The Genius of Israel Quotes

“Judaism, Johnson continued, “managed the delicate balance between both—giving equal weight to individual rights and collective responsibility.” This was “very rare and difficult, and constituted one of the Jewish people’s greatest achievements.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Look out your window. If you see Israelis panicking, that’s the time to panic. Just copy the Israelis. You’ll be fine.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Every Israeli has a story,” Raz told us. The show they imagined became Fauda, and it first aired on Israel’s YES network in February 2015. (Fauda means “chaos” in Arabic,”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Even Netanyahu’s most scathing critics acknowledged that he deserved credit for doing something that no other world leader had been able to do. Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, credited Netanyahu with playing “a decisive role in obtaining vaccines” and wrote that the prime minister’s opponents “need to put in a kind word—even Satan occasionally does something that’s praiseworthy, and he must be told so.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“people can feel nostalgia for some of the worst of times. After World War II, many Londoners claimed to miss the communal underground living they had experienced during the Blitz.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Harvard Study of Adult Development. More commonly it was known by the name of its sponsor—the Grant Study.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Waldinger, more than 80 percent of respondents said that a major life goal for them was to get rich. About half said that another major life goal was to become famous. Waldinger slows down and speaks deliberately as he approaches the big reveal. “The clearest message that we get from this seventy-five-year study is this”—he pauses dramatically—“good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Period.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“collective.” Judaism, Johnson continued, “managed the delicate balance between both—giving equal weight to individual rights and collective responsibility.” This was “very rare and difficult, and constituted one of the Jewish people’s greatest achievements.” Johnson elaborated on this idea in his book. “No system of justice in history has made more persistent and on the whole successful efforts to reconcile individual and social roles—another reason why the Jews were able to keep their cohesion in the face of intolerable pressures,” he wrote. We take the ideal of such a balance for granted today, but it was a radical invention in the ancient world, and no small feat to put in practice over centuries and under extreme circumstances.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“A team mindset, high EQ, learning ability, and ability to not just think about their own interests—that’s what this society values,”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Some emphasize a particular theme, such as environmentalism. The focus of the three Ein Prat mechinot is producing leaders whose main goal is to contribute to society in whatever realm they end up in—such as government, business, social organizations, or science.”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World

“Sharon Geva, a historian and the author of Women in the State of Israel: The Early Years, told Haaretz,”
― Dan Senor, The Genius of Israel: The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World