It's debatable. "Startup Nation" is an excellent PR book, but nothing more. For the real state of affair read "Hummus Manifesto" [1]. The fact is, that Jewish

It's debatable. "Startup Nation" is an excellent PR book, but nothing more. For the real state of affair read "Hummus Manifesto" [1]. The fact is, that Jewish peers outside Israel has more success, than in Israel. It can easily be explained by the fact that they didn't wasted 3 most productive years of their lives to the army service. The Jewish population in Israel is more a less of the same size as Jewish population in US. Yet Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Mark Zuckerberg were generated not in Israel, but in US. If their families had immigrated to Israel and they had spent 3 years in the IDF, I doubt Google and Facebook existed today. [1] http://sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com/2010/07/hummus-manifesto-part-1.html http://sixkidsandafulltimejob.blogspot.com/2010/07/hummus-ma...