Start-up Nation — Israel's Economic Miracle

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Israel is known as "startup nation". That's because "Israel has the highest concentration of startups per capita in the entire world," says David Blumberg of Blumberg Capital. I went to Israel to find out why, and interviewed Blumberg for Stossel TV.Blumberg tell me, Israel took "advice of economists from the University of Chicago, MIT, following in the Milton Friedman school of thought ... [they] basically said 'Israel you have to free the entrepreneurs'." So Israel got "rid of taxes and tar...