Whilst neither IAI or Raffel are ideal considering IMI attracts different markets to the others it should not be put on the open market because once its in somebody elses hands. If its not government owned the Israeli government no longer has any say in what they want IMI to develop and of course with the company goes all its patents. What would happen if one of the US giants decided to buy it and IMI was producing a weapon system which was competing with a more expensive American version? All they need to do is kill off the IMI version end eliminate the competition. Now you want that type of weapon then you have to buy American. Buying companies to bury patents is not a new idea so it could very easily happen to IMI. Israel's arms industries even the biggest are to small to survive without government subsidy and the best solution is modernise and branch out into other areas and be merged with another government company.

Please explain how the Histadrut is involved.

They are no good for business and for Israel. They only care about certain unions and ignore the plight of other workers. If there are hundreds of unneeded workers, then fire them.Unproductive workers will destroy a company.Send them to be retrained or help them find other jobs.

KEEP GOVERMENT SUBSIDY GOING. WE DONT WANT FOREIGN COMPANY,S TO KNOW TO MUCH ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE AND WHAT WE DONT HAVE DANNY TAWIL