Tikkun Olam

While my son is on a forced furlough from his company in Israel (his wife surprised him with a trip for two to Greece while he's off-what a gal!), which indicates that there are still layoffs and belt-tightening, over all the recession might be receding , according to an AP article published by Forbes of a Moody report on Israel's economy. Recently I wrote in this blog about George Gilder's new book The Israel Test which indicated that Israel is becoming an economic force to be reckoned with and possibly a role model for capitalism. So will somebody please tell this to Forbes, whose video about "Markets on the Up" doesn't even mention Israel?

Judging from world opinion vociferously protesting the Israeli so-called "occupation" and 'oppression of Palestinians' and 'apartheid' policy (and 'atrocities in Gaza,' and blah blah blah) one would think that little Israel (wasn't it the French ambassador who once called it " that shitty little country ?") is not worth more than a passing thought, and a negative one at that. However, everyone who really knows the country (and the people and the culture), including countless bloggers (yours truly among them), have often written about the seemingly miraculous birth of Israel and it's developing global greatness. Enter George Gilder with a new future blockbuster book (you heard it here first...er...second: see Israel Matzav ) entitled The Israel Test . In it he shines the light on Israel's emerging greatness as a world class player on the science, technology and economic global stage, (read Mr. Gilder's riveting essay in ...