The Economic Impact of Israel’s Surge Toward Authoritarianism
Ones and Tooze
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The Israeli Tech Sector Is the Jewel in the Crown
Israel has an exceptionally high R&D share, as a share of GDP at South Korea's level in the 4 to 5 percent of GDP. The university system is one of the proudest legacies of that earlier period of social democratic Israeli state building after World War II. Human factor: flow of Jewish people from ex-forma Soviet Union in early 1990s who came with extraordinary high education provided by another socialist regime.
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