PM says he will build up Israel’s domestic arms industry, turn country into an AI superpower

After facing weapons embargoes that he says slowed Israel’s progress in the war, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is advancing the country’s domestic arms industry.

“We will have to invest more in our national security,” he says.

He also boasts about his National Artificial Intelligence Directorate, and that Israel will become an AI power in much the same way it has become a cyber power.

He boasts that ties with the US have never been as close as they are now, including personal ties between him and US President Donald Trump, and says that he will talk to US Vice President JD Vance tomorrow about two things — “the security challenges facing us, and the diplomatic opportunities facing us.”

Netanyahu says that in the new Knesset session, the government will pass a bill to draft 10,000 Haredim into the military within two years.

“There are many more of enlistment age who aren’t Haredim, and they also have to enlist,” he says, without specifying who those individuals are.

He concludes with a promise that Israel “will win,” as coalition MKs give him a standing ovation.