The industrial sector is concentrated in engineering, aircraft, electronics, chemicals, construction materials, textiles and food-processing.
Mining is also small but is set to expand, with production of potash and bromine.
There is a small indigenous oil industry. The infrastructure is well developed and tourism, in which there has been considerable investment, has become an important sector of the economy. The economy has performed relatively well during the 1990s in the wake of economic reforms introduced at the beginning of the decade and including deregulation and some privatisation. This has been despite opposition from the Histadrut , Israel's powerful trades union movement. Trade with both South Asia and the Asia-Pacific region is also growing rapidly.