NOT!
Ashkenazi Jews are smart; the rest of Jews, who have an average IQ akin to that of the Middle-eastners, are not.
Israel is not an Ashkenazi state, but a mixed place.
Most of Ashkenazi Jews have been always living in the US and Western Europa in history ( e.g. look at the examples that you mentioned). They rightly took hugh advantages in high education and superpower high-tech environments that both pre-WWII Germany ( world's premium high-tech superpower at a time) and the post war US ( the superpower up to now) have had to offer, and made a lot from them, hence Ashkenazis have taken lots of the headlines.
Ashkenazi Jews have the highest IQ average in the world on paper, somewhere between 115 and 118, according to Lynn, Murray, Rushton and a host of prestigious researchers.
Yet most recent IQ sample results showed that Chinese Province of ZheJiang ( WU region - the same region as Shanghai and southern JiangSu Province) had an average IQ of 114.5, a 2004 sampling if I recall correctly.
Considering ZheJiang Province (which has population of about 100 million plus, almost 15X larger than entire Ashkenazi Jews population in both the US and Europa), is far less developed than either Germany or the US, I would say that the innate average IQ of Han Chinese Wu people would probably be about the same as that of Ashkenazis, if not higher.
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The OP is very ironic to me since Imperial China was the premium superpower in agriculture and invented many related technologies at a time, far leading the rest of the world, yet today it is reduced to the level that requires outside "high-tech" assistance of a tiny middle eastern state.
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Grow up, people!
The myth why "the Chinese need outside agriculture tech support" as per the OP is mainly due to the fact that the CPC education system has spectacularly failed to properly educate the highly, or put it correctly more, intelligent Chinese farmers!
And the myth why "Chinese is less innovative, than (Ashkenazi) Jews for example" is mainly due to the cultural mentality forged by 1000s-year-old centralised imperial Chinese system of harmonious govenance that systemically dis-encourages "outlier thoughts" and insititutionally punishes them instead.
Time to stop that ridiculous "inferiority syndrome" , start to think hard , act rationally, and learn how to be a proper proud Chinese.