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PROPERTY AND EQUIPMENT, NET (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Property, Plant and Equipment [Abstract] |
Schedule of Property and Equipment |
|  | As of December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Original cost: |  |  |  |  |  |
Buildings (including facility infrastructure) |  | $ | 343,247 |  |  | $ | 333,696 |
Machinery and equipment |  |  | 2,282,042 |  |  |  | 2,093,204 |
|  | $ | 2,625,289 |  |  | $ | 2,426,900 |
Accumulated depreciation: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Buildings (including facility infrastructure) |  | $ | (215,515 | ) |  | $ | (205,604 | )
Machinery and equipment |  |  | (1,774,650 | ) |  |  | (1,604,610 | )
|  | $ | (1,990,165 | ) |  | $ | (1,810,214 | )
|  | $ | 635,124 |  |  | $ | 616,686
Schedule of Leased Property Under Capital Leases | The following is the composition of the leased equipment under capital lease agreements included under “Machinery and equipment“ above:
|  | As of December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |
Original cost - Machinery and equipment |  | $ | 16,630 |  |  | $ | -- |
Accumulated depreciation - Machinery and equipment |  |  | (306 | ) |  |  | -- |
|  | $ | 16,324 |  |  | $ | -- |

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