Israel is buying more defense materiel and equipment abroad.
Defense imports nearly doubled in 1987, after a 35 percent decline in 1986, according to figures made public here Friday.
Overall defense expenditures rose to 20 percent of Israel’s gross national product in 1987, compared to 16 percent in 1986. They include wages and local expenditures as well as defense imports.
The proportion, however, was lower than the 22 percent of the GNP consumed by defense expenditures in the 1984-85 period, the new Israel Statistical Abstract for 1988 revealed.
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