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 .
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.
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 has $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 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).
.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, US.
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 Israel in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.
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 and Moses) 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.
Israels
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, ultra violet-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.
. . . AND THE FRENCH AMBASSADOR IN ENGLAND SAYS: "ISRAEL IS NOTHING BUT A SHITTY LITTLE COUNTRY"
---a little country who’s military could probably kick the shit out of France’s.
