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The chances of Israeli science competing with big American science are small. For almost 15 years, we had no competition.

For Israel to retain its amazing position as the largest concentration of high tech after Silicon Valley, we need more engineers and mathematicians. We have too many lawyers.

My academic specialization is Arab-Israel relations.

The United States provides Israel with crucial security and economic aid and invaluable political backing in the international arena.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

A bloc of states is emerging that understands that they may have been wrong to think that Israel is the world's greatest problem.

The fundamental interest - long-range strategic interest - of the state of Israel is that we will have the international bodies and primarily the United Nations recognize the two-state solution, so that there will never be any doubt as to the right of Israel to have its own Jewish independent state.

It is hard to find a country friendlier to Israel than Canada these days. No other country in the world has demonstrated such a full understanding of us.

I've been impressed, obviously, with what Israel has done over the years, as it related to technology, agriculture, research in general.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.