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Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world: 1,005 in the past 11 years, and counting.
The oldest tree in Israel is a jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva on the road to Eilat, which is thought to be between 1,500 to 2,000 years old.
Scientists in Israel managed to grow fresh dates from sixth century seeds found at Masada and Qumran.
The Israel Postal service has a special Letters to God department, for all the letters arriving in Jerusalem from around the world addressed to God. They are opened and placed into the cracks of the Western Wall.
About 1 million notes are left in the Western Wall every year.
At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre an old wooden ladder has been propped up against a window since the 18th century. No one can move it because the building is managed by six different churches and none can agree on who owns the ladder.
The immovable ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Israel is the only country to have revived a dead language and made it the national language.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in Israel was 54 degrees Celsius (129.2 Fahrenheit) in 1942 at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi in the northern Jordan Valley. (The highest temperature ever recorded worldwide is 56.7 °C in Death Valley in 1913.)
While Jerusalem has snow storms every few years, and even the Negev desert gets occasional snow, Tel Aviv has only had one snow storm in its history. In 1950 it snowed 12-18 cm., thrilling locals, many of whom had never seen snow before.
More than half the landmass of Israel is desert, but it still has an Olympic bobsled and skeleton team.
Israel dramatically leads the world in share of the total population that received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and in the number of vaccination doses administered per 100 people in the total population.
Israel is a global leader in medical clowning, and was the first country in the world to send medical clowns into Covid-19 wards.
In 2007, Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison initiated Good Deeds Day to encourage people to help each other. That year, 7,000 people took part in Israel. In 2019, 3.9 million people took part in 108 countries around the world.
Israel is bordered by snowy peaks at one end and a desert beach on the other.
Israel has 137 beaches – all of them beautiful.
The Nahariya beach at sunrise. Photo © Noam Chen
Israel is piloting a new locally-developed AI system to help lifeguards protect swimmers on the beaches and give real-time data on wind, waves and other possible hazards.
Israel recycles 90% of the waste water it creates, making it the leading nation in the world for water recycling. In the United States, only 1% of wastewater is recycled.
In July 2012, a group of artists in Netanya created the world’s largest mosaic made of socks, using 12,000 in total. (All of them clean, thankfully.)
Cows in Israel produce more milk on average than do dairy cows in other countries.
An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary spray-on skin made of nanofiber to help heal wounds.
Israelis love kids. With an average of three children per woman, Israel has the highest fertility rate among the 37 countries in the OECD, where the average is 1.7.
Israel performs more in-vitro fertilization per capita than any other country, and it’s free for the first two babies.
Babies in Israel are 10 times less likely to be allergic to peanuts than in other countries. Studies suggest it’s because they eat Bamba peanut snacks from an early age.
According to Hebrew-language Wikipedia, there are seven different ways to eat a Krembo, one of Israel’s favorite snacks.
Members of a voluntary organization called Trail Angels open their homes to hikers on the 1,025-km (637-mile) Israel Trail, offering free beds, showers and other amenities.
Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan.
The glue on Israel’s postage stamps is kosher.
Israel has over 50 alternative meat startups – a disproportionately high number compared to elsewhere around the world – making it a fake meat powerhouse. Perhaps it’s no surprise, given that the country has more vegans per capita.
Researchers in Israel have grown mouse embryos in bottles in a revolutionary way to observe the first stages of mammalian embryonic development.
In 2020, Israel was the eighth most expensive country in the world to live in. Switzerland came in at number one.
Israelis eat some 24 million sufganiyot (donuts) during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
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Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world: 1,005 in the past 11 years, and counting.
The oldest tree in Israel is a jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva on the road to Eilat, which is thought to be between 1,500 to 2,000 years old.
Scientists in Israel managed to grow fresh dates from sixth century seeds found at Masada and Qumran.
The Israel Postal service has a special Letters to God department, for all the letters arriving in Jerusalem from around the world addressed to God. They are opened and placed into the cracks of the Western Wall.
About 1 million notes are left in the Western Wall every year.
At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre an old wooden ladder has been propped up against a window since the 18th century. No one can move it because the building is managed by six different churches and none can agree on who owns the ladder.
The immovable ladder at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Israel is the only country to have revived a dead language and made it the national language.
The hottest temperature ever recorded in Israel was 54 degrees Celsius (129.2 Fahrenheit) in 1942 at Kibbutz Tirat Zvi in the northern Jordan Valley. (The highest temperature ever recorded worldwide is 56.7 °C in Death Valley in 1913.)
While Jerusalem has snow storms every few years, and even the Negev desert gets occasional snow, Tel Aviv has only had one snow storm in its history. In 1950 it snowed 12-18 cm., thrilling locals, many of whom had never seen snow before.
More than half the landmass of Israel is desert, but it still has an Olympic bobsled and skeleton team.
Israel dramatically leads the world in share of the total population that received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and in the number of vaccination doses administered per 100 people in the total population.
Israel is a global leader in medical clowning, and was the first country in the world to send medical clowns into Covid-19 wards.
In 2007, Israeli businesswoman Shari Arison initiated Good Deeds Day to encourage people to help each other. That year, 7,000 people took part in Israel. In 2019, 3.9 million people took part in 108 countries around the world.
Israel is bordered by snowy peaks at one end and a desert beach on the other.
Israel has 137 beaches – all of them beautiful.
The Nahariya beach at sunrise. Photo © Noam Chen
Israel is piloting a new locally-developed AI system to help lifeguards protect swimmers on the beaches and give real-time data on wind, waves and other possible hazards.
Israel recycles 90% of the waste water it creates, making it the leading nation in the world for water recycling. In the United States, only 1% of wastewater is recycled.
In July 2012, a group of artists in Netanya created the world’s largest mosaic made of socks, using 12,000 in total. (All of them clean, thankfully.)
Cows in Israel produce more milk on average than do dairy cows in other countries.
An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary spray-on skin made of nanofiber to help heal wounds.
Israelis love kids. With an average of three children per woman, Israel has the highest fertility rate among the 37 countries in the OECD, where the average is 1.7.
Israel performs more in-vitro fertilization per capita than any other country, and it’s free for the first two babies.
Babies in Israel are 10 times less likely to be allergic to peanuts than in other countries. Studies suggest it’s because they eat Bamba peanut snacks from an early age.
According to Hebrew-language Wikipedia, there are seven different ways to eat a Krembo, one of Israel’s favorite snacks.
Members of a voluntary organization called Trail Angels open their homes to hikers on the 1,025-km (637-mile) Israel Trail, offering free beds, showers and other amenities.
Israel is roughly half the size of Lake Michigan.
The glue on Israel’s postage stamps is kosher.
Israel has over 50 alternative meat startups – a disproportionately high number compared to elsewhere around the world – making it a fake meat powerhouse. Perhaps it’s no surprise, given that the country has more vegans per capita.
Researchers in Israel have grown mouse embryos in bottles in a revolutionary way to observe the first stages of mammalian embryonic development.
In 2020, Israel was the eighth most expensive country in the world to live in. Switzerland came in at number one.
Israelis eat some 24 million sufganiyot (donuts) during the eight-day holiday of Hanukkah.
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