in 1992.
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