The mentality is still provincial. Israel needs to see itself as a potential world centre in many fields, if it would only compete. They need to be winning top high school graduates away from Harvard and Oxford to attend Hebrew U. They need to be running the world's finest LLM in International Law, PhD in Physics, MBA in Entrepreneurship. And then they need to be fundraising aggressively from overseas graduates. Language is not a barrier -- either run the programs in English, as many non-English-speaking European countries do; or admit students who meet the standard to the program of their choice, subject to completing a year of ulpan first. It is time to be world leaders, not navel-gazers.

the Nobel prize if they had stay in Israel.

Mentality shift ? 850,000 sheep gave the Rabbi a send off a few days ago, wept hysterically and tore their garments, you want a mentality shift, it's too late buddy, the writing is on the wall.

The octopus-like gov't employees who control most aspects of your life are idiots, I mean, really, truly idiots. That's why good people are forced to leave, not just the scientists described in the article, it's across the board. The private sector is not much better there are a lot of know-it-all schmendricks making stupid decisions.

#1, #3, #4 are all correct