Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates.
For example, between 1980 and 2000, Egyptians registered 77 patents in the U.S. Saudis registered 171. Israelis registered 7,652.
A nice article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/opinion/12brooks.html
Israeli technology to help the world, some you might be using right now:
Instant messaging - Mirabilis
The firewall - Check Point
USB key technology - Dov Moran
Voice mail technology - Comverse Technology
Pentium 4 and centrino CPU chips
Most modern day cellular phone technology was R&D'ed in Motorola Israel. Motorola and Microsoft have their largest R&D centers in Israel. Windows NT & XP were programmed in Israel as well.
Religious Freedoms - Israel is the centre of three Abrahamic religious - Christianity, Judaism and Islam. While Jewish pilgrims crowd the Western Wall on Pesach, Christian pilgrims fill the Holy Sepulchre Church at Easter and Muslim pilgrims fill the Temple Mount at the end of Ramadan. Each religious community is free to exercise its faith and to observe its holidays. Each has its own religious council and courts, recognised by law and with jurisdiction over all religious affairs and matters of personal status such as marriage and divorce. Each has its own unique places of worship, with traditional rituals and special architectural features developed over the centuries.
Gay/Lesbian Rights - Since the 1970s there has been an active gay rights movement that has often affiliated itself with the Israeli feminist movement and various liberal and social democratic political parties. Common law marriages have been achieved as well as legal adoption for lesbian couples. Gay pride festivals run annually.
Women's Rights - Israel is one of the very few, if not the only country in the Middle East where women have the same rights as men. There is no educational gap between men and women and numbers of women occupying seats in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) is exponentially rising at every election. It is also one of the few countries in the modern world to have had a female leader (Golda Meir who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974).
Israel has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country. Israel also produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation – 109 per 10,000 people.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per head in the world. 24% of Israel's workforce holds university degrees. 12% hold advanced degrees.
Israeli scientists developed the first fully-computerised, non-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000 - as opposed to 85 in the US, 70 in Japan and 60 in Germany.
Jewish and Israeli Nobel Prize winners: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html
Israeli:
Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009
Robert Aumann, Economics, 2005
Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966
Jews are a famously accomplished group. They make up 0.2 percent of the world population, but 54 percent of the world chess champions, 27 percent of the Nobel physics laureates and 31 percent of the medicine laureates.
For example, between 1980 and 2000, Egyptians registered 77 patents in the U.S. Saudis registered 171. Israelis registered 7,652.
A nice article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/opinion/12brooks.html
Israeli technology to help the world, some you might be using right now:
Instant messaging - Mirabilis
The firewall - Check Point
USB key technology - Dov Moran
Voice mail technology - Comverse Technology
Pentium 4 and centrino CPU chips
Most modern day cellular phone technology was R&D'ed in Motorola Israel. Motorola and Microsoft have their largest R&D centers in Israel. Windows NT & XP were programmed in Israel as well.
Religious Freedoms - Israel is the centre of three Abrahamic religious - Christianity, Judaism and Islam. While Jewish pilgrims crowd the Western Wall on Pesach, Christian pilgrims fill the Holy Sepulchre Church at Easter and Muslim pilgrims fill the Temple Mount at the end of Ramadan. Each religious community is free to exercise its faith and to observe its holidays. Each has its own religious council and courts, recognised by law and with jurisdiction over all religious affairs and matters of personal status such as marriage and divorce. Each has its own unique places of worship, with traditional rituals and special architectural features developed over the centuries.
Gay/Lesbian Rights - Since the 1970s there has been an active gay rights movement that has often affiliated itself with the Israeli feminist movement and various liberal and social democratic political parties. Common law marriages have been achieved as well as legal adoption for lesbian couples. Gay pride festivals run annually.
Women's Rights - Israel is one of the very few, if not the only country in the Middle East where women have the same rights as men. There is no educational gap between men and women and numbers of women occupying seats in the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) is exponentially rising at every election. It is also one of the few countries in the modern world to have had a female leader (Golda Meir who served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974).
Israel has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country. Israel also produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation – 109 per 10,000 people.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees per head in the world. 24% of Israel's workforce holds university degrees. 12% hold advanced degrees.
Israeli scientists developed the first fully-computerised, non-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000 - as opposed to 85 in the US, 70 in Japan and 60 in Germany.
Jewish and Israeli Nobel Prize winners: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/nobels.html
Israeli:
Ada E. Yonath, Chemistry, 2009
Robert Aumann, Economics, 2005
Aaron Ciechanover, Chemistry, 2004
Avram Hershko, Chemistry, 2004
Daniel Kahneman, Economics, 2002
Yitzhak Rabin, Peace, 1994
Shimon Peres, Peace, 1994
Menachem Begin, Peace, 1978
Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Literature, 1966
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