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12. Interviews with Gidi Grinstein, founder and president, Reut Institute, May and August 2008.

13. Interview with Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO, Google, June 2009; Maayan Cohen and Reuters, “Microsoft CEO, in Herzliya: Our Company Almost as Israeli as American,” Haaretz , May 21, 2008.

14. “The Global 2000,” Forbes.com, March 29, 2007; http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/18/biz_07forbes2000_The-Global-2000_Ind Name.html; and “Recent International Mergers and Acquisitions,” http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/exeres/F0FA7315-4D4A-4FD CA2FA-AE5BF294B3C2.htm; and Augusto Lopez-Claros and Irene Mia, “Israel: Factors in the Emergence of an ICT Powerhouse,” http://www.investinisrael.gov.il/NR/rdonlyres/61BD95A0-898B-4F48-A795-5886 B1C4F08C/0/israelcompleteweb.pdf, p. 8. Among the top fifty software and technology companies of the two thousand largest public companies listed on Forbes, almost half have acquired Israeli companies or have opened an R&D center in Israel.

15. Paul Smith, senior vice president of Philips Medical, quoted in Invest in Israel, “Life Sciences in Israel: Inspiration, Invention, Innovation” (Israel Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, Investment Promotion Center, 2006).

16. Interviews with Gary Shainberg, vice president for technology and innovation, British Telecom, May and August 2008.

17. Interview with Jessica Schell, vice president, NBC Universal, Inc., April and June 2008.

18. David McWilliams, “We’re All Israelis Now,” April 25, 2004, http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/2004/04/25/were-all-israelis-now.

19. Background interview with senior eBay executive.

20. Curtis R. Carlson, CEO of Stanford Research Institute International, in “We Are All Innovators Now,” Economist Intelligence Unit , October 17, 2007.

21. John Kao, Innovation Nation: How America Is Losing Its Innovation Edge, Why It Matters and What We Can Do to Get It Back (New York: Free Press, 2007), p. 3.

22. Robert M. Solow, “Growth Theory and After,” Nobel Prize lecture, December 8, 1987, http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economics/laureates/1987/solow-lecture.html.

23. Interview with Carl Schramm, president of the Kauffman Foundation, March 2009.

24. Paths to Prosperity: Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Twenty-first Century , Monitor Company, January 2009.

25. Michael Mandel, “Can America Invent Its Way Back?” BusinessWeek , September 11, 2008.

CHAPTER 1

. Persistence

1. Information in the following section is taken from interviews with Scott Thompson, president, PayPal, October 2008 and January 2009; Meg Whitman, former president and CEO of eBay, September 2008; and Eli Barkat, chairman and cofounder, BRM Group, and seed investor in Fraud Sciences, January 2009.

2. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yiddish (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968), p. 5.

3. Loren Gary, “The Right Kind of Failure,” Harvard Management Update , January 1, 2002.

4. Background interview with Israeli Air Force trainer, May 2008.

5. Paul Gompers, Anna Kovner, Josh Lerner, and David S. Scharfstein, “Skill vs. Luck in Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital: Evidence from Serial Entrepreneurs,” working paper 12592, National Bureau of Economic Research, October 2006, http://imio.haas.berkley.edu/williamsonseminar/scharfstein041207.pdf.

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.

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2. Battlefield Entrepreneurs

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.

CHAPTER 3.

The People of the Book

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.