There is an interesting aspect to the Nobel Prize. If you look at the Peace and Literature prizes, they are much more politicized. They are even I believe awarded by a different group. The Peace prize has after all been awarded to the likes of terrorists like Yassir Arafat, and to people who have done nothing to deserve it (our current president, for example).
The prizes awarded to physicists, chemists, economists etc are typically awarded to people who have worked in their field for decades to get to that point. (Norman Borlaug, who did a lot of the agricultural work that produced the green revolution also comes to mind.)
BTW, the Israelis have been awarded over 150 Nobel Prizes in those fields.
As far as I can tell, the whole Muslim world has been awarded something like 10 or so. Considering the 1.3B (or is it 1.5 or 1.7 ? It depends on what number CAIR comes up with in a given week) Muslims in the world compared to the roughly 15M or so Israelis, that is quite a lopsided ratio.
OOPS...Sorry for the double post folks (senior moment fingers I guess)
I’m convinced it has nothing to do with native intelligence, and everything to do with culture, worldview and ..... religion. (Even though many Israelis are not religious. They benefit from the culture and worldview of the Jewish society.)