> US foreign aid isn't even 1% of their GDP I think a more apples to apples comparison would be the percentage of their governmental budget which was ~133B USD

> US foreign aid isn't even 1% of their GDP I think a more apples to apples comparison would be the percentage of their governmental budget which was ~133B USD in 2022 (making the 3.8B you cited ~3% of that) and IIUC (3.8B) represents ~15% of Israel's military spending (which given that it is already very high for their budget and GDP, will be difficult to increase otherwise). Though as other posters pointed out, the non financial support is also very important both in things like Anti-BDS (and opposing sanctions on Israel or similar negative ation) and in things like slowing down Iran's nuclear program. > And Israel seems to have no issue trading military equipment or creating mutually beneficial deals with Russia and China[2][3] I think there are two important things to be aware of here. First, Israel sells military equipment primarily to finance its own R&D and manufacture of weapons. In fact, US foreign aid is a partial driver for that here, since the aid money can only be used to purchase US equipment and in that sense Israeli weapons companies have a really tough time selling to Israel itself since they are competing with "free" and so have to supplement with foreign sales. In the other direction, taking away the aid would be to severe of a blow to Israel's military supplies that they can't afford to make deals that the US will disapprove of too much. There's also some unwritten rules between Israel and the US about what sorts of deals Israel can make. I'd go so far as to say that any deal you see Israel make in this space is one that the US at least doesn't really disapprove of (as otherwise the deal would not happen). The second thing is that Israel can't really afford to strain their relationship with Russia. Syria is a major military threat to Israel's existence and prosperity and Russia has tremendous influence over Syria. You may have heard of Israel bombing Iranian military units and bases in Syria and that can only happen "peacefully" thanks to collaboration with Russia. But that doesn't mean that a relationship with Russia could replace one with the US (much like Europian countries depending on Russian gas doesn't mean they'll leave NATO). On the relationship with China I actually don't really know that much, as it is not often discussed in the media (or outside of it really). Israel and the majority of Israeli citizens see Israel as a west-aligned Democracy, so I'd be surprised if the relationship with China became too close or went much beyond the utilitarian. Will be interesting to see where it develops.