This article examines various creativity-related discourses and events associated with Israel’s self-perception as a global center of hi-tech and entrepreneurship, and argues that creative events explicitly and implicitly perform an acknowledgement of discourses relating both to the nation-state’s weakness and its seemingly unnatural puissance. For visitors and participants alike, the performance of creative peak experiences and their interpretations, attribute symbolic credibility to the reading of Israel’s ongoing state-building as a miraculous overcoming of geopolitical natural law, and as such, inspire a heightened sense of national safeness.