"The Golden Age of Achievement Jewish"
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The Jews are a famously accompli. They make 0.2% of world population, but 54% of world chess champions, 27% of Nobel Prizes for Physics and 31% of Nobel Prizes. 
The Jews account for 2% of the U.S. population, but 21% of the student bodies of most prestigious universities, 26% of those honored by the Kennedy Center, 37% of the winning directors of the Academy Awards, 38% of those in a recent Business Week list of the leading philanthropists, 51% of Award winners Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction.
In his book, "The Golden Age of Jewish accomplishment," Steven L. Pease lists some of the explanations people have given this record of achievement. The Jewish faith encourages a belief in progress and personal responsibility. It is based on learning, not in the rite.
Most Jews surrendered or were forced to deliver the crop in the Middle Ages, their descendants have been living on his mind since then. They often have migrated, with the ambition and management of an immigrant. They have gathered through global crossroads and have benefited from the creative tension endemic in such places.
No explanation can account for the registration of Jewish achievements. The strange thing is that Israel has not traditionally been strong where the Jews of the Diaspora were stronger. Instead of research and commerce, the Israelis were forced to devote their energy to combat and politics.
Milton Friedman used to joke that Israel refuted all
Jewish stereotypes. People used to think that the Jews were good cooks
, good and bad economic managers soldiers, Israel proved that they were wrong.
But that has changed. The economic reforms of Benjamin Netanyahu, the arrival of a million Russian immigrants and stagnation of the peace process have produced a historic shift.
Israelis are more resourceful entering the technology and trade, not politics. This has had a disjointed effect on public life of the nation, but an invigorating on its economy.
Tel Aviv has become one of the main entrepreneurs in the world. Israel has more high-tech Emprendimentos per capita than any other nation on earth by far. Leads the world in spending on civilian research and development per capita.
Figure second behind the U.S. in the number of registered companies in the Nasdaq. Israel, with seven million people, attracts investment capital as France and Germany combined.
As Dan Senor and Saul Singer writes in "National Project: The Story of the economic miracle of Israel," Israel now has a classical group of innovation, a place where technology obsessive work in close proximity and a feed of the ideas of others.
Due to the strength of the economy, Israel has weathered the global slowdown reasonably well. The government had no emergency to save their banks or initiate an explosion in spending in the short term. On the other hand, used the crisis to solidify the long-term future of the economy by investing in research and development and infrastructure, bringing some excise taxes, promising to cut taxes in the medium and long term. Barclays analysts write that Israel is "the strongest recovery story" in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Israel's technological success is the realization of the Zionist dream. The 161s pa was not founded for lost colonists could sit in the middle of thousands of angry Palestinians in Hebron. It was founded for Jews to have a safe place to come together and create things for the world.
This shift in Israeli identity has long-term. Netanyahu preaches the optimistic view: that Israel will become the Hong Kong of the Middle East, with economic benefits spilling over the Arab world. And indeed, no trace of evidence to support that point of view in places like the West Bank and Jordan.
But it is more probable that the economic leap forward of Israel extended the gap between it and its neighbors. All countries in the region talk about encouraging innovation. Some oil-rich states spend billions trying to build science centers. But places like Silicon Valley and Tel Aviv are created by a confluence of cultural forces, not money.
surrounding nations have no tradition of free cultural exchange and creative technique.
For example, between 1980 and 2000, the Egyptians recorded 77 patents in the U.S., the Saudis and the Israelis showed 171 recorded 7652.
The technological explosion also creates a new vulnerability.
As Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic has argued, these innovators are the most mobile people on earth. To destroy the economy of Israel, Iran does not need to actually have to throw a nuclear weapon in the country. Just enough instability to encourage entrepreneurs to decide that they better move to Palo Alto, where many of them already have contacts and houses. American Jews used to keep one foot in Israel in case things got bad here. Now the Israelis kept a foot in the U.S..
During a decade of gloomy foreboding, Israel has become an amazing success story, but also in a highly mobile.
Source: The New York Times
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