What Israel has contributed to the World?
• The Bible, the bestselling book written by a living God.
• Our Savoir, choose to come to Earth in a human body as a Jew, the most persecuted people.
• As Israel observes its 63rd birthday, the world ought to acknowledge the vast gifts the Jewish state has given the world. Israel has sent abroad more lifesaving medical technology to the far-flung corners of the earth than any nation of equal size. It has done more to protect the environment, to promote literature, music, the arts and sciences, to spread agricultural advances and to fight terrorism within the rule of law.
• Israel has created a legal system that is the envy of the world, with a Supreme Court that is open to all with few, if any, restrictions on its jurisdiction.
• Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following:
• 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 US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
• Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.
• 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 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
• With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the US.
• Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
• On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
• Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12 percent 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 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.
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