Israel has conducted an aggressive campaign of economic espionage in t
he United States since 1948 This campaign has been critical to sustain
ing and modernizing Israel's nuclear weapons program and an array of i
ts most advanced conventional weapons even while it has caused America
n firms to lose valuable proprietary information and unfairly advantag
ed Israeli companies in the international arms market. While other cou
ntries conduct economic espionage against the United States, Israel is
the only, major recipient of U.S. foreign aid to do so.