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Start-Up Nation Health Holidays

20. Israel has the most lawyers per capita, 30. Israel is paving the way worldwide in terms 38. 75% of Jewish Israeli households light
more museums per capita and more orches- of the number of COVID-19 vaccinations Shabbat candles.
tras per capita than any other country in administered.
the world. 39. Water bar and refrigerator promotions
advertise Shabbat settings.
21. Israel tops the list of countries in annual
publication of scientific papers. 40. Israeli radio stations announce what time
Shabbat comes in every week.
Reasons to per capita rate of new books published. 41. Pet stores sell hamantaschen for dogs
22. Israel boasts the world’s second highest
ahead of Purim.
For a week in June, Israel holds Shavua
HaSefer (Book Week) to celebrate local
42. The IDF publicizes videos of its soldiers
literature.
eating matzah on Pesach.
Love Israel 23. Israel has more start-ups per capita than 43. Even in prison, prisoners enjoy a
anywhere else in the world, and is second
matzah-baking day and a Pesach Seder.
only to the USA in absolute numbers.
44. On holidays, public busses display signs
24. Israel is 0.1% of the world’s population,
but receives 20% of its cyber technology 31. An Israeli company designed ingestible saying: Chag Sameach!
investments. cameras that can help diagnose cancer
and digestive system disorders.
25. 12 Israelis have won Nobel prizes for 32. Israel became the first country in 2012 to
achievements in peace, chemistry, litera- outlaw underweight models from perform-
ture, and economics.
ing in fashion shows.
26. Motorola Israel is credited with having
invented the first cellphone. 33. Israel performs more in-vitro fertilizations
per capita than any other country, and fer-
tility treatments are covered by national
health insurance.

The IDF

34. The Iron Dome’s cutting edge missile inter-
ception technology has knocked down over Family
85% of missiles aimed at Israeli cities since
2011. 45. Israelis (including every subgroup) have
more children than any other Western
35. Upon being sworn in, every IDF soldier democracy.
receives a Tanach.
46. 62.5% of mothers with four or more chil-
36. Since 1953, when Israel was just five years dren work full time.
old, the Israeli army has come to the imme-
27. Waze and Mobileye are both Israeli diate aid of over 20 countries during times 47. In this baby-loving country, complete
start-ups. of crisis and natural disaster. strangers will offer to hold your baby for
you.
28. Israel has a theater of only blind and deaf 37. At age 85, the IDF’s Brigadier-General
actors, and a cafe with only blind and deaf David Laskov was pronounced by the Guin- 48. Bamba (the peanut snack) is one of the
waiters. ness Book of World Records as the oldest most common first words for babies.
soldier in the world.
29. The most popular Israeli song ever is Arik 49. In 2012, Israel ranked 12th out of 59 devel-
Einstein’s ם ָלוֹע ָה ת ֶא הֶנּ ַשְׁנ ה ָתּ ַאְו יִנ ֲא – “you oped countries for participation of women
and I will change the world.” in the workforce.

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