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GREAT FACTS ON ISRAEL

*The Middle East has been growing date palms for
centuries. The average tree is about 18-20 feet tall
and yields about 38 pounds of dates a year. Israeli
date trees are now yielding 400 pounds/year and
are short enough to be harvested from the ground
or a short ladder.
* Israel the 100th smallest country, with less than
1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to
the following:
* The cell phone was developed in Israel by Israelis
working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which has
its largest development center in Israel.
* Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by
Microsoft-Israel.
* The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in
Israel at Intel.
* Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino
processor were entirely designed, developed and
produced in Israel.
* The Pentium microprocessor in your computer was most
likely made in Israel.
* Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
* Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D
facilities outside the US in Israel.
* The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996
by four young Israelis.
* Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world
(after the U.S., Russia and China). In addition to a
large variety of other aircraft, Israel's air force
has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is the
largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the U. S.
* Israel 's $100 billion economy is larger than all of
its immediate neighbors combined .
* Israel has the highest percentage in the world of
home computers per capita.
* According to industry officials! , Israel designed
the airline industry's most impenetrable flight
security. US officials now look (finally) to Israel
for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
* Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees
to the population in the world.
* Israel produces more scientific papers per capita
than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per
10,000 people --as well as one of the highest per
capita rates of patents filed.
* In proportion to its population, Israel has the
largest number of startup companies in the world. In
absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of
startup companies than any other country in the world,
except the U.S. (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
* On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number
of biotech startups.
* With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and
startups,! Israel has the highest concentration of
hi-tech companies in the world -- apart from the
Silicon Valley, U. S.
* Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital
funds right behind the U. S.
* Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the
largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
* Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
* The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500,
exceeding that of the UK.
* Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds
university degrees, ranking third in the
industrialized world, after the United States and
Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
* Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
* In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews
(Operation Solomon) at Risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
* When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
* When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed
in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within
a day -- and saved three victims from the rubble.
* Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship -- and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
* Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing
nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious
freedom, and economic opportunity. (Hundreds of thousands from the former Soviet
Union)
* Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt
the Kimberly process, an international standard that
certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
* Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
* Israel is the only country in the world that entered
the 21st century with a net gain in its number of
trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved
in an area considered mainly desert.
* Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
* Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first
fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic
instrumentation for breast cancer.
* An Israeli company developed a computerized system
for ensuring proper administration of medications,
thus removing human error from medical treatment.
Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from
treatment mistakes.
* Israel's Given Imaging developed the first
ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a
pill. Used to view the small intestine from the
inside, cancer and digestive disorders .
* Researchers in Israel developed a new device that
directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation
with the potential to save lives among those with
heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the
camera helps doctors diagnose heart's mechanical
operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
* Israel leads the world in the number of scientists
and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000,
as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in Japan, and
less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work
force employed in technical professions. Israel places
first in this category as well.
* A new acne treatment developed in Israel , the Clear
Light device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free,
narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without
damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
* An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.
* All the above while engaged in regular wars with an implacable enemy
that seeks its destruction, and an economy continuously under strain by
having to spend more per capita on its own protection than any other county on
earth.
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