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Inside Israel's Secret Startup Machine
(Forbes) Richard Behar - In the early 1990s Avishai Abrahami found himself assigned to a crack IDF cybersecurity and intelligence team. He was assigned to break into the computers of a country that remained in a state of hostility with Israel. He broke into the computers of two other hostile countries and hijacked their processing power to suck out the data held by the first target - without leaving his chair in Tel Aviv. After leaving the army, Abrahami, now 45, cofounded Wix, currently one of the world's leading cloud-based Web-development platforms.