Business | Under fire

Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?

Its resilience is being tested

Israeli Air Force drone pilots stand beside a Hermes 900 unmanned aerial vehicle at Palmachim Airbase in Palmachim, Israel.
Can it keep flying?Photograph: Getty Images
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Soon after Hamas attacked on October 7th last year, around a third of workers at Elsight, an Israeli maker of drone communications systems, were called up to fight in Gaza. A similar exodus took place across Israel’s tech sector, which accounts for over half of the country’s exports, a fifth of GDP—and a fifth of the reservists in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

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This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Under fire”

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