40 Reasons to Celebrate With Israel
By Dana Ragosin Israel Community Shlicha
There are endless reasons to be proud of Israel: Culture, science, sport, technology, Jewish life, nature, and innovation to name a few. Here are 60 more reasons to celebrate Israel's 60 years of independence:
1. Israel is the only Jewish country in the world.
2. Life expectancy in Israel is one of the highest in the world: 82.2 years for women and 78.5 years for men.
3. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation in the world.
4. The Jewish population in Israel consists 40% of world Jewry.
5. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
6. Israeli historian, UCLA professor, Saul Friedlander won Pulitzer Prize for 2008 for his book on history of Jews in Hitler¹s Germany.
7. Israel has highest number of university degrees per capita in the world.
8. Israel is one of 8 countries in the world that have the technological ability to build and launch its own satellites.
9. Israel has the second highest number of startup companies in the world, ranking directly under the U.S.
10. The Dead Sea is the lowest place on earth, at about 1200 ft below sea level.
11. Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation.
12. Millions of birds migrate twice yearly along the length of Israel, from Africa to Europe and back, making it the world¹s biggest junction for bird migration.
13. The cell phone was first developed at the Motorola plant in Israel.
14. Israel is the world¹s largest exporter of cut diamonds.
15. Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. The Israeli company Amdocs is the largest company in the world in this field.
16. The program ICQ, which is the technological basis for AOL Instant Messenger, was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
17. Israel has the largest number of lawyers per capita in the world.
18. The first computer anti-virus software package was developed in Israel back in the 1970's.
19. Israel, Russia, U.S. and China are the only four countries in the world that own espionage satellites.
20. Israel's air force is considered to be one of the best in the world.
21. Israel has one of the highest rates in the world of patents filed per capita.
22. Outside the USA and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies.
23. Israel has the world's second highest publication rate per capita of new books.
24. Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
25. Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.
26. Israel has a National Health Insurance Law, which provides a standardized basket of medical services for all residents of Israel.
27. Israel sends humanitarian aid to all countries in need, even countries that have no diplomatic relations with Israel like Indonesia.
28. Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
29. Twenty-four per cent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees, ranking third in the industrialized world, after the U.S. and Holland and 12 per cent hold advanced degrees.
30. When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
31. In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia, to safety in Israel.
32. Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
33. Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
34. 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.
35. El-Al, Israel's airline is considered to be the safest in the world.
36. Israel is one of the most advanced countries in water desalination technology.
37. Four Israelis are included in the "500 most richest people in the world" list.
38. The Israeli company M-Systems developed the Flash-drive, a portable, virtual hard disk.
39. Israel has the highest number of personal computers per capita in the world.
40. Israel's Given Imaging developed the PillCam - the first ingestible video camera, which is so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
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Happy 63rd Birthday Israel!by UJAFederation5,586 views
Pride comes before the fall.
jiggy14 10 months ago
@jiggy14
Israel ennemies said the same thing, they were all defeated :)
HONNESTVIEW 10 months ago