How Israel’s Leading Defender Is Handing Them Influence Over Texas Technology...

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who calls himself Israel’s leading defender in the Senate, is cheering a growing partnership that has already brought $3.2 billion in Israeli investment into the state. Now that money is flowing into AI, cybersecurity, defense, water, and agriculture — some of the most critical technologies shaping Texas’s future. But Cruz has also admitted that Israel “probably” spies on the United States. So how much influence should a foreign country — and its companies — have over the systems that could affect Texas for decades? Who controls the tech? What data is shared? What safeguards are actually in place? Texans deserve those answers before the deals get any deeper.