‘Nobody Thought It Would Come to This’: Drug Maker Teva Faces a Crisis<br />Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement<br />that he would urge the company to "retain its Israeli identity," words that seemed to mollify no one.<br />He insisted that Teva’s soul and brain remain in Israel, even as the company built factories and hired thousands of workers around the world.<br />He described this and other measures as "painful but absolutely vital," and he added<br />that it was "designed solely to achieve our shared aspirations to sustain Teva as a strong global company, managed out of and based in Israel." This is a crushing moment for a company that has been the pride of Israel for decades.<br />Mr. Netanyahu agreed and said that the government would use "various means at our disposal" to urge the company to keep its plants in Jerusalem open.<br />" Eli Hurvitz, who retired as Teva’s chief executive in 2002 after more than 25 years at the helm, said in 2004.<br />that I used to say that we should thank God for bringing us the Arab boycott,<br />A meeting on Dec. 19 with Kare Schultz, Teva’s recently hired chief executive, yielded little more than a curt statement from the<br />prime minister’s office announcing plans for studying ways to provide fired workers with training and to help them find new jobs.
