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Cool Facts About Israel

Published by CutestPrincess in Offbeat
June 23, 2009

Israel’s one natural resource is its brainpower, with a driving demand for survival and success against all odds, Israel developed an energetic and ambitious society.

1. Israel country is the size of New-Jersey, it’s capital city Jerusalem, which is holy for Christians, Muslims and Jews.

2. Giza Venture Capital has invested $1.5 million in a web publishing service for Israel’s Triond.

3. An Israeli company, TEVA, is now the world’s largest maker of antibiotics, and one of the world’s top maker of generic drugs.

4. Israel has the largest number of bio-tech start-ups in the world, per capita.

5. The only democracy in the Middle East, smaller than New Jersey, with population less than tat of New York City.

6. Israel has more museums per capita than other country.

7. Israeli companies: Amdocs, Converse, Nice Systems are all pioneered Voice mail, SMS and other cellular phone services.

8. Israel holds the largest concentration of High-Tech industries in the world, in relation to its population.

9. ICQ-The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed by a team of four young Israelis in 1996.

10. Israel is one of only eight countries in the world capable of launching their own satellites into space.

11. Israel has more scientists and engineers per capita than other country.

12. Seamless lingerie that is sold at Victoria’s Secret is made by an Israeli company, Tafron. that also makes seamless garments for Calvin Klein, DKNY, Banana Republic and Nike.

13. Intel’s new high-speed Centrino processor was developed in Israel, as was Microsoft’s Windows XP operating System.

14. American Industry giants GM, such as Ford, Boeing and Lockheed Martin manage their manufacturing using software from Israeli company Techno-matrix.

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17 Comments

  1. Posted June 22, 2009 at 9:47 am

    Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing.

  2. Posted June 22, 2009 at 9:56 am

    Very Informative…..

  3. Posted June 22, 2009 at 9:58 am

    Very informative…i learn some helpful things i didn’t know

  4. Posted June 22, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Your a good teacher. Like it!

  5. rajeev bhargava
    Posted June 22, 2009 at 10:16 am

    a really informative and enjoyable article to read and gain knowledge from. i also love the photograph of the waving flag. a beautiful script and i thoroughly enjoyed all of it. thank you for sharing.

  6. Posted June 22, 2009 at 2:37 pm

    I am glad that you shared this. keep it up.

    motie

  7. Posted June 22, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    Quite useful,very informative and rare piece of information too.

  8. Posted June 22, 2009 at 8:26 pm

    serious coolness!

  9. Posted June 22, 2009 at 8:55 pm

    thank you for the info on Israel…

  10. dundas20012002
    Posted June 22, 2009 at 9:45 pm

    Israel is a state to look up to, but I would tather be a proud Canadian.

  11. Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:17 am

    Some cool stuff on Israel in here!

    Nicely done.

    -Fresh Writing

  12. Posted June 23, 2009 at 12:51 am

    Very, very cool – thanks for sharing!

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

  13. Posted June 23, 2009 at 2:20 am

    very informative one.

  14. Posted June 24, 2009 at 2:39 am

    good info – learned something new!!
    (from stumble)

  15. Posted June 24, 2009 at 10:54 pm

    also a very historic country.

  16. Posted June 25, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Interesting list. I’m not Jewish, but I am fascinated by Israel and Judaism. Interesting that Israel has more scientists per capita than any other country. Judaism seems to support and foster drive, ambition, and high achievement.

  17. Posted June 25, 2009 at 7:26 pm

    Thanks for sharing. You write such interesting articles.

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