Article By: Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel 21c
Date Published: June 6, 2025
Tell an Israeli his or her invention idea is preposterous, and you’ve just given that inventor a reason to see it through.
Whether it was planting crops in the desert or building a crowdsourced navigation app, many groundbreaking Israeli innovations were initially dismissed as impossible – until bold action turned them into reality.
An educational culture that encourages questioning and independent thinking, and innovating on the fly, leads Israelis to read the word “impossible” as “I’m possible.”
And that leads to innovations that impact the entire world for the better.
“Israel’s impact in tech has become too broad to characterize by one invention or another,” says Saul Singer, coauthor of the 2009 bestseller Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle and the 2023 follow-up, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World.
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