Mideast Dispatch Archive – February 2017: How Israel’s tech firms are quietly doing business in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states | Tom Gross

* The Saudis and other oil-rich Arab states are only too happy to pay for Israeli help. “The Arab boycott? It doesn’t exist.”
* “From 2007 through 2015, an Israeli company called AGT International, based in Zurich, installed thousands of cameras, sensors, and license-plate readers along the U.A.E.’s 620-mile international border and throughout Abu Dhabi. AGT’s artificial intelligence platform, code-named Wisdom, analyzed images and data from the devices.