Israel’s Economical

• Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.

• Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.

• 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.

• 24%  of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12% hold advanced degrees.

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

• Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.

• 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).

• An Israeli company unveiled a blood test that diagnoses heart attacks via the telephone.

• 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 U.S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.

• Over 65,000 patients worldwide have swallowed the first ingestible video camera, the M2A capsule, the incredible 'camera in a capsule' developed by Israel's Given Imaging. Used to the view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer 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

• The Israeli-developed Ex-Press shunt is providing relief for glaucoma sufferers.

• An Israeli research team has found that the combination of electrical stimulation
  and chemotherapy makes cancerous metastases disappear

• A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct - all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.

• Israeli researchers are playing an important role in identifying a defective gene that causes a rare and usually fatal disease in Arab infants.

• An Israeli company has been given a U.S. grant to develop an anti-smallpox first aid treatment kit.

• Israeli microbiologists have developed the first passive vaccine against the mosquito-borne West Nile virus.

• Israeli researchers are using video games to investigate future treatments for memory disorders such as Alzheimer's disease

• Israeli medical researchers have shown that lycopene - the red pigment found in tomatoes - lowers blood pressure

• Israeli stem-cell technology is being used in the U.S. to regenerate heart tissue.

• An Israeli company has developed a device that could enable millions of American diabetics to painlessly inject themselves with insulin.

• An Israeli medical delegation from the 'Save a Child's Heart' project recently spent two weeks in China performing open heart surgery on children.

• Scientists in Israel have used strands of DNA to create tiny transistors that can literally build themselves.

• An Israeli company has developed a new device for monitoring coronary disease that will be integrated into future generation of cell phones.

• Israeli researchers have developed a 'bone glue' that respectively stimulate speedy bone and cartilage repair, and enable faster and improved healing of injuries. It will reduce the need for bone transplants and heal bone defects caused by cancer

• Israeli researchers are successfully using magnets to treat post-traumatic stress disorder.

• Israeli scientists have created a DNA nano-computer that not only detects cancer, but also releases drugs to treat the disease.

• An Israeli company has developed the world's first jellyfish repellent

• A newly developed Israeli cooking oil is capable of breaking up blood fats such as cholesterol

• Israeli scientists have alleviated Parkinson's-like symptoms in rats.

• Israeli scientists are developing a nose drop that will provide a five-year flu vaccine.

• Israeli scientists have discovered how to turn mismatched cells into cancer fighters.

• An Israeli-developed device can painlessly administer medications through microscopic pores in the skin.

• Israeli researchers have shown that a daily dosage of Vitamin E is effective in helping to regain hearing loss.

• Israeli researchers have created a 'biological pacemaker' which corrects faulty heart rhythms when injected into the failing hearts of pigs.

• Two Israelis have won the 2004 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their groundbreaking work in cancer research

• An Israeli-developed elderberry extract is one of America's best-selling flu prevention medicines.

• An Israeli company has developed a simple blood test that distinguishes between mild and more severe cases of MS

• Israeli scientists have discovered the cause of chronic bad breath and a painless solution

• Israeli research has found that citrus oils may hold the key for asthma treatment

• An Israeli study has shown that anger may trigger strokes

• The Israeli desert has become a fertile ground for innovative aquaculture industries that are benefiting health-conscious consumers. Red alga is grown for its disease-fighting compounds, increasingly used as dietary supplements, and in cosmetics to protect against UV radiation

• Israeli research provides insight into formation of lasting memory - 05/04/05

• Isolation system protects against biological contaminants - 05/01/05

• Israeli research awarded for prostate cancer research - 04/10/05

• Israeli innovation replaces joints the digital way - 04/03/05

• Israeli therapy uses adult stem cells to treat Parkinson’s Disease - 03/27/05

• Israeli researcher identifies three genes that lead to longevity - 03/15/05

• Israeli researchers generate cancer-killing molecules - 02/13/05

• Israeli dental robot makes implants less painful, less expensive - 04/17/05

• Israeli software leads the way in speech recognition technology - 04/03/05

• Israel’s seeing-eye endotrachael tube - 03/06/05

• In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel. 

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

• 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 has helped farmers in Niger develop a horticultural production system called the African Market Garden (AMG).

• Israel sends medical teams and supplies to the Far East to aid victims of earthquakes.

• An Israeli company - Patus Ltd. - has donated thousands of its OdorScreen olfactory gel product to counter the crippling odors faced by on-scene Tsunami disaster workers.

• Israeli research shows that we can find out more about what is buried beneath the earth's surface by launching a satellite into the sky.

• Israel has designed the first flight system to protect passenger and freighter aircraft against missile attack.

• 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.

• On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.

• 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 the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita. 

• 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 U.S., 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. 

• The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. 

• Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. 

• Technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis. 

• The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979.

• An Israel company called Lenslet has developed a revolutionary electro-optic processor which operates one thousand times faster than any known Digital Signal Processor.

• An Israeli company is providing the technology behind an American all-electric bus for urban use.

• An Israeli-developed alogrithm enabled NASA to transmit images from Mars.

• Research by three scientists from the Haifa Technion made the transmission of video pictures Video transmissions from Mars by the NASA explorer "Spirit" have been made possible thanks to a unique algorithm developed by Technion graduates. 

• Israeli researchers have developed an engineless, nano-RPV (remote piloted vehicle).

•  Israel engineers are behind the development of the largest communications router in the world, launched by Cisco.

• Israeli technology is behind the successful testing of in-flight cell phone use. 

• Israeli bio-molecular computer can operate a billion programs - 03/22/05