Motorola has sold a controversial unit that produced bomb fuses and other equipment for the Israeli military...The sale rids Motorola of some activities that had made it the target of a growing boycott...No explanation was offered in the media reports for the sale by Motorola Israel - a wholly owned subsidiary of Motorola - of its unit called Government Electronics Department (GED) to the Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems Ltd. The sale came just days after a March 30 protest in Brooklyn by The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel (NYCBI)...Ryvka Bar Zohar from NYCBI commented, "We are heartened that Motorola has eliminated at least its production of bomb fuses for bombs that Israel dropped on the Palestinian and Lebanese people..."...Previously, Motorola had been the target of a successful boycott campaign for its support of the government of apartheid South Africa.