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About Smart People, Hard Work and Miracles

A year ago, in March 2014, I was invited to speak at an Israeli-Georgian innovation forum, organized by the Israeli embassy. For a number of reasons I chose 1977 as the starting point of my presentation. One of these was personal – my family immigrated to Israel from St.Petersburg, Russia, in that year. But, more importantly, Israel of 1977 is in many ways (though not in all) comparable to Georgia of today. ISRAEL in 1977: 29 years since independence in 1948 Four years after the trauma of Yom Kippur War (1973) The first democratic transition after 2...
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