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- Tel Aviv is just one town, whereas the topic is Israel as a whole.

The Tel aviv region was built from scratch out of swamps and rocks that noone wanted.

No problem, even with the Pi, Beagle Board, and Tessel I carried with me to/from Tel Aviv earlier this year.

So, let's state my affiliation first: I lived in Tel Aviv for a year, I still work for a company that was founded in Israel.

Other countries in the area (namely Finland) also do this and fly around - we've had teams from Italy come visit us in Tel Aviv and other countries.

It's probable, in fact, but even so, Tel Aviv is also way behind Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Munich, Barcelona,...

Many of Israel's major players are in Haifa (where Israel's equivalent of MIT is located) or Jerusalem or other places - Israel is a tiny nation, the commute from Haifa to Tel Aviv can be quicker than taking the subway from Brooklyn to uptown Manhattan.

While we loved "caja" (spanish for box) in Hebrew (we're based in Tel Aviv) it sounds like "cacha" which means "so-so" Hope this helps!

Quoting Eran Tromer, a Tel Aviv University CS prof who wrote his dissertation on custom code-breaking hardware: "Realistically, right now, breaking 1,024-bit RSA should be considered well within reach by leading nations, and marginally safe against other players." And that was two years ago.

CrunchBase, for example, has 581 listings within 20 miles of London, and 35 within 20 miles of Tel Aviv.

The US promised to protect Israel in the first golf war, they shoot missiles that hit Tel-Aviv.

This is latest in a number of new accelerators based totally or partially in Tel Aviv, adding to the many already here....