The recently published summaries of 2021 show that the Israeli economy has had a particularly successful year.
The growth rate, the like of which we have not known for 15 years, was significantly higher than in the other OECD countries, including the United States, Britain and France. Ordinary - in high-tech, traditional industry, agriculture, trade and services - leading the country to new heights.
This growth not only leaves the world economies behind, but also widens and deepens the gap between the Israeli success story and the failing economies in the space around us.
After all, while Israel is rushing forward, these are retreating, thus condemning the local population to a life of distress, scarcity and even hunger.
In Syria, the economic decline continues, despite the decision on the battlefields achieved by Bashar al-Assad with the help of his allies Russia and Iran, and even though he managed to expel and "exempt himself" from about a third of the country - eight million out of 25 million living there in 2010.
Peace and stability have not returned to Syria, the economy and economic infrastructure are still swords, and Assad does not have the resources to rehabilitate them.
The Syrian product is about a tenth of Israel's product, and the income is less than a thousand dollars per capita, compared to about 45,000 dollars in Israel.
90 percent of Syrians live below the poverty line (subsisting on an income of less than two dollars a day), and about 60 percent of them are at risk of starvation.
Russia can offer Assad weapons, and the Iranians send more of their men to Syria, but the Syrians need dollars, and these can only be offered by the United States.
In Lebanon - Hezbollah's political paralysis and its negative contribution to stability and the state's ties with the world have collapsed the economy.
GDP has fallen by half, to $ 20 billion, and about two-thirds of citizens live below the poverty line.
Nasrallah boasts UAVs and missiles, but residents have difficulty obtaining food and medicine.
Jordan and Egypt are stable countries, close to the US table, but this stability allows them to barely meet the needs of the growing population. Per capita income stands at about $ 4,000 (a tenth of that in Israel), and growth is shaky and based on trade and services, in the absence of resources Nature and technological infrastructure.
In fact, Israel's GDP of ten million exceeds that of Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq combined.
It is higher than that of Egypt, and not far from that of Turkey.
Only the oil-rich Gulf states are equal to us, but their growth is based on the black liquid, and not on human wealth and technological progress.
The economy and economy in Israel have become an important pillar in the iron wall that protects us, along with military strength and social resilience.
The vitality and dynamism that characterize Israel are a direct result of being a free and democratic society, open to the world.
They are also a product of investment in education and higher education, which produce the generators of the Israeli miracle.
Only those who are able to criticize, challenge and think outside the box can reach the achievements that Israel has reached.
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