Israel may be a tiny country geographically and a small country in population, but it is recognized internationally as a giant in innovation — hence the bestselling 2009 book and informal moniker “The Startup Nation.” People all over the world are using innovative, even revolutionary, products and services created in Israel, even though in most…
She has been appointed to be the first Druze emissary for the Jewish Agency for Israel, with a focus on reaching out to U.S. college…
In the early morning of April 30, Israel suffered the worst civilian disaster in its history. An estimated 100,000 Ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at…
For the first time in six decades, Israeli researchers have uncovered additional fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls that date back nearly two millennia. The discovery, which was made in the vicinity of the Dead Sea about 25 miles south of Jerusalem, involved the dangerous exploration of a cave by the Israel Antiquities Authority. It…
The development of a cure for people infected with COVID-19 would be an earthshaking medical breakthrough and monumental game-changer for all of humanity. A treatment developed by Prof. Nadir Arber and administered at Tel Aviv’s Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov Hospital) has shown very promising early results. In Phase 1 trials, 29 of 30 COVID patients…
UPDATE | Jan. 7, 2021 | Israel has now inoculated about 1.3 million citizens, or more than 14 percent of the population. The United States has inoculated some 5 million people, or less than 2% of the population. Although the Israeli vaccination effort got off to a blazing, world-leading start, the program hit a snag…
UPDATE: On Nov. 27, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, considered the main mastermind of Iran’s clandestine nuclear weapons program, was assassinated near Tehran. Although there has been widespread speculation that Israel carried out the killing, the Jewish state has neither confirmed nor denied involvement as of this writing. Iranian leaders, for their part, have said they’re convinced Israel…
Sylvan Adams (b. Nov.1, 1958) is a billionaire businessman and philanthropist who left Canada in 2015 and made Aliyah to Israel. He is co-owner of the Israeli cycling team Team Israel Start-Up Nation, which competed in the recent 2020 Tour de France. Adams is Israel’s “self-appointed ambassador-at-large.” In Canada, he was a national and world…
Michael Ben Zikri (45 at his death) was an Israeli Jew who rescued a Bedouin Arab family from a sinkhole in a lake south of Ashkelon. Ben Zikri — himself a father of three — saved three children and their aunt. Tragically, he drowned in the process of effecting the rescue. His sacrifice has drawn…
Israeli non-governmental organization NALA: Advocacy Learning Action has a sent a team…
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed