Investment as a share of GDP in Israel is low by international comparison, despite the fact that national savings is not low, as we showed in the Bank of Israel Annual Report for 2016. Therefore, not only are we not close the gap in capital per worker relative to other economies, the gap is even growing.
By the way, the investments that increased in 2016 were mainly in residential construction and in the electronic components industry, but not in the other industries, such that the increase in investments made a relatively small contribution to a broad increase in 3/4  BIS central bankers' speeches  production capacity.