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6
. Eric Weiner,
The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World
(New York: Twelve, 2008), p. 163.

7
. Ian King, “How Israel Saved Intel,”
Seattle Times
, April 9, 2007.

8
. Shahar Zadok, “Intel Dedicates Fab 28 in Kiryat Gat,”
Globes Online
, July 1, 2008.

9
. Michael S. Malone,
Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane
(New York: Doubleday Business, 1999); quoted in “Inside Intel: The Art of Andy Grove,”
Harvard Business School Bulletin
, December 2006.

10
. David Perlmutter in “Intel Beyond 2003: Looking for Its Third Act,” by Robert A. Burgelman and Philip Meza, Stanford Graduate
School of Business, 2003.

11
. Interview with Shmuel Eden, vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel, November 2008.

12
. Ian King, “Intel’s Israelis Make Chip to Rescue Company from Profit Plunge,” Bloomberg.com, March 28, 2007.

13
. Eliot A. Cohen,
Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
(New York: Free Press, 2002), p. 144.

14
. Dov Frohman and Robert Howard,
Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t Be Taught and How You Can Learn It Anyway
(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), p. 7.

15
. This passage is based on Ian King, “Intel’s Israelis Make Chip to Rescue Company from Profit Plunge,”
Bloomberg.com
, March
28, 2007.

16
. “Energy Savings: The Right Hand Turn,” video presentation by John Skinner, Intel Web site,
http://video.intel.com/?fr_story=542de663c9824ce580001de5fba31591cd5b5cf3&rf=sitemap
.

17
. Interview with Shmuel Eden.

Epigraph: Interview with Eric Schmidt.

1
. Interview with Abraham Rabinovich, historian, December 2008.

2
. Azriel Lorber,
Misguided Weapons: Technological Failure and Surprise on the Battlefield
(Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2002), pp. 76–80.

3
. Interview with Michael Oren, senior fellow, Shalem Center, May 2008.

4
. Interview with Edward Luttwak, senior associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2008.

5
. This section is based on an interview with Major Gilad Farhi, commander, Kfir infantry unit,
IDF
, November 2008.

6
. Interview with Brigadier General Rami Ben-Ephraim, head of Personnel Division, Israeli Air Force, November 2008. The name
of the pilot is fictitious since the
IDF
does not allow publication of names of most pilots.

7
. Interview with Major General (res.) Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, former head of 8200,
IDF
, May 2008.

8
. Interview with Frederick W. Kagan, military historian and resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
Research (AEI), December 2009.

9
. Interview with Nathan Ron, attorney and
IDF
Lieutenant Colonel (res.), Ron-Festinger Law Offices, December 2008.

10
. Interview with Amos Goren, venture partner,
Apax
, January 2009.

11
. Amos Oz, speech at the Israeli Presidential Conference, Jerusalem, May 14, 2008.

12
. Interview with Michael Oren.

13
. Interview with Lieutenant General (res.) Moshe Yaalon, Likud member of Knesset and former chief of staff,
IDF
, May 2008.

1
. Information in this section is from Patrick Symmes, “The Book,”
Outside
, August 2005; and an interview with Darya Maoz, anthropologist, June 2009; and an interview with Dorit Moralli, owner, El
Lobo restaurant and guesthouse in La Paz, Bolivia, March 2009.

2
. Aaron J. Sarna,
Boycott and Blacklist: A History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel
(Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986), appendix.

3
. Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal, “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market,”
Rand Journal of Economics
, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 1998), p. 5.

4
. Christopher Joyner, quoted in Aaron J. Sarna,
Boycott and Blacklist: A History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel
, p. xiv.

5
. Sarna,
Boycott and Blacklist
, pp. 56–57.

6
. Interview with Orna Berry, venture partner, Gemini Israel Funds, January 2009.

7
. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture capitalist and contributor to
Forbes
, January 2009.

8
. Interview with Edward Luttwak.

9
. Interview with Alex Vieux,
CEO
of Red Herring, May 2009.

1
. Interview with David Amir (fictitious name), August 2008.

2
. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture capitalist, January 2009.

3
. Interview with Gary Shainberg, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom, August 2008.

4
.
IMD
World Competitiveness Yearbook
(Lausanne, Switzerland:
IMD
, 2005).

5
. Interview with Mark Gerson, executive chairman, Gerson Lehrman Group, January 2009.

6
. Interview with Tal Keinan, cofounder
KCPS
, May 2008.

7
. Interview with Yossi Vardi, angel investor, May 2008.

8
. Background interview with U.S. Army recruiter, January 2009.

9
. David Lipsky,
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point
; and interview with Lipsky in March 2009.

10
. Information from this passage is largely based on an interview with Colonel (res.) John Lowry, general manager at Harley-Davidson
Motor Company, November 2008.

11
. Interview with Jon Medved,
CEO
and board member, Vringo, May 2008.

12
. This experience prompted the army leadership to pursue a proactive public relations campaign to bridge the civilian-military
divide, which included reaching out to
Rolling Stone
and offering access to a West Point class. This effort culminated in David Lipsky’s book
Absolutely American
. This passage is also based on author interview with General John Abizaid, May 2009.

13
. Interview with Tom Brokaw, author,
The Greatest Generation
, April 2009.

14
. Interview with Al Chase, corporate executive recruiter and founder, White Rhino Partners, February 2009.

15
. Interview with Nathaniel Fick, author of
One Bullet Away
, March 2008.

16
. Interview with Brian Tice, captain (res.), U.S. Marine Corps, February 2009.

1
.
CIA
, “Field Listing—Military Service Age and Obligation,”
The 2008 World Factbook
.

2
. Mindef Singapore, “Ministerial Statement on National Service Defaulters by Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean,” January 16,
2006.

3
. Amnon Barzilai, “A Deep, Dark, Secret Love Affair,”
http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-6321.html
.

4
. Mindef Singapore, “Speech by Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the 35 Years of National Service Commemoration Dinner,” September
7, 2007.

5
.
BBC
News, “Singapore Elder Statesman,” July 5, 2000,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234
.stm
; retrieved November 2008.

6
. Quoted in James Flanigan, “Israeli Companies Seek Global Profile,”
New York Times
, May 20, 2009.

7
. Interview with Laurent Haug, founder and
CEO
, Lift Conference, May 2009.

8
. Interview with Tal Riesenfeld, founder and vice president of marketing, EyeView, December 2008.

9
. The information from this passage is largely taken from Michael A. Roberto, Amy C. Edmondson, and Richard M. J. Bohmer, “
Columbia
’s Final Mission,” Harvard Business School Case Study, 2006; Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox,
Apollo
(Birkittsville, Md.: South Mountain Books, 2004); Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger,
Apollo 13
(New York: Mariner Books, 2006); and Gene Kranz,
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
(New York: Berkley, 2009).

10
. Michael Useem,
The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All
(New York: Three Rivers, 1998), p. 81.

11
. Roberta Wohlstetter quoted in Michael A. Roberto, Richard M. J. Bohmer, and Amy C. Edmondson, “Facing Ambiguous Threats,”
Harvard Business Review
, November 2006.

12
. Interview with Yuval Dotan (fictitious name),
IAF
fighter pilot, May 2008.

13
. Interview with Edward Luttwak.

14
. Interview with Eliot A. Cohen, director of the Strategic Studies Program, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies,
Johns Hopkins University, January 2009.

15
. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling quoted in Thomas E. Ricks, “A Brave Lieutenant Colonel Speaks Out: Why Most of Our Generals
Are Dinosaurs,”
Foreign Policy
, January 1, 2009,
http://ricks.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/01/22/a_brave_colonel_speaks_out_why_most_of_our_ generals_are_dinosaurs
.

16
. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling (United States Army), “A Failure in Generalship,”
Armed Forces Journal
, 2007,
http://www.armed forcesjournal.com/2007/05/2635198
.

17
. Interview with Eliot Cohen.

18
. Giora Eiland, “
The IDF: Addressing the Failures of the Second Lebanon War,” in The Middle East Strategic Balance 2007–2008
, edited by Mark A. Heller (Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, 2008).

19
. Quote identified from interview with Carl Schramm, March 2009.

20
. William J. Baumol, Robert E. Litan, and Carl J. Schramm,
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007); and Carl Schramm, “Economic Fluidity: A Crucial Dimension of Economic Freedom,”
in 2008 Index of Economic Freedom, edited by Kim R. Holmes, Edwin J. Feulner, and Mary Anastasia O’Grady (Washington, D.C.:
Heritage Foundation, 2008), p. 17.

1
. Central Bureau of Statistics (Israel), “Gross Domestic Product and Uses of Resources, in the Years 1950–1995,” in
Statistical Abstract of Israel 2008
, no. 59, table 14.1,
http://www.cbs.gov.il/reader/shnaton/templ_shnaton_e .html
?num_tab=st14_01x&CYear=2008.

2
. Howard M. Sacher,
A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time
, 2nd ed. (New York: Knopf, 1996), p. 30.

3
. “Yishuv,” in
Encyclopedia Judaica
, 2nd ed., vol. 10, p. 489.

4
. Quoted in Time/
CBS
News,
People of the Century: One Hundred Men and Women Who Shaped the Last Hundred Years
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999),
p. 128.

5
. Leon Wieseltier, “Brothers and Keepers: Black Jews and the Meaning of Zionism,”
New Republic
, February 11, 1985.

6
. Quoted in Meirav Arlosoroff, “Once Politicians Died Poor,” Haaretz, June 8, 2008.

7
. Daniel Gavron,
The Kibbutz: Awakening from Utopia
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), p 1.

8
. Bruno Bettelheim,
The Children of the Dream: Communal Child-Rearing and American Education
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001),
pp. 15–17.

9
. Alon Tal,
Pollution in a Promised Land: An Environmental History of Israel
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002),
p. 219.

10
. Alon Tal, “National Report of Israel, Years 2003–2005, to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD),”
July 2006, http://www.unccd.int/cop/reports/otheraffected/national/2006/israel-eng.pdf.

11
. Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise,”
New York Times
, January 2, 2007.

12
. Information for this passage comes from Web sites of the Weizmann Institute, Yatir Forest Research Group,
http://www.weizman.ac.il/ESER/People/Yakir/YATIR/Yatir.htm
,
and the Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael/Jewish National Fund,
http://www.kkl.org.il/kkl/english/main_subject/globalwarming
/israeli%20research%20has%20worldwide%20implications.x.

13
. Reut Institute, “Generating a Socio-economic Leapfrog,” February 14, 2008,
http://reut-institute.org/data/uploads/PDFVer/20080218%20-%20%20Hausman%27s%20main%20issues-%20 English.pdf
.

14
. Reut Institute, “Israel 15 Vision,”
http://www.reut-institute.org/event.aspx
?EventId=6.

15
. Information in this passage is from Yakir Plessner,
The Political Economy of Israel: From Ideology to Stagnation
(Albany:
State University of New York Press, 1994), pp. 11–31.