אלבום חברות התעשייה וההיי-טק המובילות בישראל

infrastructure and knowledge. This import is not good for us; It directly harms the strategic strength of the State of Israel. We like to call ourselves the “Start-up Nation”, due to the central place that the high-tech industry occupies in the Israeli economy. However, the way these start-ups operate requires a change of direction. In today’s reality, start-ups revolve around developing an idea, often brilliant - and once the idea is maturing, it is sold to some international company at a high price, to make a profitable “exit” to the partners who founded it and invested in it. To me, this is an unhealthy conduct. What are we doing here, actually? We sell the world our best inventions, our brightest creative ideas, our vast knowledge, and the Israeli ingenuity, and allow someone else to enjoy their fruits, because the production goes abroad. The result: we, as a country, receive a very respectable production capacity was common to all presidents of the association for generations, be it “Booma” Shavit, Eli Horowitz or Dov Lautman who passed away, or Dan Proper, Oded Tira, Zvika Oren and Shraga Brosh, may they be blessed with longevity, and many others. Everyone understood the importance of industry for the strength of the State of Israel, both economically and socially, but it is true also for its military strength - without adequate revenues it is impossible to build a strong IDF; these are intertwined tools. Protected it from deterioration and in fact, against the background of the general global crisis, Israel emerged strengthened and it occupies today a much more significant place among the nations. In recent years, before Covid-19, we have lost some of these insights. We have started to rely on cheap imports from various countries, blinded by the low price and abandon the future: closing factories and losing Dr. Ron Tomer. “Israeli industry’s contribution to Israel’s economic resilience is several times higher than any exit”