IAI, Israel’s major defense company, has opened a production line in Columbus, Ohio to supply UAVs to the US Department of Defense. Such technological transfer is not a normal practice: normal countries guard their know-how jealously, and only export complete products.
Worse, the Chairman of IAI’s Board of Directors announced during the opening ceremony that his company plans to transfer all its production to the United States, except the minimum required for Israeli defense needs.
It is time that the Israeli government refuse to allow sensitive technology to leave its borders. The members of the board room who espouse to do so should have their passports recinded. To allow non military or other sensitive information is to deny their own heritidge. Export yes, NO!!!