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They say God has a sense of humor. The Jews wandered the desert for 40 years, only to stop in a land with no oil, no water, and no resources. "Moses," the joke goes, "couldn’t have turned left?" Yet today, that same patch of land, smaller than New Jersey, is exporting water to Jordan and fruit to Europe.
What happened?
Necessity happened. And necessity, in Israel, gave birth to one of the most powerful innovation engines in the world.
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