>>7159643Wrong.
Israel is based and the only reasons its held back are :
-Araps
-Not enough for a fertile areas/not enough docks
-religion seeped into everything so people work 0.5-1.5 days less a week and everything's too expensive.
If kosher wasn't mandatory for lots of products and people could work on Saturday/shabat everywhere Israel would immediately improve quite a bit since food would become cheaper