Interesting facts about Israel- thanks for opening my eyes!I realize why we are allie
 

Israel is one of the tiniest nations on the face of the earth... only about 8,000 sq. miles, 2½ times the size of Rhode Island and only slightly larger than the Canary Islands! It is only 260 miles at its longest, has a 112-mile coastline, is 60 miles at its widest, and only between 3 and 9 miles at its narrowest [from the Mediterranean Sea to the edge of the "Green Line"! [see map below] A very high-powered rifle could launch a projectile right across the country!
With a population of less than 5½ million Jews (less than 1/1000th of the world's population) and confronted with 55 years of unrelenting Arab te rrorism, she can still proudly claim the following:
An aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s,
the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the US.
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.

Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
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 startups.

Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world, with hundreds of thousands of African birds of prey crossing as they fan out into Asia.

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, she airlifted to safety into Israel
a total of 22,000 black Ethiopian Jews.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.

Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.

Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
When the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed by Arabs 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.
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline industry's most impenetrable flight security. US officials now look to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.

Israel's Maccabi basketball team won the European championships in a977 and 2001.

Israeli tennis player Anna Smashnova is the 15th ranked female player in the world.

Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers was produced by Haim Saban, an Israeli whose family fled pe 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.
Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.

Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.

Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic.
rsecution in Egypt.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century
with a net gain in its number of trees. Please plant a tree in Israel
Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.

An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in US hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.

Israel's Givun 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 can Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart
pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those
with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's
mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in US hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).

In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.
cer and digestive disorders.
Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart
pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those
with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's
mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in US hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and startups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).

In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.

Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. In addition, "Project Banias," also carried out at the Israeli Intel Israel Design Center, produced the Intel Centrino processor for laptops.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the US, over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.


The technology for AOL Instant Messenger
was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.
A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrowband blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct -- all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.

An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert.

The first PC Anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979.
AND LOTS, LOTS MORE!
Maybe THIS is why the Arabs hate us?
And Speaking of the Arabs...


What Great Contributions To Mankind
Have THEY Made Lately?
How DOES the Arab world compare? Wealthy Arab leaders spend millions of petro-dollars promoting extremist Islam in the West while many of their people lack basic amenities like food and education. Many of them secretly indulge in the same immoral vices they publicly condemn, bribe Western leaders into turning a blind eye to their despotism and deflect the frustrations of their populations away from themselves by scape-goating those "infidels," the Israelis! Some other Arabs have been either detonating themselves or talking others into it--murdering civilians young and old--and spreading hate-filled lies to incite "Jihad" against Americans, Christians and Jews. Degenerate leaders, Islamicist propaganda, anti-Semitic rantings, and a culture of revenge have truly turned the Arab World upside-down and inside-out! Their people deserve our pity more than our respect.

http://masada2000.org/israel-stats.html

cliff notes....blah without the billions the u.s. send every year to them..they would be just anouther broke ass country(we'll they are not actullay a country) broke site in the m.e.

Blah Blah cliff notes...read the damn contributions to science and, when you are dying and in dire need of some new technology to save your life im sure all your porn research that you do all day will help you!
Next time read something before you comment.:ak47:

You could compile a list of accomplishments similar to that, and longer, for just about any country.

And i'm sure you could right a brief and vague paragraph about any country and condem them for the actions of a few people.

And you have the nerve to bring up propaganda. :1orglaugh

And no. I'm not anti-israel or pro-arab. I don't give a fuck what they do to eachother.

why is Israel banned among most adult sponsors?

yeah you might be right but probably NOT, the idea is they are such a small country with so little amount of people and they are first or second in all those catagories FROM THE WHOLE WORLD, its like having Rhode Island with the largest economy and contributions of the Middle east, or even smaller its like having all people that live in new york from 10, st to 23rd st having more contributions than most countries in the WORLD Propaganda? hell no just amazing stuff!

I LOVE ISRAEL AND EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR!

prove it

1.a. The following countries are ineligible to have accounts with Slickcash:
....... Israel, etc


convince Greg to unban Israel from his programs :)

Well they do spend a lot of their time protecting themsleves from terrorists.

The US government and private citizens give Israel $1 Billion a month. They better be the best at that price.

Yes. It's impressive. But plenty of other countries have plenty of other impressive achievements.

I'm sure someone could make a list of the achievements of an arab country, and then write some totally subjective paragraph about the US being nothing but war mongering pigs and it would have an uncanny resemblence to your post.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by AvsTgp
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.
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Those stats seem off

yes

Facts man, facts. He put his up, where are yours? Anyone can conjecture wildly but until you back it up with something, anything, then it's meaningless.

I'd love to see the great contributions to society made by any Arab nation in the past 60 years. Besides being lucky enough to be sitting on 75% of the world's oil reserves somehow I just don't think they'll stack up quite the same way.

That's just my :2 cents: of course.

A small list of mathematical contributions:

Arab contributions to mathematics and the introduction of the Zero
Regional, Science, 4/22/1998

Arab contributions to human civilization are noteworthy. In arithmetic the style of writing digits from right to left is an evidence of its Arab origin. For instance, the numeral for five hundred in English should be written as 005, not as 500 according to English's left-to-right reading style.

Another invention that revolutionized mathematics was the introduction of the number zero by Muhammad Bin Ahmad in 967 AD. Zero was introduced in the West as late as the beginning of the thirteenth century. Modern society takes the invention of the zero for granted, yet the Zero is a non-trivial concept, that allowed major mathematical breakthroughs.

Arab civilizations also made a great contribution to fractions and to the principle of errors, which is employed to solve Algebra problems arithmetically.

Concerning Algebra, al-Khawarzmi is credited with the first treatise. He solved Algebra equations of the first and second degree (known as quadratic equations, and are are prevelant in science and engineering) and also introduced the geometrical method of solving these equations.

He also recognized that quadratic equations have two roots. His method was continued by Thabet Bin Qura, the translator of Ptolemy's works who developed Algebra and first realized application in geometry. By the 11th century the Arabs had founded, developed and perfected geometrical algebra and could solve equations of the third and fourth degree.

Another outstanding Arab mathematician is Abul Wafa who created and successfully developed a branch of geometry which consists of problems leading to equations in Algebra of a higher degree than the second. He made a number of valuable contributions to polyhedral theory.

Al-Karaki, of the 11th century is considered to be one of the greatest Arab mathematicians. He composed one arithmetic book and another on Algebra. In the two books, he developed an approximate method of finding square roots, a theory of indices, a theory of mathematical induction and a theory of intermediate quadratic equations.

Arabs have excelled in geometry, starting with the transition of Euclid and conic section of Apolonios and they preserved the genuine works of these two Greek masters for the modern world, by the 9th century AD. and then started making new discoveries in this domain.

In his book translated by Roger Bacon, Ibn al-Haitham wrote a book on geometrical optics, dealing with problems that would be difficult to solve even now.

It is also at the hand of the Arabs that the geometry of conic sections was developed to a great extent.

However, Arab achievements in this field were crowned by the discovery made by Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hassan, known as Nassereddine al-Tusi. Al-Tusi separated trigonometry from astronomy. This contribution recognizes and explains weakness in Euclid's theory of parallels, and thereby may thus be credited as founder of non-Euclidian geometry.

Taken from http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Dail...998042208.html

To say that Arabs haven't contributed anything is nothing short of ignorant.

And i just noticed that you said in the last 60 years. I'm not prepared to really look into this, as i really don't care that much. But their contributions to the world have been huge.

http://www.adc.org/index.php?id=247

Classic reading but not comprehending. I distinctly said in the last 60 years.

OK, then I retract my previous post.

There's no question of their contributions made to society over the last 2,000 years but I was more interested in the same period of time that Israel has been a Democracy.

In 1000 years there are no more books published in the whole arabic world than in Spain in one year......

there are several reasons:
- many sponsors copy their terms from other sponsors. I've seen it a lot

- many ban Israel because of it's geographic location. They ban muslim countries in asia like Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel is around so they ban it too..I'm sure they don't put much thought into this.

besides, I live in Israel and had no problems joining any sponsor. I have received payments from ARS, NastyDollars, Top Bucks and others that "ban israel"

you're forgetting one simle fact.
Arab countries in the middle east are far from being broke.
They got so much oil that they could have been the most successful countries in the world, but still, except their leaders who live like kings, the people there don't have food to eat

Is New York not fka New Amsterdam is Haarlem not a city in Holland, is (new) Zeeland not a province in Holland? Are the Yankees not called after the two most known first names in Holland? Is it Dutch they speak in South Africa? And nobody hates the Dutch? Is it because we are so well aducated :Graucho

Israel is also the country with the most illegal WMD's They deny the existence of nukes but still have lots them secretly. US intelligence (actually everyone with half a brain) knows about it but officially the US claims that it can't be true since Israel never tested any nukes so they cant have them
:Graucho .

With all that education and they still cant understand the word 'theft'.