Israel’s PM says intelligence and big data necessary for

security
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that intelligence, big data and defence
preparedness were necessary to ensure national security.

 Inaugurating the third annual Raisina Dialogue of the External Affairs Ministry, the visiting Israeli
leader said he represented a special country that produced solutions to challenges, and urged
stronger partnership between India and Israel by attacking bureaucratic bottleneck with an “axe”.

 “A simple lesson in our turbulent lesson is this, that the weak don’t survive. The strong survive. You
make peace with the strong. Make alliance with the strong. You are able to maintain peace by
being strong.

 Therefore, the first requirement of Israel from the time of our first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion
was to achieve maximum strength to assure our existence,” Mr. Netanyahu said.

 “I like soft power, but hard power is often better,” he said explaining that submarines,
cybercapabilities, science and technology, interceptors were part of the security necessities to
“ensuring security for countries in the present-day world”.

 “The economic growth of the 21st century will emerge along the ‘confluence’ of big data,
connectivity and artificial intelligence,” he said explaining that the future belonged to those
countries who innovated along these three pillars. Mr. Netanyahu said economic, military and
political powers were supplemented by the special power of values.

 He also urged India to open up its economy by removing bottlenecks to fast growth and start ups.
“If you want to have economic power, you must reduce taxes and you must cut bureaucracy.
Government can facilitate economic growth, and government can also stop economic growth.

 A main job of the leaders of India and Israel is to reduce the role of bureaucracy by cutting it with a
machete, or an axe,” he said.