living the dream - the mircale of israel

Living The Dream4000 Years of Living Prophecies

Gavin Suss

“And I will establish My covenant betweenme and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant..”

(Genesis 17:7)

The Jews are the only living ancient people alive today

( Leviticus 26:33)

“I will scatter you among the nations and will draw out my sword and pursue you ….”

(Deuteronomy 4:27)

“And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations…”

China: 1.2 billion population (give or take 1% = 12 million) The Jews are 13 million

(Genesis 17:7)

“..and I will draw out the sword after you;and your land shall be a desolation …”

) Leviticus 26:33)

Anti-Semitism, Pogroms, Boycotts7 Wars, Persecutions and the Holocaust

“For I will gather all nations againstJerusalem to battle; and the city shall be

taken, and the houses rifled, and thewomen ravished…” (Zechariah 14:2)

BUT The JEWS have Survived and Thrived

I will also give thee for a light of the nations..” (Isaiah 49:6)

“But ye, O mountains of Israel, ye shallshoot forth your branches, and yield yourfruit to My people Israel; for they are at

hand to come." )Ezekiel 36:8)

“For then will I turn to the peoples a purelanguage..” (Zephaniah 3:9)

“Behold, I will bring them from the northcountry, and gather them from the

Uttermost parts of the earth …”(Jeremiah 31:7)

And that’s exactly

what Israel is doing

“How good and pleasant it iswhen God’s people live together in unity!”

(Psalm 133)

Moses cried out to the lord saying, what shall I do with this people?

Before long they will stone me(Exodus 17:4)

Declaration of the State of Israel

Today it’sa story about

Triumph

Pesach we are slaves in EgyptTisha b’ Av – endure the grief and suffering…..

History is what happened to others,

Memory is what happened to Jews

Jewish memory fixes a permanent kinship between previous generations

of Jews and our own

7keys toJewish Success

1. Understand that real wealth is portable: its knowledge

2. Take care of your own and they will take care of you

3. Successful people are professionals and entrepreneurs

4. Develop your verbal confidence5. Be selectively extravagant but

prudently frugal6. Take pride in individuality:

encourage creativity7. Be psychologically driven to

prove something

Understand that Real Wealth is Portable: its Knowledge

Getting an education requires the ability to defer gratification for a bigger payoff later, an ability Jews have had reason to develop

THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK

Jews bury religious books as a sign of respectThe Bar Mitzvah ceremonyJewish tradition encourage questionsCritical thinking skills are encouragedLearning English – bilingual education

Take care of your own and they will take care of you

"

“For I will take you from among the nations, gather

you out of all countries, and bring you into

your own land” (Ezekiel 36:24)

While most countries don’t want immigrants- ISRAEL does and

THE MORE THE BETTER!

Immigration to the promised land

"Anyone who saves one life, it is as if he has saved the whole of mankind"

(Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9)

The Redemption of Captives (and bodies)

The IDF Rescuing Survivors in Haiti

The IDF Rescuing Survivors in Turkey

The IDF set up a field hospital in northeastern Japan, providing medical care to the residents of Minamisanriku

Successful People are Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Doctors Lawyers

Professionals Entrepreneurs

Jews make up 15% of the 1800 students from Europe, Middle East and Africa

Harvard Business School

HOW

DIDTHIS HAPPEN?

The History of Jewish Professional Choices

Jews had been forbiddento own land in the old country but their nonagricultural skills served them well in America

Jews were forced out of land business ONLY to excel in trades that the future welcomed

15$ Billion in Casino and Hotels

Noble Prize Winners

177 Jews have wonthe Noble prize(out of 804)

which are 21.9%

2004 - 7 Jews wonthe noble prize

51 out of 195 in Medicine were Jewish

Noble Prize Winners

Israel has 10 Nobelprizes (1948)

Australia - 11China - 2South Africa – 8France - 58Germany – 102USA - 331

And Jews - 177

Gary ShainbergBT VP for technology

and innovation“There are more new innovative ideas …..coming out of Israel than there are out in Silicon valley now. And it doesn’t slow during global economic downturns”

The west needs

Israel’s got it

When it comes to innovation, The Financial Times ranked Israel 6 out of 139 countries in the world

Germany 8UK 14China 26India 30

3 points • Israel is first in the amount of

Start ups in the world - 2600• As for venture capital per

citizen - Israel number one in the world

• Israel invests 100% more then the OECD in R & D

(not including the IDF)

Google’s first center out of the US was in Israel – opening in 2006 with 17 employees – today 200.

Iscar Metalworking is the largest company of IMC and one of the largest tool making companies

in the world

In May 2006, Berkshire Hathaway, chaired by Warren Buffett, purchased an 80% stake in Iscar for US$4

billion. It was the first time in Berkshire's long history that it acquired a company based outside of the

United States

Amdocs Limited is a provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM),

operations support systems

Amdocs has more than 20,000 employees and serves customers in more than fifty

countries

The R&D centre in Herzliya, Israel's version of Silicon Valley, would be Apple's

first outside California

and all this is happening a tiny country – most desert

surrounded by enemies in the Middle East

Israel and Economics

• The Israeli economy grew in the past 20 years - 270% as compared to the increase of the population by 145%

• GDP per capital - 30,000$ (a good place in the OCED)

• Unemployment in Israel compared to Europe and the US - Very low!!!!

Israel came out of the 2008 crisis's better than all OCED countries:

• Debt to GDP ratio• Deficit Budget• Balance of payments deficit• Growth of GDP per capital

The Israeli health system is rated number 6th in the world

Life expectancy of males in the second highest in the world

Life expectancy of females is fifth in the world

Within 5 years Israel will be 100% energy independent

R & D

Israel - The country’s main strengthsremain its world-class Capacity forinnovation (3rd), which rests on highlyInnovative businesses that benefit from the presence of the world’s bestresearch Institutions geared toward theneeds of the business sector. Israel’s excellent innovation capacity, which is supported by the government’spublic procurement policies, is reflectedin the country’s high number of patents (4th)

The 100 Most Influential Jews in the WorldMark Zuckerberg, Prime Minister Netanyahu, Jerry Seinfeld,

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef and Professor Ada Yonat - each and every one of these has changed, led and influenced to world. And

they're all Jewish.

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/48/ART2/474/705.html?hp=48&cat=488

NOT ALL IS GREAT!! Woman in parlement

Why is Israel such a success?

IDF

And that meansTo Sacrifice LeadershipTeam work100% getting the mission doneFriendship-----networking ImproviseAccountabilityResponsability

Aliya

And that means• Olim – immigrants by nature

take risks• They have a drive to

succeed• Israel is the only country

in the world where

Politian's in an election year

promise to bring as much

immigrants as possible!!!!

Develop your Verbal Confidence“Spare me from

Gentile hands and Jewish tongues”

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לֶׁש��ַאֹו�ל "יֹו�ִּד�ָע�The Torah speaks about four sons “: one who is wise and one who is rebellious; one who is simple and one

who does not even know how to ask a question”

Jewish childrenare recognized as adults, able to make their own religious choices and

take responsibility’s

Judaism sets up a frame work that

permits Jews to act and think differently

Take Pride in Individuality:

Encourage Creativity

George Soros“I am proud of being a Jew- although I

must admit it took me practically a lifetime to get there…..Jews have learned

to consider every question from many viewpoints….Jewishness is an essential

element of my personality and as I said, I am very proud of that”

The Jewish story is a history of outstanding individual and collective accomplishments

and wealth accumulation

Operation Moses Beginning November 21, 1984, it involved the air transport of some 8,000 Ethiopian Jews from Sudan directly to Israel, ending January 5, 1985.

Israel is a modern day miracle that has

emerged because of

hard work, vision, inspiration & passion

Israel provides Hope when it seems that

Hope has died

Israel has represented for Jews the triumph of life overdeath, of hope over despair,

of the possibility fora future when a decimated

past seemed to cloud every view.

Tel Aviv… 1933

Tel Aviv… 2012

TO LIFE לָחיים