Import More Israelis
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The National Foundation for American Policy recently published a report on immigrant entrepreneurs and billion-dollar startups in the U.S. They sorted the number of U.S. billion-dollar companies by the country of the immigrant founders. India led the list at 96, Israel is second-place at 60, and the United Kingdom in third with 47.
A more interesting perspective is the rate per 100 million population in the country of origin. Israel shoots to the top of this list and is far above any other country. Israeli founders outperform Indian founders by a factor of 90 and Chinese founders by a factor of 200.
While we may not need to import Israelis to enjoy the benefits of their technology and innovations, we should value their contributions in advancing human prosperity.
George Gilder notes this in his book The Israel Test.
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In this timely and courageous book, George Gilder demonstrates that the widespread antagonism toward the state of Israel is based – as is anti-Semitism itself – on self-defeating envy and resentment of its superior accomplishments and moral leadership.
Israel’s stunning rise as a world capitalist and technological power, he argues, stems in part from the Jewish “culture of mind” and in part from Judaism itself, which encourages intellectual curiosity and rational analysis while providing a rigorous moral framework for entrepreneurial creativity. Israel’s critics throughout the Middle East and in Western Europe – all facing socialist decline – have failed the “Israel Test” because they seek to destroy Israel’s capitalist success rather than to emulate it.
America’s continued support for Western Civilization in the Middle East will define our future survival as a nation. “If Israel is destroyed,” Gilder predicts, “capitalist Europe will likely die as well, and America, the epitome of productive and creative capitalism spurred by its own Jewish citizens, will be in grave moral and economic jeopardy.”
At a time when ignorant students and overtly anti-Semitic politicians champion Israel’s murderous enemies and rush to abandon Israel, Gilder’s clarity of vision makes The Israel Test required reading not only for college students, but also for policy-makers in Washington, and throughout the world.