Dear Reader,

In a world full of bad news and dark clouds, a brightening glow is rising on the Eastern horizon, and it is from Israel.

Detailing the good news is George Gilder’s new book, The Israel Test, which has reigned as the leading Amazon item on Israel nearly every day since before its release in late July.

Gilder is no Pollyanna. He is a technology analyst and economic writer for such publications as Forbes magazine and Wired, and author of 15 books on economics, technology, science and society, including the influential worldwide best seller Wealth & Poverty.

His other career as venture fund manager has taken him to Israel, where he has become well known as an investor in early stage Israeli companies such as the promising microchip star EZchip in Yokneam and biocomputing innovator Compugen in Tel Aviv. Shlomi Cohen of the Israeli business journal Globes has bestowed on him accolades as “the only worthwhile technology guru.”
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THE GILDER/FORBES ISRAEL TEST TELECOSM
TELECOSM 2009: EMPHASIS ISRAEL
November 10 – 12 | Tarrytown House Estate | Tarrytown, NY

Join Telecosm Conference hosts George Gilder and Steve Forbes and the world's leading scientists, engineers, innovators, and public policy decision makers for a three-day examination of the creation of wealth, the expansion of capitalism, scientific advance, entrepreneurship, and technological enterprise, including tiny Israel's paramount contributions to the hi-tech economy.

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The Israel Test tells the story of such Israeli breakthroughs as Given Imaging’s consumable imager capsule for colonoscopies and Camero’s system for seeing through walls to identify terrorist fighters in cities. Describing Intel Corporation’s many crucial devices designed in Israel, the book suggests that much key American technology could be stamped Israel Inside. The book concludes that Israel in many ways is as important to the United States as the U.S. is to Israel, and declares that Israel is resented not for its alleged flaws or far-fetched legal infractions but for its supreme achievements and intrinsic goodness.
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