{"id":933,"date":"2014-01-26T01:25:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T01:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=933"},"modified":"2014-02-02T15:43:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T15:43:23","slug":"facts-about-the-nation-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/facts-about-the-nation-of-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Boggling Facts About the Nation of Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

One cannot see all the miraculous changes that have taken place in the Nation of Israel since 1948 and not see the hand of God on this tiny nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geography
\n\u25a0Israel is only 1\/6 of 1% of the landmass in the Middle East
\n\u25a0Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan
\n\u25a0The Sea of Galilee, at 695 feet below sea level, is the lowest freshwater lake in the world
\n\u25a0The Dead Sea is the lowest surface point on earth, about 1,373 feet below sea level
\n\u25a0Israel is the only nation in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees
\n\u25a0Jericho is the oldest continuously inhabited town in the world
\n\u25a0The Mount of Olives in Jerusalem is the oldest, continually used cemetery in the world<\/p>\n

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Jerusalem’s City Hall – Any connection between Israel’s miraculous growth and her honoring the Sabbath? – Photo by Ian Norton<\/p><\/div>\n

Demographics
\n\u25a0Israel\u2019s population is half the size of Metro New York City
\n\u25a0Israel has only 2% of the population of the Middle East
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per capita in the world
\n\u25a0Israel produces more scientific papers per captia than any other nation in the world\u2014by a large margin
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest number of scientist and technicians per captia in the world\u2014by a large margin
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest number of engineers per capita in the world
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest number of PhD\u2019s per capita in the world
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest number of physicians per capita in the world
\n\u25a0Israel has the largest percentage of its workforce employed in technical professions in the world.
\n\u25a0Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation in the world, per capita
\n\u25a0Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the Christian population has grown over the last 50 years
\n\u25a0Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians, Muslims and Jews are all free to vote
\n\u25a0Israel is the only country in the Middle East where women enjoy full political rights.<\/p>\n

Economics
\n\u25a0Israel has the largest number of startup companies per capita in the world
\n\u25a0Israel is the world\u2019s largest wholesale diamond center, finally surpassing Antwerp in the 1970\u2019s. Most of the cut & polished diamonds in the world come from Israel
\n\u25a0Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies outside of the US and Canada
\n\u25a0 Israel was the first country to have a free trade agreement with the United States
\n\u25a0Apart from the Silicon Valley, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world.<\/p>\n

I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;<\/strong><\/em>
\n They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;<\/strong><\/em>
\n They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;<\/strong><\/em>
\n They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.<\/strong><\/em>
\n I will plant them in their land,<\/strong><\/em>
\n And no longer shall they be pulled up<\/strong><\/em>
\n From the land I have given them,\u201d<\/strong><\/em>
\n Says the Lord your God. (Amos 9: 14,15)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Electronics
\n\u25a0The cell phone was developed in Israel at Motorola\u2019s largest development center
\n\u25a0The Voice Mail technology was developed in Israel
\n\u25a0In the early 80\u2019s, IBM chose an Israeli-designed computer chip as the brains for it\u2019s first personal computers
\n\u25a0The first anti-virus software for computers was developed in Israel in 1979
\n\u25a0Most of the Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed in Israel by Microsoft
\n\u25a0Both the Pentium-4 and Centrino processors were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel
\n\u25a0The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
\n\u25a0Israel has the highest number of home computers per capita in the world
\n\u25a0The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ was developed in 1996 by 4 young Israelis
\n\u25a0Israel was the first Middle Eastern country to launch a satellite, the Ofek 1, on September 19, 1988<\/p>\n

Culture
\n\u25a0Hebrew is the only case of a dead national language being revived in all of world history. Hebrew had not been spoken as a native tongue by anyone for centuries. Today it is the native tongue of millions of people
\n\u25a0Israel has more museums per capita than any other nation in the world
\n\u25a0Israel has more orchestras per capita than any other nation in the world
\n\u25a0Israel publishes more books per capita than any other nation in the world
\n\u25a0Israel publishes more books translated from other languages than any other nation in the world
\n\u25a0Israel reads more books per capita than any other nation in the world.
\n\u25a0The most independent and free Arabic press in the Middle East is in Israel<\/p>\n

Military\/Security
\n\u25a0Israel has the largest fleet of F-16 aircraft outside of the US
\n\u25a0Israel has the world\u2019s most impenetrable airline security
\n\u25a0Israel spends more money per capita on its own protection than any country in the world<\/p>\n

Other
\n\u25a0Israel \u2018s dairy cows are the most productive dairy cows in the world. They average 25,432 pounds of milk per cow per year, compared to just 18,747 pounds from American cows; 17,085 from Canadian cows; 13,778 from European Union cows; 10,207 from Australian cows; and 6,600 from Chinese cows
\n\u25a0Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than anywhere in the world, and it\u2019s free
\n\u25a0Israelis, per capita, are the world\u2019s biggest consumers of fruits and vegetables<\/p>\n

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One cannot see all the miraculous changes that have taken place in the Nation of Israel since 1948 and not see the hand of God on this tiny nation. Geography \u25a0Israel is only 1\/6 of 1% of the landmass in the Middle East \u25a0Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan \u25a0The Sea of more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[76,77,78,75,80,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-biblical-spiritual","8":"tag-dead-sea","9":"tag-galilee","10":"tag-hi-tech","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-nasdaq","13":"tag-population","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}