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It was at a conference 15 years ago in the raw months following Yitzhak Rabin\’s assassination that an unlikely Israeli trio — a young Navy officer, a leading businesswoman and a senior bureaucrat — hatched a plan for Israel\’s future. It wasn\’t exactly a plan for the future, but a plan to plan for the country\’s future in an entirely new way: one focused on long-term strategic thinking to propel Israel into the world\’s top 15 socioeconomic powers. Last week, the goal of becoming a nation with one of the highest GDPs — the type of dramatic \”leapfrog\” growth that would see incomes and other quality-of-life metrics boosted across the socioeconomic divide — went from an idea to headline news when the goal was adopted as policy by the Israeli government.