I would say to Americans, please don't think that, oh, we do so much for Israel.

Also understand, Israel does a lot for us.

They innovate and create things that we end up seeing scaled up to a marketable level.

If people in America enjoy their cell phone, thank Israel for it.

They wouldn't have one unless the technology that originally came from the SIM cards and some of the original technology they became the cell phone developed here.

If you have a loved one that has had a cardiac procedure that maybe save their life with a stent

or with certain robotic procedures, be grateful to Israel because it was innovated here.

And then some things that are just

pleasures. If you like a cherry tomato or a seedless watermelon, guess where that came from. It came

here. Drip irrigation. Drip irrigation that transformed this land into a lush place with vegetables and

fruits growing in places. It used to be nothing but desert. But then there are practical things,

the innovations that have come from everything,

from navigation systems that we take for granted

and assume that, well, that just happened,

to the extraordinary level of defense mechanisms

that keep us safe, whether it's a home security system.

There are so many ways.

They call this a startup nation for a reason,

but Israel, as a small country,

depends upon the U.S. to take an innovation and a creation,

to put it in the marketplace

so that it's scaled up to a market of 330 million people.

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