Israel is a pretty good ally from an intelligence standpoint. For instance stuxnet the virus that crippled the Iranian nuclear program was partially developed by Israeli intelligence.
Not just the military industrial complex either a lot of US companies have gone hard into the manufacturing sector in Israel. Intel has one of their high end fabs there and I see a lot of random shit in stores that was made in Israel these days.
I work in retail, but my homelab isn’t super extensive just a nas, a Plex server, and a couple proxmox boxes.
Closet I’ve ever come to being in IT was back when I was still in college and took some a networking class and some web development classes but that was many moons ago.