L Israel is one of only eight
countries in the world capable of
launching their own satellites.
L An Israeli company developed a
L Israel has the third highest rate
of entrepreneurship in the world,
and the highest rate in the
world among women and among
people over the age of 55.
L Israel as a country holds the
largest concentration of High-
Tech industries in the world per
capita, and as a region it is
second only to California’s
Silicon Valley.
L More Israeli companies are
traded on Wall Street than any
other country except the US and
Canada.
L Israel has more engineers and
scientists per capita than any
other country. Israel also
produces more scientific papers
per capita than any other nation
– 109 per 10,000 people.
L Israel has the world’s second
highest per capita output of
new books.
L Israel is the only country in the
world that entered the 21st
century with a net gain in its
number of trees.
L Israel has more museums per
capita than any other country.
L Israeli scientists developed the
first fully computerized,
radiation-free, diagnostic
instrumentation for breast cancer.
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.
L Israel’s Given Imaging
developed the first ingestible
video camera, so small it fits inside
a pill. Used the view the small
intestine from the inside, the camera
helps doctors diagnose cancer and
digestive disorders.
L A new acne treatment
developed in Israel, the ClearLight
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.
L One-half of all technologies in
development at Israeli
government-supported
incubators are related to
medicine.
L An Israeli biologist developed
an all-natural mosquito and fly
control that saved millions from
death and blindness in China
and in Africa.
L Israeli scientists are developing
a nose drop that will provide a
five-year flu vaccine.
L In response to serious water
shortages, Israeli engineers and
agronomists developed a
revolutionary drip irrigation
system to significantly minimize
the amount of water used to
grow crops. This technology is
now exported and used
worldwide.
L An Israeli company was the first
to develop and install a large-
scale solar power plant, fully
functional in southern California’s
Mojave desert.
L Mercury Interactive, an Israeli
company that leads the world of
software quality assurance
tools, was named "one of the
hottest software firms in the
world" by Forbes Magazine in
October 2003. Mercury's 7,500
customers include Cisco Systems,
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L ICQ - The technology for AOL
Instant Messenger was
developed in 1996 by a
company called Mirabilis,
founded by four young Israelis.
L The first PC anti-virus was
developed in Israel in 1979 by
the same company that
developed the Melissa anti-virus
program.
L Most of the Windows NT
operating system was developed
by Microsoft’s Israel labs.
L ZIP compression, commonly used
today, was developed by two
Israeli professors in the Technion
L American industry giants such
as Ford, GM, Boeing, GE Aircraft
Engines, Lockheed Martin, all
manage their manufacturing
processes using software from the
Israeli company Tecnomatix.
L Intel’s new high-speed Centrino
processor – which doubles
battery life on laptops – was
developed entirely in Israel.
L New, paper-thin, super-light-
weight batteries for laptops and
cellular phones are pioneered at
the Israeli company Electric Fuel.
L The Israeli companies Amdocs,
Comverse and Nice Systems all
pioneered Voicemail, SMS and
many other telephone and
cellular phone services.
L Israeli engineers developed the
first cell phone at Motorola's lab
in Haifa, its largest research
center in the world.
L The price of phone calls, and
especially long distance and
overseas calls, dropped
significantly over the past
decade thanks to voice over IP
and DCME technologies which
were invented in Israel.
L Checkpoint, an Israeli Company,
pioneered Internet and network
security technology such as the
Firewall, and is considered the
world leader in the field. Since its
founding in 1993, the company
has installed its products at more
than 250,000 sites, including 90
percent of the Fortune 500
companies.
L When the U.S. Embassy in
Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in
1998, Israeli rescue teams
were on the scene within a day
and saved victims from the
rubble.
L When an earthquake struck
Western India in January 2001,
Israel sent an entire field
hospital, including medical staff
and equipment, to help treat
injured civilians.
L Iraqi children who suffered
severe burns in the recent war
are being treated at the world-
renowned burn center at
Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
L Israeli doctors formed Save a
Child's Heart (SACH), to perform
corrective heart surgery on
children in developing
countries. The organization not
only performs the medical
operations, but also trains local
doctors and, together with
MASHAV donates equipment.
L Israel ranks 3rd in the world,
after Norway and Denmark in
GDP expenditure per primary
and secondary school student.
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