Archive for Israel
New Video On Israeli Innovation
This one quotes a couple of interesting factoids: Israel invests 5% of its GDP into R&D, more than double that of any other OECD country Israel has the 3rd largest VC community in the world (warning: preceded by advertisement)
Read moreEconomist Yossi Hollander on Israel’s Quest for Alternative Energy
As a follow up to our last blog posting about the Israeli government’s ambitious initiative to fund development of alternative energy resources, we add this interesting observation/prediction by economist Yossi Hollander, who sits on the executive board of the Weizmann Institute of Science: “The government [recently] passed a decision to develop oil substitutes,” Hollander says. [...]
Read moreGreat Video About Innovation in Israel
AIPAC did a great job putting this together (length 4:42).
Read moreLunch with George Gilder, Author of The Israel Test
Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a “brown bag lunch” at downtown Seattle’s Discovery Institute for a talk by one of its most distinguished Senior Fellows, George Gilder. The discussion focused on Mr. Gilder’s recent trip to Israel which comes upon the heels of his latest book, The Israel Test. I’m pleased to report [...]
Read moreSpotlight on Israeli Innovation: Pumping Water Out of Thin Air
In ancient times at the start of Passover and the beginning of the dry season, the Jewish people would appeal for God to open his “heavenly stores of dew” with a special prayer called “tefillat tal“. In modern times, a company called EWA Tech has answered these prayers with a brilliant technology that pumps water [...]
Read more2010: The Year We Made Contracts
In 2010, Arthur C. Clarke’s sequel to the classic 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the Soviet Union still exists, astronauts are orbiting Jupiter, and Earthlings encounter extraterrestrial life. Well it’s 2010, the Soviet Union is long gone, we still haven’t made it past the moon, and the closest we’ve come to bumping into ET [...]
Read moreTo Infinity & Beyond
It will likely come as a surprise to many people that little Israel was recently ranked the world’s #2 country in space sciences based upon a combination of papers published and cited. It’s quite possible that Israel would’ve been ranked #1, but Dan Blumberg, head of the department of geography and environmental development at Ben-Gurion [...]
Read moreIsrael: Shiny Happy People?
Last month, two unrelated stories came out in close enough proximity to overlap each other in interesting juxtaposition. In one story, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a new branding initiative for the entire country. Ido Aharoni, the head of the Ministry’s “Brand Israel” project announced that “Creative Energy” is the “prism through which [...]
Read more“Think what we could do if the world were not against us.”
“…a success story, which other Arabs should learn from.”
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