Ever since taking office...President Shimon Peres has consistently advocated integrating haredim and Arabs into the Israeli workforce, especially hitech industries...There are many academically qualified members of the Arab community who would prove to be a real boon to Israel’s hi-tech industries, Peres has said, but there has been a general reluctance to employ them...Peres, accompanied by about a dozen company executives...visited the predominantly haredi city of Elad, to...discuss creating new job opportunities for haredim...Peres launched a new initiative that will enable more Arabs to find jobs in Jewish-owned hi-tech companies...a trilingual portal (www.maantech.org.il)...operated by Manpower...[refers to positive initiatives by Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Tower Jazz, SAP, IBM, CA Technologies, Nice Systems]