However the social, political, legal, artistic, technolocical etc., achievements jewish countries such as ancient Israel and modern Israel rank well below the achievements of the more advanced societies coetanean with Israel. Classical Greece far outachieved ancient Israel in any field you can imagine. So far superior is ancient Greek culture to the Jewish culture of the time that a number of modern Jews attempt to demonstrate ancient Greeks learned from ancient Israelis, obviusly a nonsensical idea, otherwise the ancient Jews would have produced at least something ressembling what Greeds achievedsin architecture, literature, sculpure, astronomy, medicine, theater, math, physics, philosophy , sports, navigation, psychology, democracy, etc, and generally using reason to understand humans, nature, the Universe. In fact, once Judeo-Christian beliefs succeeded (once Greece collapsed for a number of reasons), because they are more comforting to deal with fear and ignorance, we did not catch up (partially) to the Greeks until Copernious and Galileo. In fac., even right now millions still need religion with an all powerful God to deal with reality, for them Reason is not enough to face the World.



Modern Israel is way below the Northern European countries, Canadd, New Zealand, Japan and a few others in school aohievement, standard of living, social services, democracy, corruption, etc., and is wholly dependant on the US for survival.



So, some Jews are very high achievers in non Jewish societies but that is not proof of superior intelligence for the reasons I indicated. Of course those Jewish high achievers have great merit but if Jews as a group were smarter they would have created a super Switzerland-Denmark-Germany-UK-Japan long ago.



Even right now it is not too dificult to argue the policies of the Israeli government, and the Jews who support it, are not the most intelligent to ensure the long term security of Israelis and therefore of Jews in general. Just like when Jews lost ancient Israel, when they lose modern Irael, they will feel wronged, but the facts about who outthinked whom are stubborn. I mean, it was not very smart for ancient Israelis to take the Roman army head on.