His career since leaving the air force has been in business rather than politics, but Yair Shamir, the chairman of Israel Aerospace Industries (iai), is a chip off the old block. Not only is he a dead ringer for his famous father-Yitzhak Shamir, an uncompromising Israeli prime minister in the 1980s and early 1990s-he is a similarly tough operator. When Mr Shamir, an important figure in Israel's booming high-technology business, took on the job of sorting out his country's biggest industrial company in 2005, state-owned iai was in a wretched condition.
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