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Contrary to what cq might wish to portray, Israel is by and large a fair society to live in. There's a reason that 20% of the population are Arabs who choose to stay in Israel instead of living in one of the surrounding countries.
> There's a reason that 20% of the population are Arabs who choose to stay in Israel Because they'd like to return to their homes one day?
Israel has extreme human rights issues they need to deal with before I'll consider doing business with them. The Israeli government insists on continuing to settle its citizens onto Palestinian territory, driving local Palestinians off their land. As long as settlements continue, businesses should not look to Israel as a country to work with.
You know, there's a term for holding Jews to moral standards no other nation on earth is subjected to.
And as far as 'extreme human rights issues' are concerned - in the Palestinian National Authority, the freedom to criticize the government is a sham, journalists are regularly killed by governmental authorities, selling land to Jews is a crime punishable by death, there's regular violence against non-Muslims, honor killings take place regularly and are considered acceptable, homosexuality is illegal, and women have to wear a headscarf to enter a government building. And you're not doing business with Israel?
People like you confound me. I can't tell if you're anti-Semitic or just completely brainwashed and blind to the facts on the ground.
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This has no relevance to the posted story.
You're right, it's irrelevant. Let's just talk about meebo and shmeebo here.
I like to be informed seeing how recessions and wars can directly and indirectly affect my business. Things are heating up over there and Israel is one to follow.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This has no relevance to the posted story.
You're right, it's irrelevant. Let's just talk about meebo and shmeebo here.
I like to be informed seeing how recessions and wars can directly and indirectly affect my business. Things are heating up over there and Israel is one to follow.
First of all, Israel is a country that went through alot of challenges right after it was formed. Its population doubled in less than 5 years (due to imigration), so there were big problems in building the infrastructure to support this tremendous growth in such short timeframe, which required extreme levels of coordination and a wide set of skills to make this possible. This challenging start, with the imigration of very capable and educated people (many of which had a science background), alongside with the Israeli tradition of debating and questioning (which can be seen even inside Israel's army, according the the talker), led to strong learning, generation of ideas and knowledge. This culture with the funding jump-start from the government gave birth to the first few technology companies in the country.
Later on, government support, influx of new, capable and educated work-force (Israeli families value good education and Israel has some of the best education institutions) and the beginning of the first Israeli VC companies (many of which were funded by imigrants from the U.S., where they acquired the expertise by working in this industry) set a very favorable environment to entrepreneurship. But this wasn't just it, Professor Shmuel Ellis then introduces his research in the genealogy of Israel's tech companies, and manages to show how the first technology companies in the country gave origin to hundreds of new start-ups that were formed either by the parent's company founders, its employees or a mix of both. It wasn't just the environment culture that was favorable to being an entrepreneur, but these companies themselves inspired their own employees to also have an entrepreneurial posture and estimulated the creation of new companies. His genealogy graphs are amazing and I fortunately found some of them here (ppt - slide 22 on): http://www.leadership.umn.edu/news/ppt/Droripowerpoint.ppt
Anyway, according to this (http://recanati.tau.ac.il/_Uploads/Personnel/cvellis-March20...) his research on this subject is still in progress, but he already gives alot of insights in his talks.
How many other "Israeli startups" are registered as US businesses and pay tax to the US government, let alone sell-out to US corporations, and funded by non-Israeli sources?
Israeli entrepreneurs? Yes. Israeli startups? hmm.