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January 03, 2008
Some Facts About Israel
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.
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. U.S. officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
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.
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 - and one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
Per capita, 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.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the U.S.
Outside the US and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups in the world.
24% of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12% hold advanced degrees.
Israel is the only Democracy in the Middle East.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews 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.
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.
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.
Israel's Givun Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, 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.
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.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions, Israel places first in this category as well.
An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in California's Mojave desert.
Wild Thing's comment....
I realize that to stand up against Islam can be dangerous to a person. To leave the death cult of Islam is not easy, but when I think of how our troops risk their lives, how our Veterans put their lives on the line for my freedom. I could care less how dangerous it is for a Muslim to leave Islam or speak out against the terrorists.
As Steve said in his email to me, what a difference between what Israel has given to the world and what Muslims have done.
....Thank you Steve for sending me this video.
Posted by Wild Thing at January 3, 2008 02:45 AM
Comments
No doubt they are God's chosen people! God's grace over OIL anyday!!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at January 3, 2008 06:17 AM
The Israelis prove that if you have brains and good sense, and you are always in survival mode, you can accomplish great things.
Muslims prove that blind hatred can cause great problems.
Posted by: TomR at January 3, 2008 06:29 AM
Genesis 12:2-3 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
If the United States ever turns against Israel, the song, which is actually a prayer, God Bless America, will no longer apply.
Posted by: BobF at January 3, 2008 07:37 AM
WT writes:
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
I ask: Would Israel be interested in a few Mexicans ? For You,... Free.
As a friend of mine used to say, Radio Israel, 1200 on your dial, ... but for you 1199.
I heard or read, oh about 15 or more years ago, after they had bought a bunch of F-14's I think, that they had trouble seeing behind them, some problem inherant to the design.
The Israeli's had a problem and fixed it right there at the airport, they installed a mirror to see behind them. The unique thing about the Israelis is they can think outside the box, their enemies can not. This is the whole difference between a free society and one that is not.
As Golda Meir said, 'we won the wars with the arabs because we had a secret weapon, no alternative.'
Posted by: Mark at January 3, 2008 12:51 PM
What an example. I knew most of that but it needs to be rubbed into our faces to remind us that nobody is going to take care of our prosperity or our security unless we become as patriotic as the Israeli's. No Alternative.
Posted by: Jack at January 3, 2008 01:54 PM
WT, thanks for posting this and Steve for sending it to you. Too many people don't realize the permanent damage to Israel and the United States if George Bush is successful next week in his visit to the Middle East to create a terrorist dominated Palestinian State with Jerusalem as it's capital before he leaves office.
This would be a major strategic and tactical accomplishment for the terrorists in their well documented goal of destroying Israel and ending the long list of achievements in this post and video.
This would embolden the Islamofascist terrorists and enable them to more readily spread their poison to the United States. The Democratic candidates willingness to meet and negotiate with our severest and terror supporting enemies makes them no better for Israel, the United States, or the rest of the free world.
Posted by: Les at January 3, 2008 08:39 PM
When STS-Columbia blew up over Palestine Texas, the Israeli astronaut on board was one of the IAF fighter pilots that knocked out Saddam Hussein's Iraqi nuke plant in 1983. What a hero he was and RIP my patriot! His patch and diary (portions) were later recovered on the ground,
~ AMEN ~ !
Posted by: drstrangeloveb52isok at January 4, 2008 12:03 AM
Darth yes, when the Jews hd to leave Gaza couple years ago, the PLO destroyed all the beauty the Israeli's had done to the place, the gardens etc.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:14 AM
Tom so true. They really hate beauty and making things even nice for themselves. weird.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:15 AM
Bob thank you for the verse. You are so right, it is said, how Israel goes so goes the world.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:17 AM
Mark good one, wow thanks for sharing about the plane too.
And yes if they would like our illegals we could ship them over there.
That is such great quote!!
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:20 AM
Jack, it sure is different then here isn't it. Here we have war protests and there they all belong to the IDF and want to fight for freedom and being safe.I have such low opinion of the anti war jerks I bet even if we were like Israel and had to fight on our own land like they do, we would still have to deal with the anti war cowards here.sheesh
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:23 AM
Les thank you, that is exactly what concerns me about what Bush is up to.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:28 AM
drstrangeloveb52isok,wow, thank you for sharing about that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at January 4, 2008 12:30 AM
