Israel

Israel has 5 UNESCO World Heritage Sites

• Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world.
• 40,000 people travel into the Palestine part of Jerusalem on a daily basis to work
  Israel has 137 official beaches.
• The Sea of Galilee — located .212 km below sea level — is actually the lowest freshwater lake in the world (and the largest in Israel).
• The Dead Sea is the lowest place on Earth. People can easily float in the Dead Sea due to its unusually high salt concentration. It’s almost impossible to dive into it.
• Eilat and the Hula Valley Reserve are some of the best bird-watching sites in the world.
  Israel has the best security module in the world.
• 43% of the world’s economy is held by individuals of Jewish origin

Important Israeli Personalities

• Larry Page – Founder of Google
• Sergey Brin – Founder of Google
• Natalie Portman – Academy Award Winner for Best Actress – Black Swan
• Bar Rafaeli – Super Model
• Guy Oseary – Madonna’s Business Partner

Israeli Inventions include

• Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both founders are Jewish.
• Lasers
• Pacemakers & Defibrillators
• Genetic Engineering – Heart tissue regeneration is possible in the U.S. thanks to Israeli stem-cell technology
• Stainless Steel
  Mass-Energy Equivalence – E = mc², is the concept that the mass of an object or system is a measure of its energy content. In some measure, this discovery led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
• Polio Vaccine