moonstruck
5/18/2008 2:42 pm
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Facts about the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day - and saved three victims from the rubble.
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5/18/2008 2:42 pm
