I’ve been reading a lot about burning Israel to the ground and people saying Israel is not a country etc. since morning, so let’s see why Israel as a country is important for growth, don’t come to conclusions, read and educated yourself first - Thread 1/n

Some facts about Israel first- The Modern state of Israel is only 64 years old
The population is 7.5M - 1.5M Arab Israelis (20%) and another .75M Orthodox Jews (10%).
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Israel is about the size of New Jersey - 60% or so of the land is desert and is quite useless!
33 Countries in the UN currently do not recognize Israel as a state.
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Arabs in Israel have more freedom and rights than Arabs anywhere in the Middle East, even holding seats in Israel's parliament, road signs are in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, so as to accommodate the fellow Israelis.
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Jews have lived in harmony with Arabs in Israel (Levant) since before Jesus (a Jew) was born. Only in recent history has their been a serious conflict.
Israeli hospitals routinely treat and save the lives of many Palestinians during medical emergencies.
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Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Christianity is growing and flourishing. Israel recognizes and celebrates 14 religions. This is in stark contrast to many of it's neighbors.
Haifa, is the holiest site of the Bahai faith. They preach tolerance and love
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The cell phone was first developed in Israel by Israelis working in the Israeli branch of Motorola, which at the time had its major development center in Israel. Much of Windows XP was developed by Microsoft-Israel. The Pentium MMX Chip technology was mostly designed here (7/n)

Both the Pentium-4 microprocessor and the Centrino processor were entirely designed, developed and produced in Israel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. So was VOIP.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their first foreign R&D facilities in Israel.
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Today, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco, and other huge players maintain a lot of they key development operations in Israel, either in the Haifa technology region or in the "Silicon Wadi" area. The technology for the AOL Instant Messenger ICQ was developed in 1996 by Israelis
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In addition to a large variety of other aircraft, Israel's air force has an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16's. This is among the largest fleet of F-16's in the world
The Israeli air force is widely considered to be the best in the world
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Israel's $244 billion economy is more than twice that of it's neighbors (Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan) combined. At one point, it was larger than all of it's neighbors, including Egypt, combined. Don't forget one important fact: Israel has no oil.
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In 1967, Israel (a 19-year old country) was attacked by Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, with forces coming from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Kuwait, Tunisia, Sudan, and the Palestinians. This was a war on every front. Within 6 days, Israel had l won the war
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In proportion to its population, Israel has the undisputed 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 U.S. 100s of which now have been acquired.
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Apple's ONLY international R&D center is in Israel. They are currently on a massive hiring spree.
Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world—apart from the Silicon Valley, U.S. You probably use a lot of their products, like Boxee, Fiverr, etc
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All Israeli men serve 3 years in the military. Women serve two years.
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. It's Human Development Index of 0.888 is the highest in the region, ranking it closest to Belgium and Denmark.
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The per capita GDP is over $31,000, just below that of South Korea and Japan, and above that of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and even Spain.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech startups.
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Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship—and the highest rate among women and among people over 55—in the world. Israel is the 8th happiest country in the world, despite obvious difficulties.
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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.
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Researchers in Israel dvlpd a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The device is synchronized with the camera helps diagnose heart's mechanical operations thru sophisticated system of sensors.
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A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the Clear Light device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct—all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
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Israel has offered to help build a Palestinian state on numerous occasions. Most recently, Yasser Arafat was offered 95% of the West Bank and Gaza, and the right to remove 69 Jewish Settlements (85% of the Jews living in the Palestinian territories).
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This deal included significant monetary reparations for lost Palestinian homes in 1948. Unfortunately, President Arafat rejected this offer, and never returned with a counter offer.
Israel is not a was one, its way more than that. Be kind and compassionate
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