Business | Under fire

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

Its resilience is being tested

Tech workers sit at their desks in an office in Israel.
Photograph: Panos

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 mighty 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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