With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
#Health
Israeli researchers are playing an important role in identifying a defective gene that causes a rare and usually fatal disease in Arab infants.
#Technology
New Yorkers are finding parking in their city a great deal easier with a new Israeli app called Pango that lets users locate, book and pay for parking spots via their smartphone. Other US cities in Arizona and Pennsylvania are also using the system.
#Environment
Israeli biologists have successfully managed, for the first time, to prepare the flowering of the “Madonna Lily” – a rare white Easter lily – in time for Easter.
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Israeli research has shown that dancers display consistent differences from the general population in two key genes.
#Social Action
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as “conflict free.
#Travel
The Waldorf-Astoria luxury hotel in Jerusalem hired eco-builders from a tiny kibbutz in Israel’s Negev Desert to provide the interior touches.
#Technology
Israeli researchers have developed an engineless, nano-RPV (remote piloted vehicle).
#Culture
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship – and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 – in the world.
#Health
Israeli infectious disease experts have been recruited by the World Health Organization to help prevent the spread of avian flu.