Israel At 70
https://www.jewishboston.com/israel-70-fun-facts-for-70-years/
- Cherry tomatoes were engineered in Israel.
- Israel is the only county to have more trees today than it did 50 years ago.
- After Tokyo and New York City, Tel Aviv has the most sushi restaurants per capita.
- People of the book: Israel publishes more books per capita than any other country.
- Israel has the world’s highest rate of entrepreneurship among women.
- Israel has the highest number of university degrees per capita than any other country.
- Buses around Israel have signs that quote the biblical passage, “You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old.”
- One million notes are left in the Kotel (Western Wall) each year. They are cleaned out twice a year, before Passover and Rosh Hashanah.
- Beersheva has the largest number of chess grandmasters per capita of any city in the world.
- Israeli bank notes have Braille on them to assist the blind.
- Microsoft has more employees in Israel than it does per capita anywhere in the world.
- Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world.
- Israel has more orchestras per capita than any other country.
- Israeli academics produce more scientific papers per capita than anywhere else in the world.
- Israel has more computers per capita than any other country.
- Israel is the only country in the Middle East where the number of Christians is increasing.
- Relative to its population, Israel has absorbed more immigrants than any other country, with newcomers from more than 100 countries.
- Voicemail technology was developed in Israel.
- Life expectancy in Israel is among the highest in the world, at 82 years.
- Israel has won more Nobel Prizes than all other Middle East countries combined.
- Jerusalem has over 1,500 public parks and gardens.
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