FYI, Coyote.At the present time, companies are flooding into Israel and Texas, the worlds leading Industrial and Technology giants.All the major high tech companies are setting up shop in Israel today, there is no drain. Israel's economy has also been surprisingly resilient and strong in the face of years of worldwide recession and depression.
Iran on the other hand is collapsing under the pressure of international sanctions, all because it wants to acquire nuclear weapons to aim at Israel and Saudi Arabia. That's where the drain occurs.
The article wasn't referring to the business climate but to higher education and scientific research- what produces Nobel Prize winners.
Five Nobel Laureates and 16 Academy of Sciences members work at Dallas-Fort Worth institutions.
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