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99. David Shear, “Israeli Company Produces Cancer Vaccine,”
Ynet News, January 16, 2012, http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4170853,00.html.
100. Nicky Blackburn, “New Blood Test Offers Early
Cancer Detection,” Israel 21c Innovation News Service,
February 23, 2012, http://israel21c.org/health/
new-blood-test-offers-early-cancer-detection/.
101. U.S. Chamber of Commerce official, author interview,
Washington, D.C., April 2012; Abigail Klein Leichman,
“Abbott Labs Seeks the Next Best Thing in Israel,”
March 13, 2012, http://israel21c.org/health/research/
abbott-labs-seeks-the-next-best-thing-in-israel/.
102. Abigail Klein Leichman, “Non-Invasive Tool Identifies
Alzheimer’s, Depression, and ADHD,” Israel21c.
org, January 12, 2012.
103. World Health Statistics: 2012 (Geneva, World Health
Organization: 2012), p. 140, http://www.who.int/
healthinfo/EN_WHS2012_Full.pdf.
104. Israel Economic Mission to the West Coast, “Life
Sciences,” http://www.israeltradeca.org/content/
life-sciences.
105. Arieh O’Sullivan, “American CEOs Get an Israeli
Medical Education,” Jerusalem Post, February 7, 2012,
http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.
aspx?id=256880.
106. Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, “Twenty Million Africans to Be
Circumcised against AIDS,” Jerusalem Post, December
7, 2011. See also “Operation Abraham,” http://www.
aidsnews.org.il/.
107. Donald G. McNeil Jr., “AIDS Prevention Inspires
Ways to Make Circumcision Easier,” New York Times,
January 31, 2012.
108. Israel Foreign Ministry official, authors’ interview,
Jerusalem, July 2011.
109. Omand, Securing the State, pp. 5, 12–13, 57–83. For more
on the impact of globalization and social and economic
complexity on societal fragility, see Nassim Nicholas
Taleb, “On Robustness and Fragility,” in The Black
Swan, Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
(New York: Random House, 2010), pp. 310–323.
110. Senor and Singer, Start-Up Nation, pp. 13–14; George
Gilder, The Israel Test (Minneapolis, MN: Richard Vigilante
Books, 2009), p. 110.
111. Neta Donchin, Israel Ministry of Tourism, author
interview, Jerusalem, April 2011.
112. Greg Slater, presentation and Q&A on “Economic
Lessons from Israel,” Hudson Institute, Washington,
D.C., March 21, 2012.
113. Dr. Stephen Phillips, National Institutes of Health,
author interview, Washington, D.C., January 2012.
Other participants in such Israeli conferences include
experts from Muslim-majority countries that do not
even have diplomatic relations with Israel; see, for
instance, Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, “Indonesians Study
Israeli Mass Catastrophe System,” Jerusalem Post,
November 17, 2011, http://www.jpost.com/Landed-
Pages/PrinArtricle.aspx?id=245878.
114. Dr. Sibel McGee et al., Public Role and Engagement in
Counterterrorism Efforts: Implications of Israeli Practices
for the U.S. (Arlington, VA: Homeland Security Institute,
April 2, 2009), http://www.hstoday.us/images/
public_role_in_ct_israeli_practices_task_08-22.pdf.
For an Israeli perspective on societal resilience, see
Meir Elran, “The Israeli Home Front: From Civil
Defense to Societal Resilience,” PowerPoint presentation,
April 27, 2010, www.gwumc.edu/hspi/events/
ElranHSPIPresentation.pdf.
115. For a critical assessment of the performance of Israel’s
fire and emergency services during this episode, see
Micha Lindenstrauss, The Employment of Fire and Rescue
Services ( Jerusalem: State Comptroller, December
2010), http://www.mevaker.gov.il/serve/contentTree.
asp?bookid=587&id=192&contentid=&parentcid=und
efined&sw=1280&hw=730.
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