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Reasons to

Love Israel

Welcome Home only country with more trees today than
50 years ago.

1. Jews are returning home to Israel today 12. Over 500 million birds of 200 different spe-
after thousands of years of exile, from cies migrate through Israel twice a year,
all over the world. Some of the returnees from Africa to Eurasia in the summer and
include members of the lost tribes: Bnei back again for the winter.
Menashe from India, and Bnei Dan from 13. Israel recycles 90% of its wastewater.
Ethiopia. Spain is the runner up, recycling only 20%
of its own wastewater.
2. Kol Yisrael Chaverim – Israelis are unparal-
leled at helping a stranger in need. 14. Also highest in the world, 93% of Israeli
homes use solar energy for water heating.
3. Every two meters you walk here is a
mitzvah. 15. Israel boasts 25 wildlife protection
8. Har HaZeitim cemetery is the world’s programs.
4. Yerushalayim is the holiest city in the oldest continuously used cemetery. 16. Israel has the highest rate of vegans per
world, where the Beit HaMikdash will be 9. On Yom HaShoah and Yom HaZikaron, capita worldwide, an estimated five per-
built. cent of the population.
cars stop in the middle of the highway to
5. The glue on Israeli stamps is kosher. commemorate our true national heroes. Agriculture

6. In 2021, Israelis were rated as the 12th 10. 40,000 Israeli teens visit the death camps
happiest people in the world, and continue and ghettos of Poland each year. 17. The cherry tomato was developed by the
to rank among the highest. Agricultural Faculty at Hebrew University.
Environment
7. Birthright (Taglit) has funded 600,000 par- 18. Drip irrigation technology invented in
ticipants to explore their Jewish homeland 11. Israel is the only country in the world to Israel is used to preserve water around
the world.
– that’s the number of men over 20 – 60 have entered the 21st century with a net
who left Egypt. gain in its number of trees. It is also the 19. Israel has over 140 wineries.

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