29 Awesome Facts About Israel You Probably Didn’t Know

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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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Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the entire world.



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Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.





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Israel Invented this.




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With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley)

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When Golda Meir became prime minister of Israel in 1969, she was only the third woman elected to lead a country in the modern world.


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The Sea of Galilee — located .212 km below sea level — is the lowest freshwater lake in the world (and the largest in Israel).
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9
The Dead Sea is the lowest place on Earth. Period.
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Israel is one of only three democracies in the world without a codified constitution.
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The glue on Israeli stamps is kosher.


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Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language and establish it as its national tongue!



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13
Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is the world’s oldest continuously used cemetery.

Occupied East Jerusalem? Yea right.

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14
El Al, Israel’s national airline, set the world record for the most passengers on a commercial flight.

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The world’s largest pepper was grown in Israel’s Moshav Ein Yahav, as recorded by The Guinness Book of World Records in 2013.


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Life expectancy at birth in Israel is at 82 years (two years more than the OECD average).

We sure are happy here!

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17
Israel’s national bird is the hoopoe!

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Heart tissue regeneration is possible in the U.S. thanks to Israeli stem-cell technology.

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An Israeli company has developed the world’s first jellyfish repellent.

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Israel is one of only nine countries in the world that can launch its own satellites into space.

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Israeli scientists have discovered the cause of chronic bad breath and an easy way to fix it!

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More than 44% of all lawyers registered in Israel are women!

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Israel has the world’s second highest per capita of new books.

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Israel’s national flower is the Cyclamen persicum.

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An Israeli inventor has developed the world’s first cardboard bicycle from recycled materials.

The bike is resistant to rain and sun, and costs around $9 each.

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

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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.

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

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Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East!