No Room for Small Dreams: Courage, Imagination and the Making of Modern Israel

by Shimon Peres

investment. Of course, the tech sector has driven more than just high growth; it has propelled a scientific revolution, with breakthroughs that have reverberated around the world. Who would have imagined that the world would run on USB drives invented in Israel, or that doctors could see inside patients with an Israeli-developed camera no larger than a pill? Who would have thought that the world would depend on Israeli technology for GPS navigation or that Israeli hardware and software could save drivers from deadly collisions? Who would have believed that medicines to treat Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis would have been developed right here, or that paralyzed people might be granted the ability to walk again through robotic legs invented in Israel? Ben-Gurion once said that in Israel, “in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” After such extraordinary achievement in science and technology and human creativity, how could we be anything but believers in miracles, faithful to the imaginations that are capable of conceiving them, and committed to the efforts to bring them to life? Ben-Gurion was right: realism in Israel is nothing less than the impossible made real.