How Israel Turns Its Soldiers Into Entrepreneurs
Unit 8200 is an elite branch of the Israel Defense Forces, or IDF, that specializes in computer security and murkier, more controversial stuff, such as espionage and cyber attacks. The Unit resembles the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. So it’s not that surprising that Unit 8200 and the IDF would give rise to clever, interesting tech startups. What’s remarkable is how Israel has turned its soldiers into entrepreneurs.
Today, Israel has about 5,500 startups, and it added 1,400 new ones just last year. It has become a world leader not just in security but in chip, printing, biotech, and corporate software, as well. In this episode of Hello World Bloomberg Businessweek’s Ashlee Vance goes to Israel to discover how the IDF became such an efficient technology engine.
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How Israel Turns Its Soldiers Into Entrepreneurs
Aren’t all Israeli entrepreneurs technically all former military personnel? Every Israeli citizen has to serve the military. Or am I missing something?
No, you’re correct.
Yup
@the patriot You prove my case with that comment. I like to read the Constitutions of different countries on Constitute dot org. Israel’s reads like a Borg manifesto compared to say Venezuela, which could be a Constitution drawn up by the Na’vi. Intelligence isn’t the be all and end all.
Beautiful country filled with many intelligent people. Can’t wait to visit again. From South Africa with love 🇿🇦
‘Low-tech forms of protest, such as stabbings’. Damn, I thought stabbing a person was a criminal offence, but turns out it was a from of protest all along! Thanks for keeping me informed, Bloomberg!
@Ultron2 – I DIDNT SAY IT WAS PROVED TO BE FLAT !!
@Ultron2 – ITS IN THE BIBLE !!
@FLAT EARTH There never was some country called „Palestine“. It is an invention from the 60s.
The thing Israel has done to Palestinian stabbing is small thing to Israel
The land of love & timeless innovation–Long live Mother Israel!🇮🇱
I have a constant shifting perspective of Israel it has definitely extremely from one of anger and hate to admiration and foundness hopefully I can stop relying on media of telling me what’s happening and see the historical rich nation with my own eyes
This video is so encouraging, what I picked up is that the most important thing to be successful is to have an idea and use it for remuneration
No country surprise me more than Israel. Epitome of innovation.
i have a theory that people that suffer alot in life including their generations, when you put then into idea making they end up disrupting everything we think is possible. i paused this video and watched some videos on the iron dome and id be damned thats one fine piece of technology.
An incredibly effective series — this one particularly – um – weighty.
This is amazing and breath taking!
נחמד לראות סרטון שסוף סוף מראה את הדברים המגניבים שבמדינה שלנו. לא רק את הקונפליקט בין הישראלים לפלסטינאים
אני מדגיש גם שזאת עובדה, אם היכרת כבר או לא.
המפתח היא לא לדאוג על על מה ששונאי ישראל בחוץ ובפנים אומרים, ולעשות מה ששורת המעונינים שלנו היטב.
Never broke Again למה? אני דווקא רואה תגובות סבבה פה
Israel is the greatest country with the greatest ppl until you try to organize yourself in line formation to go to an ATM machine or get on a bus and some old lady elbows you to get ahead only to offer you bread once your all seated, returning the smile back onto your face…
wonderful Israel, the promise land！
Truly a blessed people and a blessed country.
Damn, I am learning a ton from these videos!
I like what i see and hear especially the government helping the retiring soldier to becoming antrapnuer brilliant
Now do one on how America turns its soldiers into junkies.
By getting them to be proxies for the Oded Yinnon plan.
When I was a child I remember watching in the news all sorts of bombings, buses blown up, gun machine attacks in prom balls, Hezbollah rockets destroying buildings…glad to see Israelis managed to neutralize all these threats to a minimum. And as it shows in this video, they didn’t just pray, curse, protest or boycott, but instead they thought hard, studied long hours, and stayed awake all night doing trial and error until things work.
yes
Grozaaïmid excuse me but they are allowed to leave and have rights unlike a concentration camp
@Aladyn I get your point, but look what they got for being hard headed, they now live in an open air concentration camp. If only they had agreed to that peace deal, they would be having a state by now.
@J how about i come to your house and say lets split it, you refuse? then we have a war! if you didnt refuse then we wouldnt have a war and nobody would get hurt, so you are the bad guy in the situation right? chek your logic
That eye tracking startup had fighter cockpit written all over it
Nah, it’s too slow for fighterjet activities. It’s more for people who are paralyzed
Yoël Knopf; sometimes things have more than one effective use 🤯
Really? Because I was thinking more towards help for people with disabilities.
Today that’s is true, we use eye-tracking in fighters
Most military systems in the world are bureaucratic and close-minded. The Israeli army is the 1st class. One of the most respected small countries in the world along with Switzerland and Singapore.