The Ministry of Industry and Trade initiates the creation of new industrial zones based on geographically related national policy and bears complete responsibility for their establishment, from emplacement of infrastructure through marketing commercial space to the businessmen. Industrial zones provide considerable commercial tax income, a crucial counterbalancing factor for less affluent communities with relatively low residential property tax income. The additional income makes possible many basic services that would otherwise be under-funded, particularly social welfare and education. This chapter provides detailed data from the Ministry of Industry and Trade demonstrating that Arab localities receive only a very small share of this resource, despite their much greater need for it.