【特優 / 工業管理系三年級 Reyner Axel Butenaers】

每當我們在新聞中聽到以色列，有時只會聽到戰爭、國際和平協議等，但我其實很佩服以色列，我有時會想，為什麼這個被沙漠包圍的國家能有如此豐富的農業，為什麼他們是世界上最聰明的人之一，是什麼讓他們如此特別？

非常感謝國立台灣科技大學, 通識教​​育中心, 和駐台北以色列經濟文化辦事處的 Mr. Omer Caspi 讓 我和其他許多人有機會參加講座，學習和了解以色列為什麼如此成功，我也想了解以色列的秘方。

從地理位置上看，以色列被三大洲包圍，亞洲、非洲、歐洲的人們都可以輕鬆前往，就連鳥類也以以色列為遷徙的中轉站。以色列是人均科學家人數最多的國家之一，有如此多的大型科技公司在以色列投資研發。關於以色列的另一個有趣的事實包括他們回收了 84.5% 的水，Mr. Caspi 說以色列每年都面臨乾旱，但他們是如何生存下來的？事實上，以色列已經把水作為一個嚴肅的話題，他們有自己的部門來管理水的使用，他們進行創新直到最詳細的對象，他們有一個可以提供準確數量的水的灌溉系統來節約用水。

再次，以色列的秘方是什麼，Mr. Caspi 今天打了個比方，如果生活給你檸檬做檸檬水，以色列做出所有這些令人難以置信的創新是出於必要。但一個擁有如此多人才的國家，如何才能成功創造出這一切的創新，一個關鍵詞就是Synergy。以色列不僅可以與政府和諧相處，還可以與成長型公司、跨國公司、學院、軍隊和其他機構密切合作。

以色列的成功是可能的，因為他們在高科技領域的巨大成功。我很欽佩他們的政府不以利潤為導向，他們的目標是加強他們的行業，以色列創新機構投資於新的創業公司，讓他們有機會開發他們的產品，有時甚至沒有得到他們的錢作為回報。

總而言之，有幾件事是以色列真正的“秘方”，必要性，由於規模小而易於建立網絡，Huzpah ， Huzpah 是一種以色列文化，在某種程度上被翻譯為對人們非常坦率和直接，來自高層官員的聲音的重要性或低級官員。其他因素包括靈活性、和諧、失敗不是最終文化，以及他們的軍隊對高科技領域創新的貢獻。

我相信以色列的創新可以幫助很多人，只要看看以色列為世界提供的東西，將其與聯合國的可持續發展目標進行比較，以色列已經成功地完成了第 6 項清潔水和衛生設施，第 7 項負擔得起的清潔能源、9 號工業、創新和基礎設施，等等。我真誠地希望以色列能夠更多地參與全球舞台，幫助我們解決地球上的許多問題，包括日益缺乏的資源。因為 跟以色列、台灣和整個世界，我們可以做出巨大的改變。

Whenever we hear about Israel in the news, we sometimes only hear about wars, international peace agreements and other things, but I actually admire Israel, I sometimes wonder why this country surrounded by dessert can be so rich in agriculture, why they are one of the world’s smartest people, what makes them so special?

I am very grateful that NTUST， the General Education Center， Mr Omer Caspi from Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei, have given me and many others the chance to join the lecture to learn and understand about why Israel is so successful, I also want to learn about Israel’s secret recipe.

From its geographic location, Israel is surrounded by three continents, people from Asia, Africa, and Europe can go their quite easily, even birds use Israel is their transit for migration. Israel has one of the highest number of scientist per capita, with so many big tech companies, investing R&D in Israel Another interesting fact about Israel include that they recycle 84.5% of their water, Mr Caspi said that every year Israel faces drought, but how did they survive? In the matter of fact Israel has put water as a serious topic, they have their own department managing the use of water, they make innovations until the most detailed object, they have an irrigation that can give the exact number of water to save water.

Again, what is Israel’s secret sauce ？, Mr Caspi today gave an analogy, if life give you lemon make a lemonade, Israel makes all this incredible innovation out of necessity. But how can a country with so many talent can successfully create all this innovation, one key word is Synergy. Israel can work in harmony not just their government but working closely together with the growth company, multinational company, academy, army, and other institutions

Israel success is possible thanks to their huge success in high tech sector. I also admire that their government is not profit oriented, their goal is to strengthen their industry, Israel innovation authority invest in new startups give them chance to develop their product and sometimes do not even get their money in return.

In conclusion a few things are the true “secret recipe” of Israel, Necessity, easy networking due to small size, Huzpah, Huzpah is an Israeli culture that is somewhat translated as being very frank and direct to people, the importance of voice either from top level official or low level official. Other factors include Flexibility, harmony, Failure is not the end culture, and also their army’s contribution to the innovations in their high tech sector.

I believe with the innovations that Israel have can help a lot of people, simply looking at what Israel offer to the world comparing it to the united nations’s sustainable development goal, Israel have successfully done number 6 clean water and sanitation, number 7 affordable and clean energy, number 9 industry, innovation, and infrastructure, and so many others. I sincerely hope that Israel can be more involved in the global stage, helping us solve many of the earth’s problem, including the increasingly lack of resources. because together ( Israel, Taiwan, and the whole world), We can make a huge difference. 

【優等 / 資訊管理系一年級 吳凱揚】

這是一場將視野擴大、邁向國際化的演講，在我們的日常當中，我們很難去關心別的國家的發展趨勢，大部分的我們就是與兩千三百萬的台灣人競爭，但是當你將自己的視野擴大至全世界，你會發現，台灣是多麼的渺小。

在整個演講中，令我印象最深刻的就是以色列的國家發展，在我腦海中的以色列，不過就是個以軍事為基礎的一個國家，但是聽完這場演講後，我才知道，以色列的牛奶產量是世界第一、FB、Intel、Google等科技大廠也在當地設立研發中心、甚至整體的教育發展也是在世界排名的前段班，整體的發展早已超越台灣，或許我們大部分人停留在過往的印象裡，但此時此刻我們必須刷新我們的觀念。

有句話這麼說：「站在巨人的肩膀上，你能看得更高更遠」，我們應該多方面的充實自己，讓自己擁有多種技能，增強自己的競爭力，而不是畫地自限，只活在這只有兩千三百萬人的台灣，當你展望全世界，看看別人，再看看自己，是不是我們缺少了些什麼，「人外有人、天外有天」，世界在進步，我們也要跟著前進，增強自己的競爭力，避免成為被世界所淘汰的一員。

【佳作 / 建築所一年級 陳琮軒】

This is our honor to have a speech from Israeli ambassador. From walking in to the audorium, we saw some police were pending outside. The first video shows the diversity natural environment, the economic, the tour spots and etcs. Since Israel is a mystery county for us, everything showed on the scree are fancy for us. Surprisely, they are accepting immigration from all around the world because I thought they are conservative and not welcome. What's more, they have lots of international cooperation, including agriculture, innovation, energy, defense industry ...... ,those started to develop much earlier than other countries. Some of them even planned to develop from 1950s, which we were still in war. So, that's why they have a good economicright now because most of the facilitate are well-planning for a long time. Not just only that, the technology are still on the way to developing. The slides showed countless collaborations are executiving right now, which is impressed. However, the speecher mentioned the position of Taiwan on this field is still on the way to compete and gain more achievement. As a Taiwanes, it is quite sad to hear that, and it inspire us to study more harder. Not even just harder, but also have a good strategies to put into reality in the following years. In conclusion, we only learn Israel from the text book. It's my first time to talk with Israeli in person and have a presentation about how the exactly what's happening on the land of the other side of earth. After COVID, i would really hope i have chance to visit there physically because the images can't present the entire reality. In finally, it would be a good lesson to know more about the culture we can learn from, and also i hope I can have chance to visit soon.