you know, i was making decisions in millions of ashlee: the idf dollars. s like a never-ending networking event. the first question at a cocktail party is, what unit were you? -- what unit you served in? these ties have led to is really dominating the market. what makes israel so well-suited to startups and technology? shlomo: there is always an infusion of new talent from the idf, and with the infusion of talent, you have people who can create a startup nation. ashlee: shlomo has invested in dozens of israeli companies. to see the extreme end of what the idf can inspire, i have gone to a small beach town and tech of that brushes up against tel aviv. it is here that space pharma has set out to make some interstellar drugs. >> if humanity would like to move out of earth, they must learn the microgravity conditions in order to survive on their way to mars and to other places. ashlee: the ceo used to head the idf satellite program. then he and his comrades hit on a big, possibly profitable idea. they assembled some space software and science experts and set to

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a knife attack, the soldier's attorney says the soldier feared for his life, but an assessment by the idfound that the wounded man posed no apparent threat when the shooting took place. what then happened was the series of political events that ended with the firing of the defense minister and seemingly with some top military officials criticizing the government. what is going on? is there a -- the way it's been portrayed is that the military, the generals in israel feel that the government has become too kind of aggressive in its -- in its use of anti-counterterrorism and is willing to violate basic military protocol? >> judging from the video, it seems clear that the soldier who killed that palestinian assailant pretty much in cold blood, he faces charges of manslaughter and up to 20 years in prison. and if what the video seems to show proves to be the case, i think he should serve a very heavy sentence, that is one issue. and this issue was taken up by a number of politicians, including the new defense minister, saying hey, this palestinian was trying to kill one of our boys and essent

the region. step which isone a controversial issue. if you ask most israelis, they idf will you that state in jordan. claim know many will occupation has never ended. if we invent a system of , we would be able to support an effective counter of terrorism internally by giving a strong palestinian force that cannot post any threat to the state of israel but can be very effective internally supported by the u.s., supported by others, supported by israel, supported by a system of intelligence and sharing information. will enable that palestinians to present tourism in the region. we leave the jordan valley and i thek, as i said before, palestinians have proved when they want to fight, they can do it. we pass responsibility to palestiniansd [inaudible] the cooperation between us and the palestinians to transfer even the most sensitive intelligence for us to take action, i take all of these together, the coordination we oneady have on the ground issue we have to talk about is gaza. how do you solve the problem with is a? gaza will have to meet certain today is part of the pr

shamni: most israelis over like to see the idf it. but i think it is impossible to do it into achieve peace agreement with the palestinians. by the way, we had the same dilemma in the past with the corridor, the border between gaza and egypt, a very short corridor. very short, but still, a lot of problems. i commanded the division of gaza in the height of the conflict with the palestinians and with hamas in 2003, 2004. hamas was producing rockets, ied's, everything. after the that disengagement from gaza and while egyptians did not pay enough attention to the border, bring a munition and knowledge -- bring ammunition and knowledge and bring people to train others. it is true, but still. if i looked at the situation in 2004, and in was in gaza, it could have been much worse had we stayed in the corridor, much worse than it is today. why if someone does not understand military issues or strategy, you know, it caused a big dilemma. by the way, he already decided to hold elections in jerusalem, and in those elections, hamas won. hs., aren'

as well, you see this with -- in israel where their -- when they were brought into the idf as a compulsory service, they were able to leverage that to gain equal citizenship rights that they previously had been denied. so why i talk about this a little bit is to think about really the role of women in this country, and when you think about women in america, like you think a lot about equal rights and oh, they're equal citizens, there's no real barriers to their political participation, no barriers to their economic participation. however, if you kind of pull back the lens and you look a little more big picture, the inability for women to serve in an equal capacity to men provides an intangible barrier to citizenship. it provides a more or less second class citizenry where you have even those women who have chosen to serve, their service is somehow looked at as a little less, not as you weren't a real soldier or a real marine because you didn't go into combat, you didn't have ground combat, and now you're seeing it with this legal restriction being in place that it has really denied a lot o

coalition partners, including benjamin netanyahu, have come out for the soldier himself, shown support for him. and there is a high level idfer suggesting now the atmosphere in israel is similar to the atmosphere in germany in the 1930's. that did not go down well with benjamin netanyahu and much of the coalition. he defended the right of the office to defend himself. there has been growing tension. looks like this right-wing coalition is coming more right-wing, manus. manus: elliott gotkine, with the latest from tel aviv. coming up, the fed move the markets. last week, with the june rate hike looking more likely, what is work? only one place to find out. this lady, her name is janet yellen, and she speaks this week. who else is on the fed plate? ♪ manus: this is bloomberg markets middle east. it is just over one hour away from the start of the trading day in the region. but the fed moved the markets last week. how was that going to play out in markets over the next five days? tracy alloway is here with me. looking at the fed events. making for a very interesting week. two major fed governors set the minutes. tracy: you tho