Eventhough it is the revered month of Elul and many have the number 613 (or The 13) on their minds, it's time to refocus on an all new number in israel:

The 8200

Who cares about Sparta's 300, we have Unit 8200 and according to Forbes and Foreign Policy Magazine Unit 8200 is the Israel Defense Force's supersecret electronic espionage program which has produced possibly the brightest and most successful minds in the tech world today....

Foreign Policy Magazine's Charles Levinson writes:

"When Jon Medved, a Jerusalembased venture capitalist, examines the books of young startups seeking seed money, one number matters most—8200. Unit 8200 is the Israel Defense Force's supersecret electronic espionage program. It is also the most important driver behind the success of Israel's hightech business sector. Veterans of the unit have spun off some 50 tech startups worth billions of dollars in the past decade. "Everybody who matters in high tech here is ex8200," says Medved. "I salivate over these guys."

A partial list of 8200 vetscummillionaires includes Gil Shwed, one of Israel's youngest billionaires. He spent four years in the unit in the late 1980s, then went on to found Check Point Software, whose firewall technology now protects the networks of 98 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Shlomo Dovrat, an 8200 vet, sold his financial software company to a U.S. competitor for $210 million. Two other alums of the secretive unit, brothers Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel, are a veritable startup factory. They've sold 23 telecommunications companies—six went public on New York's NASDAQ, and seven sold for more than $1 billion each.

What exactly happens inside 8200 that makes its personnel so well placed to become hightech millionaires? No one really knows. The unit is so secret that the Israeli government won't even discuss it. What is known is that it is responsible for eavesdropping and other forms of advanced espionage. It puts 21yearold soldiers in charge of multimilliondollar budgets and gives them wide latitude to innovate. The environment is high pressure—where a timely algorithm or clever thread of Linux code can mean the difference between a suicide bomber getting through Israel's defenses or getting nabbed in the nick of time...."  read the rest of this story here

We can't wait to hear the Gematria around this one and The 300esque one liners (THIS IS WHERE WE FIGHT AND THEY DIE!!!) that the 8200 produce. ...

Top Ten One Liners of THE 300, if said by The 8200:

10.  The world will know that freemen stood against a tyrant, that few stood against many, and that before this battle is done, that even a firewall can be protected.  

9.  Immortals,we put their unique identifying Israeli screenname to the test!

8.  Come back with your naot, or on them.

7. It's been more than 60 years since the sql and the coldfusion. Now, as then, it's not viruses that grips him, only restless

6.   The world will know that free men stood against an arafat, that few stood against many

5.   My children, gather round! No retreat, no surrender; that is Israeli law and by Jewish law we will stand and fight... and die. A new age has begun. An age of freedom, and will know, that 8200 Israelis gave their last breaths to make it to IPO!

4. Israelis! Ready your breakfast and eat hearty (cucumbers, tomatos, shoko)... For tonight, we dine in Google headquarters!

3. Give them nothing! But take from them everything! (in Preffered shares)

2.  This is where we hold them! This is where we fight! This is where they die! (arab computer viruses)

1.  Remember this day(initial public offering on the NASDAQ), men, for it will be yours for all time.

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