Israel is the fourth largest arms exporter in the world, generating as much as $7 billion in revenue in 2012. Israeli filmmaker Yotam Feldman says that everyone likes to talk about Israel’s economic miracle, its “growth and prosperity despite military conflicts,” but he wonders if the growth isn’t despite the conflicts but because of them. Feldman points a chilling lens at his country’s defense industry, which employs and enriches hundreds of thousands of people and trains military officers, policemen, and private security officers from dozens of countries who come to Israel to buy arms. Israeli military strategists, philosophers, entrepreneurs, trainers, and retired army officers-cum-arms developers candidly turn to the camera and with all candor articulate their positions. “What’s a laboratory? An opportunity to learn.” “The Lab” is the contemporary urban battlefield in the West Bank and Gaza, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, and perhaps soon, an inner city near you.  CRE