Why Israel Could Be the Next Cybersecurity World Power

jfruh writes: Beersheba is a small town in southern Israel, more than an hour's drive away from Tel Aviv and the bulk of the country's population. But the city is a hotbed of cybersecurity startups driven in part by a graduate program at the local university and the country's military and intelligence apparatus's keen interest in the subject. "To become such a cyber nexus, any place has to have several ingredients: A great university with a solid computer science department with a penchant for security research. Check. Several industry partners who have set up their own research and innovation laboratories nearby, to take advance of the cheap labor pool of graduate students. Check. An active venture capitalist operation that can fund startups is also essential, along with mentors who can help entrepreneurs along. Double check. And finally some solid support for local and national government to grease the wheels of progress. Check."

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Re: Beersheba

[jellomizer]

Way to oversimplify a very complex geo-political situation.
First you have a nation that is in the the area considered a holy land for the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim. Jewish religion was first there, then Christianity branched off from it. Then Muslim was a way to try to merge the two back together. So they all have claim to say this area is their roots. The facts about the religions isn't as much of an issue, but the differences in cultures that rooted from people with the religions. The Jewish population is largely from Christian europe so culturally the Jewish and Christians are rather similar. The Muslims are more from the middle east and north Africa. So there are two different cultures meeting in the middle as Israel is the center point between Europe, Middle East and Northern Africa.

After WWII the Jewish were given Israel, kinda like a double edge blade, to make reparations for the holocaust, and because most of the populations were still so anti-semitic that they didn't want them in their own back door. So they chose Israel as it wasn't controlled by a major power. So we have a group of people who had suffered a hard time, moving to an area where the existing population really didn't want them there anyways, but being backed by large superpowers meant they had more power. When your group is in power, you will try to expand your cultural values. This causes more conflict on the area.

Because of the conflict both sides are feeling that the other are against them, so they preemptive position themselves to protect against the other, which then creates more conflict.