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73 fun facts about Israel

To celebrate Israel’s 73 birthday, ISRAEL21c brought together a list of 73 weird, wacky
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and remarkable things about this tiny country in the Middle East that you most likely don’t know.

By Nicky Blackburn, ISRAEL21c.org, April 8, 2021
1. Israel has the highest number of al- snowed 12-18 cm., thrilling locals, that received at least one dose of 3.9 million people took part in 108
truistic kidney donations per capita many of whom had never seen the Covid-19 vaccine and in the countries around the world.
in the world: 1,005 in the past 11 snow before. number of vaccination doses ad- 14. Israel is bordered by snowy peaks
years and counting. 9. At the Church of the Holy Sepul- ministered per 100 people in the at one end and a desert beach on
2. The oldest tree in Israel is a jujube chre, an old wooden ladder has total population. the other.
tree in Ein Hatzeva on the road to been propped up against a window 12. Israel is a global leader in medical 15. Israel has 137 beaches – all of
Eilat, which is thought to be be- since the 18 century. No one can clowning, and was the first coun- them beautiful.
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tween 1,500 to 2,000 years old. move it because the building is try in the world to send medical 16. Israel is piloting a new locally
3. Scientists in Israel managed to clowns into Covid-19 wards. developed AI system to help life-
grow fresh dates from sixth cen- 13. In 2007, Israeli businesswoman guards protect swimmers on the
tury seeds found at Masada and Shari Arison initiated Good Deeds beaches and give real-time data
Qumran. Day to encourage people to help on wind, waves and other possible
4. The Israel postal service has a spe- each other. That year, 7,000 peo- hazards.
cial Letters to God department, ple took part in Israel. In 2019, continued on next page
for all the letters arriving in Jeru-
salem from around the world ad-
dressed to God. They are opened
and placed into the cracks of the
Western Wall.
5. About one million notes are left in
the Western Wall every year.
6. Israel is the only country to have
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