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Avi Benlolo: Israel at 78 — winning is a mindset

The Jewish state has taken nationhood from the ordinary to extraordinary

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This week marks 78 years since Israel achieved independence in 1948. The story of the Jewish people is the story that any leader with a winning mindset can understand and draw inspiration from. This is a story of a people who were exiled from their homeland, the land of Israel, more than 2,500 years ago. Despite untold hardship culminating with the Holocaust from 1939-1945, they rose to establish one of the most successful democratic nations in modern times.

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Israel has taken nationhood from the ordinary to extraordinary. It is defined by a people who refuse to be defined by others, who have turned passivity into action, victimhood into strength and oppression and subjugation to brilliance and determination. In its remarkable 78 years, Israel has made the desert bloom. It has turned saltwater into drinking water and looked not to the land for natural resources to create economic wealth, but to its people.

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