The Israeli Air Force is the Fourth Largest in the World
Interesting Facts About Israel
Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the
population in the world.
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.
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).
Israel has one of the highest percentages in the world of
home computers per capita.
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds
right behind the United States.
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.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its
immediate neighbors combined.
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the
largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the United States. Israel has the fourth largest Air Force in
the world (behind the United States, Russia and China).
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.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000
Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in
1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship—and
the highest rate among women and among people over 55—in the world.
Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new
books.
Israeli bank notes have braille on them so the blind can
identify them.
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.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest
immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy,
religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
According to industry officials, Israel designed the airline
industry's most impenetrable flight security. United States officials now look
to Israel for advice on how to handle airborne security threats.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the
21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
