[BBC News] Julie Ball - Israel's hi-tech industry contributes around 7% to the country's GDP. "The two real fathers of Israeli hi-tech are the Arab boycott and Charles de Gaulle, because they forced on us the need to go and develop an industry," says Yossi Vardi, known as the godfather of Israeli hi-tech, recalling the 1967 French arms embargo.
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