POPULATION
• Israel has the 13th highest life expectancy at 80.73 years, above countries such as America and the United Kingdom. (2009 Estimate: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html)
• Israel’s population is 7,233, 701 ranked 98. (CIA World Factbook)
• 16% of Israel’s population is Muslim, 1.7% is Christian Arabs, 0.4% is other Christians, 1.6% is Druze, 3.9% is unspecified, and 76.4% is Jewish. (2004 Estimate, CIA World Factbook)
• 97.1% of the Israeli population over the age of 15 can read and write. (2004 Estimate, CIA World Factbook) Israel has 2 million internet users, ranked 61. (2007 Estimate, CIA World Factbook)
DID YOU KNOW THAT…
• Israel is the second biggest book publisher in the world.
• Israel is one of the few countries in the world to design, build, launch and operate its own satellites.
• Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free".
• When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in the world.
• The technology used by NASA to transmit videos to earth from the moon was developed by two Israeli scientists.
• The Israeli start-up company TransChip developed the first high resolution camera that fits on a single electronic chip for use in cellular phones.
• Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship and the highest rate among women and people over 55 in the world.
• Israel is the only country in the world to have simultaneous free trade agreements with the US, Mexico and Canada as well as the European Union and the European Free Trade Association.
• Israeli scientists discovered a new state of matter just between solid and liquid!
• Israel is ranked 3rd in the world for the of amount scientific publication compared to the size of its population!
• Intel’s branch in Haifa, Israel, is the home of many famous Intel technologies such as the Intel core2 processor.
• The “Firewall” was invented by Check Point, an Israeli company known worldwide for its work in information security.
Source: http://www.israpedia.info, a Project of StandWithUs.
February 15, 2010
Retired IDF officials: Abuse of Palestinians Rare
Former army seniors admit cases of abuse against Palestinians described by female soldiers as part of Breaking the Silence report occur but are rare. Former IDF chief of staff Amnon-Lipkin Shahak says incidents cannot be completely avoided
YNET
January 29, 2010
In Defiance of Demographic Fatalism
Author: Yoram Ettinger
