Netanyahu Says Tech Entrepreneurs Will Lose If They Leave Israel

  • Prime minister faces range of opposition to judicial overhaul
  • Says he’s confident ‘smart money’ will stick with Israel

Benjamin Netanyahu

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said any tech entrepreneurs who withdraw from Israel out of opposition to his judicial plans will lose out because the country remains “a safe place” to do business.

“I’m not worried, because Israel is a fount of technology, is a fount of innovation,” Netanyahu said in an interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” broadcast Sunday. “Some of them who said they’d moved the money out lost the money.”