Start-up Nation

8. Shahar Zadok, “Intel Dedicates Fab 28 in Kiryat Gat,” Globes Online, July 1, 2008.

9. Michael S. Malone, Infinite Loop: How Apple, the World’s Most Insanely Great Computer Company, Went Insane (New York: Doubleday Business, 1999); quoted in “Inside Intel: The Art of Andy Grove,” Harvard Business School Bulletin, December 2006.

10. David Perlmutter in “Intel Beyond 2003: Looking for Its Third Act,” by Robert A. Burgelman and Philip Meza, Stanford Graduate School of Business, 2003.

11. Interview with Shmuel Eden, vice president and general manager, Mobile Platforms Group, Intel, November 2008.

12. Ian King, “Intel’s Israelis Make Chip to Rescue Company from Profit Plunge,” Bloomberg.com, March 28, 2007.

13. Eliot A. Cohen, Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime (New York: Free Press, 2002), p. 144.

14. Dov Frohman and Robert Howard, Leadership the Hard Way: Why Leadership Can’t Be Taught and How You Can Learn It Anyway (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008), p. 7.

15. This passage is based on Ian King, “Intel’s Israelis Make Chip to Rescue Company from Profit Plunge,” Bloomberg.com, March 28, 2007.

16. “Energy Savings: The Right Hand Turn,” video presentation by John Skinner, Intel Web site, http://video.intel.com/?fr_story=542de663c9824ce580001de5fba31591cd5b5cf3&rf=sitemap.

17. Interview with Shmuel Eden.

CHAPTER

2. Battlefield Entrepreneurs

Epigraph: Interview with Eric Schmidt.

1. Interview with Abraham Rabinovich, historian, December 2008.

2. Azriel Lorber, Misguided Weapons: Technological Failure and Surprise on the Battlefield (Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2002), pp. 76–80.

3. Interview with Michael Oren, senior fellow, Shalem Center, May 2008.

4. Interview with Edward Luttwak, senior associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies, December 2008.

5. This section is based on an interview with Major Gilad Farhi, commander, Kfir infantry unit, IDF, November 2008.

6. Interview with Brigadier General Rami Ben-Ephraim, head of Personnel Division, Israeli Air Force, November 2008. The name of the pilot is fictitious since the IDF does not allow publication of names of most pilots.

7. Interview with Major General (res.) Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, former head of 8200, IDF, May 2008.

8. Interview with Frederick W. Kagan, military historian and resident scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI), December 2009.

9. Interview with Nathan Ron, attorney and IDF Lieutenant Colonel (res.), Ron-Festinger Law Offices, December 2008.

10. Interview with Amos Goren, venture partner, Apax, January 2009.

11. Amos Oz, speech at the Israeli Presidential Conference, Jerusalem, May 14, 2008.

12. Interview with Michael Oren.

13. Interview with Lieutenant General (res.) Moshe Yaalon, Likud member of Knesset and former chief of staff, IDF, May 2008.

CHAPTER 3.

The People of the Book

1. Information in this section is from Patrick Symmes, “The Book,” Outside, August 2005; and an interview with Darya Maoz, anthropologist, June 2009; and an interview with Dorit Moralli, owner, El Lobo restaurant and guesthouse in La Paz, Bolivia, March 2009.

2. Aaron J. Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist: A History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1986), appendix.

3. Chaim Fershtman and Neil Gandal, “The Effect of the Arab Boycott on Israel: The Automobile Market,” Rand Journal of Economics, vol. 29, no. 1 (Spring 1998), p. 5.

4. Christopher Joyner, quoted in Aaron J. Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist: A History of Arab Economic Warfare Against Israel, p. xiv.

5. Sarna, Boycott and Blacklist, pp. 56–57.

6. Interview with Orna Berry, venture partner, Gemini Israel Funds, January 2009.

7. Interview with Gil Kerbs, venture capitalist and contributor to Forbes, January