What are some lesser known facts about Israel?

 

·         Israel is the only country in the world where women can freely move with machine guns in their back. It is interesting to watch these beautiful alpha females being armed. It is because the military training is compulsory for both the men and women.

·         Israeli bank notes have Braille on them so that the blind or the visually impaired people can easily identify them.

·         About 93 percent of Israeli homes use solar energy for water heating which is the highest percentage of solar energy used for household purpose in the world.

·         Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world.

·         Israel was the first country to ban underweight models.

·         The cell phone was developed in Israel. It was at Motorola's Israel R&D centre that Israeli engineers first developed original cell-phone technology. Most of the technology in your mobile phone can be traced back to Israeli engineering.

·         Voicemail technology was developed in Israel. From voice components developed for combat systems, an Israeli company called Efrat Systems created voicemail; eventually it became Comverse, one of the largest voicemail companies in the world today.

·         The first antivirus software for computers was created in Israel in 1979.

·         The first electric hair remover (epilator) was created in Israel. The first type of epilator was the original Epilady released in Israel, and manufactured by Mepro, in kibbutz Hagoshrim in 1986.

·         Israel is so small; you can run through it from west to east in two hours and from top to bottom in nine hours.

·         Israel is ranked first place in the world in the survival of cancer patients.