moonstruck
5/19/2008 2:39 am
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Facts about the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population.
· Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
· Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
· Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
· Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
· Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
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5/19/2008 2:39 am
