- The glue on Israeli stamps are kosher.
- Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
- Israel has the highest number of companies listed on the U.S. Stock exchange after the U.S and Canada.
- 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.
- The most popular product in Israel is the soup nut.
- On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.
- Israeli bank notes have brail on them.
- Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.
- Israel has two official languages: Hebrew and Arabic.
- Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than anywhere else in the world.
- Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
- The two most common family names are Cohan and Levi.
- When Gold Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
- Jerusalem has one of the highest rated night clubs in the world.
- When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day - and saved three victims from the rubble.
- 1/3 of Israelis are volunteers.
- 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 the world's second highest per capita of new books.
- 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.
- Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
- Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
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