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For Israeli Students, Economy is Top Concern

By Robert Siegel
Published February 24, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST
From left, Tel Aviv University students Adi Weinberg, Liron Zaidan, Anat Confortes and Boaz Toporovsky.
Julia Buckley, NPR
From left, Tel Aviv University students Adi Weinberg, Liron Zaidan, Anat Confortes and Boaz Toporovsky.

Robert Siegel sits down with a group of students from Tel Aviv University for a conversation about their expectations for the future.

The students, who plan careers in accounting, law, economics or political science, are politically divided. But they agree that their main concern, even more than security, is the Israeli economy.

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Robert Siegel
Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.