 Israel is one of only eight

countries in the world capable of

launching their own satellites.

radiation-free,

diagnostic

instrumentation for breast cancer.

One-half of all technologies in

development

Israeli

government-supported

incubators are related to

medicine.

 An Israeli company developed a

computerized system for ensuring

proper

administration

medications,

thus

removing

human error from medical

treatment. Every year in U.S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.

Israel has the third highest rate

of entrepreneurship in the world,

and the highest rate in the

world among women and among

people over the age of 55.

 An Israeli biologist developed

an all-natural mosquito and fly

control that saved millions from

death and blindness in China

and in Africa.

Israel as a country holds the

largest concentration of High-

Tech industries in the world per

capita, and as a region it is second only to California’s Silicon Valley.

Israeli scientists are developing

anose drop that will provide a

five-year flu vaccine.

In response to serious water

shortages, Israeli engineers and

agronomists

developed

revolutionary

drip

irrigation

system to significantly minimize

the amount of water used to

grow crops. This technology is

now

exported

and

used

worldwide.

More Israeli companies are

traded on Wall Street than any other country except the US and Canada.

Israel has more engineers and

scientists per capita than any

other country.

Israel also

produces more scientific papers

per capita than any other nation

– 109 per 10,000 people.



Israel’s

Given

Imaging

developed the first ingestible

video camera, so small it fits inside

a pill. Used the view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.

 An Israeli company was thefirst

to develop and install a large-

scale solar power plant, fully

functional in southern California’s

Mojave desert.

Israel has the world’s second

highest per capita output of

new books.

 Mercury Interactive, an Israeli

company that leads the world of

software

quality

assurance

tools, was named "one of the hottest software firms in the world" by Forbes Magazine in October 2003. Mercury's 7,500 customers include Cisco Systems,

Israel is the only country in the

world that entered the 21st

century with a net gain in its

number of trees.



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 surrounding skin or tissue.

Israel has more museums per

capita than any other country.

Israeli scientists developed the

first fully computerized,