https://www.jpost.com/international/article-691425



The Biden administration, like the Trump administration before it, has expressed major security concerns about Chinese investments in Israel in 5G Internet infrastructure and transportation.

By LAHAV HARKOV

JANUARY 3, 2022


Israel’s continued balancing act between its strategic relationship with the US and its economic relationship with China, its third-largest trade partner, is set to be one of its major foreign-policy challenges in 2022.

The security cabinet has been engaged in discussions about Israel’s next steps, amid an increasingly tense superpower competition between Washington and Beijing and continuing concern in the US about Chinese involvement in the Middle East. The Defense, Public Security and Foreign ministries have also been involved in the discussions.

Israel is on the American side if it has to choose a side and won’t fight with Washington over China, a senior diplomatic official said Monday, but it would prefer to stay under the radar so it does not lose business and investments from China.

In light of US warnings that Chinese investments could cause security breaches, Jerusalem has agreed in recent months to update Washington about any major deals with Beijing, especially in infrastructure and technology.

Israel would reconsider any such deals at America’s request, a senior diplomatic official said Monday.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/10-israelis-set-to-be-indicted-for-illegally-expor...




Drone entrepreneur Ephraim Menashe and 9 others to be charged for a range of crimes, including carrying out missile tests near residential neighborhoods
By ToI Staff 20 December 2021, 8:16 pm


The Financial Department of the State Prosecutor’s Office informed 10 individuals and three companies on Monday that they would be indicted on serious security offenses linked to selling missiles to China without approval.

According to the State Prosecutor’s Office, the deal in question was brokered by Ephraim Menashe, an Israeli drone entrepreneur and founder of the Solar Sky company, who then hired Tzvika and Ziv Naveh, owners of the Innocon drone company, and other unnamed suspects.

“The suspects were investigated as part of a large-scale security case in which it was suspected that they manufactured, brokered and exported cruise missiles for military use, without a permit,” said prosecutors.

The suspects will be summoned to a pre-indictment hearing before facing a range of charges, including security offenses, weapons offenses, money laundering, violating the Defense Export Control Law and more.

The Defense Ministry’s Defense Export Controls Agency (DECA), established in 2006, manages the export and licensing of all Israeli-made defense equipment and technologies, and relevant companies are required to apply for a permit before brokering any overseas deals.

Israel is home to some 1,600 licensed arms exporters, which employ 150,000 to 200,000 people. In addition, there is a large supply chain of subcontractors who supply software, hardware, raw materials, and other goods necessary for arms production.

DECA is supposed to watch over this massive system, guided by strict rules governing Israel’s arms export industry. The body, which operates with nearly no transparency, is supposed to vet deals to ensure that arms do not go to enemy countries, endanger Israel in any way, include classified technology, or stand to harm Israel’s international standing.




In the late 1990s and early 2000s,

So what can we deduce from this?

If the USA didn't give foreign aid to Israel -
Israel could easily make far more money by exporting its military technologies
to other countries like China.
The USA is sort of paying a ransom in order to have some control of Israel. 

https://www.quora.com/Does-US-foreign-aid-to-Israel-have-strings-attached

Mark Hyatt Tynan

BA in Political Science & Literature, University of California, San Diego (Graduated 1976)
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American military aid to Israel is complex. The American defense establishment views the 3.8 billion dollars allocated for military aid to be a bargain. As was explained elsewhere, it all has to be spent here in the United States on American Military systems and equipment. Along with systems and Equipment Israel receives the computer code. Israel is the only country in the whole world that receives American computer code the reason for this is Israel improves upon everything it purchases for the United States and then the United States receives those improvements as a part of the deal. Israel also receives the data gathered from using this equipment in real situations. When Israel sends Jets over Syria and avoids Russian defense systems then the United States receives that data. When American missiles get through Syrian defenses which are really rushing defenses then the United States gets that data. There is a lot of discussion regarding Iron Dome which was developed by Israel but they came a joint program between Israel and the United States. I do not know exactly how it works but there have been Iron Dome installations that did not cost Israel anything and then there were Iron Dome installations that Israel had to pay something for. United States also has a license to sell Iron Dome to other countries. As was pointed out elsewhere, Iron Dome will soon be replaced by Iron beam which is being prepared for deployment now. Iron beam has two distinct advantages over Iron Dome. The first is it is far less expensive to operate and it destroys its Target much closer to the launch point and turn debris into a weapon against the people firing the projectile. There is a lot more that goes into the give and take of American military aid to Israel. Israel is incorporating Iron Dome into the American military defense array. Is really pilots, acting as Russian Pilots, engage American pilots and dogfights in Southern Arizona. Israel hardened American electronic communications both in individual systems and generally. This was a part of the military aid deal. Every time I stop I remember more. I always remember things I cannot discuss. I hope that now anyone reading this understands that American military aid to Israel is not just to put money into the pockets of the American defense establishment business.

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