I agree[1] with "most of those in the Tel Aviv startup scene are probably at least 2nd generation seculars or more." When I was in Israel there were quite a fe

I agree[1] with "most of those in the Tel Aviv startup scene are probably at least 2nd generation seculars or more." When I was in Israel there were quite a few flavours of Israeli securalism. There is quite a strong communist sentiment here, a neo-agrarian sentiment there. Non jewish stuff abounds with a lot of Humanism and the ultimate fence sitting home base of Bahá'í Faith[2] ------------ [1] I don't esp agree with the first statement. The scolasticism you describe seems to be referring to Hasidic-Yeshiva type Jewish Education. My personal Jewish upbringing was quite removed from that, but theres so few of us we also know the Yeshiva types well. From my experience of that style I would say that Yeshivites would yield less of the top rolecall that seems to be the evidence trotted out by this article. [2] Based in Haifa http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Faith