Intel has been in Israel since 1974. Intel Fab 8 was built in 1980 in Jerusalem... There's over 30,000 chip engineers and nearly 200 semiconductor companies there, now.

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DiabloD3 5 days ago | parent [-]

AIPAC was founded in 1954.

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FuriouslyAdrift 5 days ago | parent [-]

Intel came to Israel mostly because Dov Frohman (one of Intels first employees who had worked with all the founders at Fairchild and also the inventor of EPROMs) pushed to establish an Intel dev center there when he moved back home.

At the time, EPROM tech was Intels most profitble product until the 8088 and 8087, which were designed in Israel at the dev center (along with many of their chip designs).

	▲	DiabloD3 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yep, Dov Frohman's contribution to tech is well known and very appreciated. Edit: Look, to whoever is out there on a downvote spree, I don't care if I get downvoted, man, but wild you'd just downvote people talking about a guy whose won multiple IEEE awards, has patents to his name, and has left his mark on EE, and isn't even the focus of the discussion at hand.