The Tel Aviv Cluster - The New York Times
David Brooks writes about Jewish accomplishment and the concentration of entrepreneurs and high-technology firms in Tel Aviv. Most astonishing are these achievements:
Jews make up 0.2% of the world population but account for…
- 54% of world chess champions
- 27% of the Nobel physics laureates
- 31% of the medicine laureates
- 21% of the Ivy League student bodies
- 26% of the Kennedy Center honorees
- 37% of the Academy Award-winning directors
- 38% of those on a recent Business Week list of leading philanthropists
- 51% of the Pulitzer Prize winners for nonfiction
