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by myth_drannon 5402 days ago
The main point these types of articles ignore is the huge wave of immigration from Soviet Union in the 90's. It was extremely skilled population with many phd's , professors that worked on pretty amazing stuff back in USSR. Then to help these 1 million (20% of country's population) the government just helped everyone a bit with their ideas.

THAT'S ALL , the rest is history!

I remember my backwater desert town 50k population where they quickly build cheap office buildings and stuffed them with all these 1-2 person "startups" full of bearded Soviet Phd's. They called them "hothouses" (of ideas). What happened to Israel can not be repeated again unless US collapses and 1 million of Silicon Valley engineers(not that they have so much) will move back to India or China.