It might be instructive to note this tidbit from the article, before getting too wrapped around the axle about the FAA:
An Israeli air panel came to the same conclusion just a year ago, but no changes were implemented.
Another article has this to say:
The panel's final report criticized the infrastructure at Ben Gurion International Airport, legislation pertaining to the matter, and air traffic control systems, adding that Israel has not fully seen the technological developments of the last decades in the field of air traffic control. They called to increase supervision on air traffic control systems, and to better train the controllers, many of whom do not always speak in English or use the proper terminology.
It's far more likely that this is about ATC than anything else. And while the US equipment is antiquated, the system in the US is the most mature in the world. Having a dual use airspace (and arguably, the entire country of Israel's airspace is dual use, owing to it's defense situation) with controllers who are not speaking english and/or using ICAO terminology
is a safety hazard.