21 interesting facts about Israel

  1. The glue on Israeli stamps are kosher.
  2. Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
  3. Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the U.S. Stock exchange after the U.S and Canada.
  4. 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.
  5. The most popular product in Israel is the soup nut.
  6. On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
  7. Israeli bank notes have brail on them.
  8. 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.
  9. Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic.
  10. Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than anywhere else in the world.
  11. Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
  12. The two most common family names are Cohan and Levi.
  13. When Gold Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
  14. Jerusalem has one of the highest rated night clubs in the world.
  15. 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.
  16. 1/3 of Israelis are volunteers.
  17. Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
  18. Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
  19. In 1991, during the Gulf War, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra played a concert wearing gas masks as scud missiles fired by Saddam Hussein fell on Tel Aviv.
  20. Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
  21. Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
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