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Article: Israel in fourth place among defense exporters: Export Institute chairman David Arzi: Israeli companies will sign contracts worth $600-800 million during the Paris Air Show next week.
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- Globes
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- June 10, 2007
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Byline: Hadas Manor
Jun. 10--Israel is the world's fourth largest defense exporter, after the US, Russia, and France, and ahead of the UK. Israeli defense exports total $3.4 billion.
SIBAT -- Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Organization director-general Gen. (Ret.) Yosi Ben-Hanan says that Israel's defense exports to the US grew from $270 million in 1999 to $1.2 billion in 2006. He added that US supervision of Israeli defense exports has cost Israel $300 million over the past three years. Suspect Detection Systems Ltd. (SDS) chairman Giora Eiland, the former chairman of the National Security Council, added that the loss was smaller than ...