PILLAR | STRENGTHS | WEAKNESSES | OPPORTUNITIES | THREATS |
1. Availability of public transportation and other services | | W1.01 Buses are not frequent enough | O1.01 Although it heavily depends on number of travellers, there is an opportunity for special public transportation service. | T1.01 Students who are residents for a short time are bringing more cars to the region. |
| W1.02 There is no train connection to the region. | O1.02 There are programmes to connect Kiryat-Shmona to the train services, but it is still in planning status. | T1.02 If transportation will be too easy people may decide to live in the Centre and only come to Galilee for work. |
2. Recreation / social activities | S2.01 The only place you can ski in Israel is the Galilee region. | W2.01 Very few recreation activities, no cinemas and theatres, very few performances. | O2.01 Possibilities to organise more activities regarding the bird watching Agmon Lake. | T2.01 Visitors from outside the region care less on the environment and are contaminating the streams and some camping areas. |
S2.02 Interesting activities of the Tel-Hai College in the programme “Town Square Academy” involve and activate many people in the region. | | O2.02 Since the National Council for Higher Education see the potential, there are chances to get more budgets for additional activities. | |
| W2.02 Since it is a small region almost no national performance are done in the region, except at Tel-Hai Museum. | | |
3. Living condition, quality of life and standard of living | S3.01 Because the area is of high environmental quality people are interested to settle in the Galilee if they can find employment. | W3.01 Since it is a remote region the living conditions are not high, services are not good enough and people have not enough working potential. | O3.01 With better development of the digitalization situation and work from a distance more people will settle in the region. | T3.01 If too many people will decide to build buildings in the region, it may ruin the special “green” character of the region. |
S3.02 As a result of the high cost of houses in the Centre of Israel and the possibilities to build a house in the Galilee, there are more young people who come to resident in the region | W3.02 The construction system in the Galilee does not coop well with the demand and therefore in same cases the quality of buildings is low. | | |
4. Demographic & human capital | | W4.01 Many of the young people are migrating to the Centre, since employment is there. | O4.01 If we will be able to further develop the digitalization infrastructure of the region we will be able to bring many youngsters back to the Galilee. | |
| W4.02 Since very few High-Tech companies exists in the region the brightest youngsters are leaving the region. | | |
5. Business, economy & innovation | S5.01 The activities at MIGAL, Tel-Hai College and Kinneret College is driving forwards innovative activities | W5.01 Employment is very difficult to get in the region, and most of the industries are the traditional ones. | O5.01 The Israeli government is trying now to accelerate more sophisticated high-tech industries, mainly in the Food-Tech sector. | T5.01 people are and will leave the region if they will not be able to find interesting jobs |
S5.02 A few industries, such as Shamir Optics, Netafim, BMC and Malinox, are very innovative and are marketing products all over the world. | W5.02 Once a person find a working place he will not easily change it even if he do not like his working place. | O5.02 There are several accelerators that are now developing in the region, and it may develop additional spin-offs. | T5.02 Competition between High-tech industries that already exist in the region can create shortage of workers. |
| W5.03 Jobs in the high-tech sector is very scare and difficult to get, especially for youngsters. | | |
6. Social and cultural aspects of rural areas | S6.01 Kibbutzim in the region have cultural activities and celebration of holiday, but this is locally. | W6.01 Few cultural activities except those concerning Tourism. | O6.01 There are opportunities connected to the special historical heritage of the region that could be developed. | |
7. Environment & Biodiversity | S7.01 High level, compared to all other Israeli regions, from environmental aspects and biodiversity. The region spread from -200m below Sea Level to +1200m above Sea Level. | | O7.01 The recent development in the Agamon Lake will attract many bird watchers from all over the world because of its uniqueness. | T7.01 If many people decide to settle in the Galilee it will affect the environment. |
| W7.02 Some parts of the region as becoming pollutant | | T7.02 Agriculture development, using more pesticides and herbicides could ruin the environmental special conditions and the water quality in the Kinnert Lake. |