that money is spent mostly in the US to employ US persons making defense articles or in Israel making defense articles in which the US has a technology sharing interest.
The various congressional delegations have interest in keeping the F35, F15, and F16 lines going, and we certainly benefit by having access to Iron Dome technology. Its not
all one way..
So in essence government subsidized employees to generate a product destined for another country that is in effect a hand out?