Isreal, I mighty Strong Little Nation

[redneck13]

Subject: A Mighty little country


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 outsi de 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).
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 c apita income 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) 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
internat ional 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 hearts 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.

[Mike McIntyre]

Necessity breads invention

What you failed to include:

They support their Military

They support their Intelligence Agencies

They let the UN & Media be Damned!

Not that I want to be an Israeli but we could learn from them.