By Jonathan Frenkel | Courtesy Israel21C

Leading Israeli thinkers and academics have made an outsized influence across the world

One reason is Judaism’s legacy of structured education. Israel consistently ranks as among the most educated countries. OECD statistics show that half of Israeli adults between the age of 25 and 64 have completed post-secondary education. This is reflected in the high number of PhDs, authors, thinkers and Nobel Prize laureates in Israel.

Another reason is Israel’s culture of contrarian thinking — challenging “common knowledge” and never considering anything to be impossible.

As the Israeli statesman Shimon Peres famously stated, “If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert.”

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