Israel appears to be a very highly favored nation, making it both beacon and target.
I guess that's more or less as one would expect, too, given the greater story and general human psychology.
I'm not surprised by Israel's success, given personal experience around or with everyone I've met from there, and, now that I think of it, that is also true, as a general rule, with everyone I know or met who is Jewish.
For three years of high school band, my "nemesis" for the next highest chair was Jewish and that guy made me better because he was better than me. Not necessarily smarter, nor with more musical aptitude, just better, better habits, better discipline, better attitude...better.
I needed his Jewish better example to make me see, and want to take, the better way and, in my ever so humble opinion, so does every nation or whatever surrounding Israel.
Muslim malware has made a quite a mess of things, so bad that only the Original Programmer can fix it now.
The West lives in denial while Israel and other nations are on the front lines, in the trenches, duking it out. America, where are thou? The planet is crumbling and the President is worried about Transgender bathrooms?