Why the Fate of Israel Matters

On LessWrong, Rob Ennals—a non-Jewish thinker—makes a case for why the Jewish people's survival matters to all of humanity. Despite comprising just two-tenths of a percent of the global population, Jews have won a quarter of Nobel Prizes and founded influential companies from Google to Anthropic, he notes. Ennals attributes this outsized intellectual achievement to Judaism's cultural DNA: a relentless commitment to questioning, debate, and intellectual independence that runs through Talmudic tradition and diaspora experience alike. He concludes that Israel's continued existence is essential not as a special interest, but as a refuge for a people whose skepticism and willingness to challenge orthodoxy enrich the world.

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