Did you know that both "Microsoft" and "Cisco" have chosen to established their R&D facilities (outside of the US) - in Israel?
Did you know that in recent years, all elevators built in Israel have special brail buttons for easy use for the blind?
Did you know that Yeshiva students who declare that their holy studies are their main path of life (and who do not work) receive a draft postponement, and in actuality never join the army? This is an ongoing public debate in Israel and as for now, all attempters to change the situation have failed.
Did you know that Israel's start up firm, by the name of "Given Imaging" had developed a uniquely small video camera?
Did you know that the world quality-of- life survey, published in October 2010, rates Israel the 15th (even ahead of Denmark!) in quality and length of living…?
Did you know that a special siren of one to two minutes is sounded in Israel, on the Holocaust Memorial day and on Memorial Day, by which the public in Israel stands at attention, in respect of the memory of the dead? It is customary that traffic stops and drivers step out of the cars, in order to stand attention during the sounding of the siren.
Did you know that of all Jewish holidays, Pesach (Passover) is the one most commonly observed, globally, even by otherwise non-observant Jews?
