Peres is and was a disgrace for Israel

That was a killing ordered by the United States Government and done by their Israeli servants, the Labour Party. At the same time they crushed any competitions to their warplanes and secured the continued submission of the State of Israel to their mandates.

Peres nose is so deep in the Americans hind side all along his career that is hard to know the depth and information transfer during all those many years of his relationship with the Americans

A man against his own country then and now. How he has bend to appease the US and cut Israel short. Very sad for Israel. We have the technology to build the best aircraft in the world, and put people to work.

If the Attorney General can investigate dubious business dealings concerning Hirsch, couldn't the same Attorney General investigate eventual dubious behavior concerning Peres' manipulations in the LAVI affair ???

Instead of developing an aircraft that best meets the ACTUAL combat conditions in Israel's neighborhood, Israel has chosen to spent hundreds of billions on he extremely complex and very unreliable F-35. WHY? Contrast that with Iran that has chosen much simpler, less expensive aircraft and thousands of low cost, reasonably accurate missiles. for the cost of ONE F-35, Iran can make thousands of missiles.

to this day israel is dependent on the us as a result of that decision.

... costly endeavor. The US can barely pay for its own F-35 jet fighters on order today. And Israel could barely afford the Lavi 30 yrs ago... and cannot even dream of producing a current state-of-the art manned aircraft today. The Cabinet unquestionably made the correct decision. Actually the problem was not the cancellation... but the original decision to INITIATE the project: it should never have occurred. Never hired 1,000's of workers to begin with... All of the above may have parallels to the settlement movement, role of the US - and its potential cancellation... If so, that policy is likewise misguided, doomed to failure - and should have never been initiated to begin with!

perfectly good fighters that cost a LOT LESS than the American F-35. Israel is perfectly capable of making a usable defensive fighter for a lot less than the F-35. Both Israel and the USA are deeply ill with the "big penis" war toy disease where the warrior egos feel wounded if they don't have the most expensive, shiniest war toy to play with. Technology is so inexpensive these days there is zero need to have the most expensive complex war toy possible when a much less expensive war toy will function just fine. It is time to whack the warrior egos and use less expansive war toys. And yes, I really do know this stuff - some of my patents are in the war toys.

How did Israel manage to built the "KFIR", a copy of the "MIRAGE", while being under French boycott? I'm afraid your post doesn't make sense!

While I love to cheer for the under dog, the Lavi was never realistic. It was an F16 clone essentially except less so. It would have consumed a disproportionate amount of the IDF budget and a disproportionate amount of Israel's limited technical resources. Grippen is a bit of a stretch for Sweeden and Lavi would have been too much of a stretch for Israel. Great piece of kit, but a plane in search of a mission.