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State of Israel
1. Israel is a young country but has an ancient Jewish history, 69 years old and independent since 1948 from the British.
2. Israel, Tel Aviv has the second most concentration of high tech startups outside of the U.S. 
3. Tel Aviv is home to one of the most beautiful women and men in the world.
4. Tel Aviv is one of most the gay friendly cities and is considered to be the gay capital of the Middle East.
5. Tel Aviv is the vegan capital of the world.
6. Jerusalem is the first city to be fully covered with WIFI.
7. Love cherry tomatoes? Cherry tomatoes was first developed in Israel in several labs in Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Campus. By Professor Nahum Keidar and Professor Chaim Rabinovitch.
8. The basic technology of instant messaging that Whatsapp, Messanger, Snapchat and everything that everybody loves spending time on was first developed in Israel, by Arik Vardi, Yair Goldfinger, Sefi Vigiser and Amnon Amir whom founded the company Mirabilis that invented the PC software ICQ, which is the basic technology of instant messaging.
9. Curious about those UAVs that the military uses them? Well the drone technology was first developed in Israel.
10. Israel is the largest drone exporter in the world, accounting for 60% and our biggest importers are from European & Asian countries.
11. Waze, the GPS app that saves us time from traffic is an Israeli invention.
12. Gett or previously known as "GetTaxi" is app that gets us cabs without having to wave for them, is an Israeli invention.
13. Israel is leading the world with Research & Development or known as R&D, we spend more share of our GDP than any developed country in this world.
14. Shockingly for those who live outside of Israel, Israel in the Global Terrorism Index in the 2000's was extremely dangerous and I remember the days, and according to The Economist in 2003-2004 Israel was #2 to be the most affected country by terrorism in the Global Terrorism Index. But now in the present, thanks to Israeli technological advanced powerful security, from #2 in 2003-4 to the present, Israel is now #36 as in 2017 Global Terrorism Index. We were surpassed by other developed countries such as the U.K #35, United States #32 and France #23. Germany and Belgium are getting close, Germany is #38 and Belgium is #40.
15. Israel is obviously the only Jewish country in the world.
16. Israel is #13 at Nobel laureates per capita according to Wikipedia.
17. Israel is the only true democratic country in the Middle East.
18. Since Israel's 60% is desert, we made the desert as a productive farm land and we help out other countries making their deserts to be productive farm as well.
19. Since there isn't a lot of water, we were forced into research and develop of water desalination and eventually we became a global leader of water desalination and we try to help out the world with water shortage using our technology and experience.
20. Hebrew is such an ancient language if all of sudden modern day Israelis meet our ancient ancestors from thousands of years ago, we can understand each other and have conversations.
21. Israel is among the ten leading countries with the highest life expectancy.
22. Mobileye that provides warnings to prevent car accidents is invented in Israel.
23. Israel is #3 in NASDAQ listing companies by country, #1 is U.S.A and #2 is China.
24. Israel is the second most important center for high tech and innovation in the world after Silicon Valley
25. Israel is nicknamed as the Startup Nation
26. In Tel Aviv, the area where the high tech companies and startups are located is called "Silicon Wadi"
27. Israeli scientists developed treatments for diseases such as Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and many more diseases and also discovered the cause of Halitosis.
28. The most multi-ethnic city in Israel is Haifa, where Jews, Christians, Muslims both Shia and Sunnis, Druze and Bahá'í live together.
29. In Israel but especially in Haifa is home to liberal Arabs, yes liberals, no moderates. Those liberal Arabs embraces secularism, feminism, gay rights, drink alcohol and enjoy the freedom and the equality that Israel provides. The women don't even cover themselves and the men don't really care.