Israel: how the country became a "start-up nation"

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The economic district of the city of Petah Tikva, which hosts Israeli tech companies, August 27, 2020 (illustrative image).

REUTERS / Ronen Zvulun

By: Eric Bataillon

21 min

If this expression gave its name to a cycling team competing in the Tour de France, it is because it embodies both a current economic reality and an early political commitment.

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Because long before the official creation of the State, its promoters made education and research a crucial issue for its future.

What the geopolitologist

David Amsellem

tells us

in an article entitled “ 

Israeli cyberspace, a power issue

 ”, published in the journal Herodotus.

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