A brief visit to the Swedish behemoth gives a snapshot of Israel’s future.

Recently I saw a short video of young Japanese women fawning over the baby of one of their friends. It was noted that none of the other women had any children, and their enchantment with the toddler was like one seeing a Bugatti Veyron or something else rarely seen. The reality is that Japan and much of the developed world have birth rates that are putting their countries in peril of falling apart. All Western countries, Russia, and China have birth rates below the accepted 2.1 births per woman needed to keep a population steady. All countries except one—Israel. Israel’s 2023 births per woman was 2.85, while that of the United States was 1.62.

It would seem that every trip to our local IKEA ends up with an article. There was once a line from a George Bernard Shaw play, “Those who can’t do, teach”—and that was the assumption. Anyone can teach! But all of us know from very personal experience that while anyone can stand in front of a chalkboard or the like, there are very few teachers who can inspire and help push us to new heights of knowledge and capability. My professor father said that if I had three or four truly outstanding teachers from kindergarten through graduate school, then I would have done well.

Just as in education, not all are made to succeed in business. The U.S. has had no shortage of savvy businessmen who have revolutionized our lives. Who could forget Steve Jobs pulling an iPod nano from the mini pocket of his jeans? What of Elon Musk’s revolution in EV cars throughout the........

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