"What the world can learn from Israel's meteoric economic success."--Provided by the publisher.

"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Introduction -- Persistance -- Battlefield entrepreneurs -- The people of the Book -- Harvard, Princeton, and Yale -- Where order meets chaos -- An industrial policy that worked -- Immigration : the Google Guys' challenge -- Diaspora : stealing airplanes -- The Buffett test -- Yozma : the match -- Betrayal and opportunity -- From nose cones to geysers -- The sheikh's dilemma -- Threats to the economic miracle -- Conclusion: farmers of high tech.