I’ll illustrate this with three examples from international comparisons in education that were performed in 2005: a. 46 percent of Israelis aged 25–64 had post-secondary schooling, as against 26 percent on average in the OECD countries. b.  R&D expenditure in Israel was 4.4 percent of GDP, as against 2 percent on average in the OECD countries.
c.  Per-pupil government expenditure relative to per-capita GDP was similar in Israel to the OECD average at the prekindergarten and secondary levels of education and surpassed the OECD average at the primary and higher-education levels.