What was considered an advantage of Israeli inventiveness and determination a decade ago has turned into a disadvantage of Israeli aggression and recklessness. From a successful state and a role model in innovation, we have turned into an outcast country due to our nationalism and aggression.

The Israeli stents will be replaced with American stents, the Israeli chips will be replaced with Korean and Chinese chips, and the Waze map will be replaced with the Microsoft map.

The advantage of Israeli innovation is much more important to us Israelis as exporters than to the world as a consumer. This is the innovation which can lead to an increase in our export abilities by tens of billions of shekels a year and serve as a budget increment which will provide a solution for the cost of living, medicine and education problems. On the personal level of a family in the lowest echelon, the part dedicated to welfare will amount to thousands of shekels a year.

But there's a fly in the ointment (on in Bennett's case, shrapnel in the rear end): In order to realize this potential, we need a market which will want to buy our innovative merchandise. Such a market will not develop, and it is even shutting up, as the world's response to the ongoing occupation and conflict.