ZOMG reln... You have drank the blue and white kool-aid alright.. "Every tech company" does not invest there. Wow, so Intel has one or two 90nm fab there (where people hand carry wafers around a clean room). They have fabs in AZ, but I don't see billions of dollars going toward reservations.

As far as the intel Inside (tm) I used to power my masterbastion videos on my computer.. I can't see much that was developed exclusively in Haifa other than the Centrino crap that got intergrate into the Pentium Ms (which eventually made it into Core Duo stuff). But really.. come on. No one ever said there weren't a bunch of smart engineers living there. A lot left for the promised land in the 70s and 80s. I don't understand why US govt has to provide money and weapons. They should pay for the weapons, and not allow Intel anymore tax credits.

Oh, and Intel is 13% of the "tech industry" exports from Israel so it can't be that booming of business. And just FYI with 5,000 Intel employees... that's smaller than each of IBM's plants in Vermont and New York. Also probably smaller than every Intel site except Ireland (which is probably mostly just package and test).