When article 50 is triggered in the coming days, the UK will be only two years away from negotiating its own trade deals. After talks in No 10 last month, Theresa May and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a joint working group charged with “preparing the ground” for a trade deal. Quarrey says: “We’re seeing trading bilateral relationships between the UK and Israel, in science and trade for example, doing better than ever. James Sorene, the chief executive at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre, says “the first priority will be to establish what preferential trade terms the UK is prepared to offer”. Coupled with more relaxed immigration rules, Atzmon says this would ensure Israeli tech firms will come to a UK where tech “knowledge is not overflowing outside of London”.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2017 15:56 UTC