Israel exports 26 billion dollars worth of thin air in 2018

It appears that the most successful export of Israel is ideas, that is, companies. Luftgescheften. Thin air. Foreigners paid in 2018 26 billion dollars for Israeli companies and startups. What did they paid for? Ideas of products that can be sold. The actual product, once the manufacturing process has been established, can be made anywhere and better and cheaper in China.


Instead of an agricultural powerhouse, as envisioned by the Zionist pioneers, or the planetary finance center, as I thought should be our destiny, we are selling companies. Above: Eyal Waldman, founder of the Mellanox company whose product is cloud solutions, recently sold it to Nvidia for 7.36 billion US dollars.

What are cloud solutions? and why it is worth so much?  Right: "The Clouds" by Aristophanes, a witty, mordant play on Socrates' "idea shop".