Posted on 09/19/2003 5:26:40 AM PDT by veronica
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel has the highest per capita ratio of scientific publications in the world by a large margin, as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for VC funds right behind the US.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 is over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the US.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel.
Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
AOL's instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups
Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world, with hundreds of thousands of African birds of prey crossing as they fan out into Asia.
Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees -- ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland -- and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.
The data derived from the PPP method provide the best available starting point for comparisons of economic strength and well-being between countries.
If you want to compare two countries . .... this is how to do it.
Bogus, no kidding. Both the Washington Report and the American-Arab Anti Discrimination League have clear cut agendas, but I'm sure they're "fair and balanced". If you'd like to consult a clearly biased source (the US Government you can wade through either Israel: U.S. Foreign Assistance (US State Dept) or US Aid to Israel, US Embassy Israel. They come up with an aid figure of just over $87 billion from 1949 to 2002, exclusive of loans which they note in different sections, but what could they know. WRMEA in various compilations of aid, (I'm not going to bother wading through this one, I'll take the US govt numbers which are widely accepted outside the jihadist community) include multitudes of items, including investment by US companies and money spent by American's in Israel as "aid". Microsoft builds a factory in Israel, foreign aid.
A couple of items from the report.
Other Aspects of U. S. Aid to Israel
Israel's Debt to the U. S. Government
Of the more than $84 billion in aid the United States has provided Israel through FY2000, about $69 billion has been grants and $15 billion has been loans. In 1987, Congress added the Foreign Military Sales Debt Reform section to the foreign aid appropriations bill (P. L. 100-202), which allowed countries to refinance existing military debts carrying interest rates over 10%. At the time the bill passed in 1987, Israel owed the U. S. government about $10 billion (having paid off the other $5 billion), $6 billion of which was military loans bearing interest rates over 10%. In 1988 and 1989, Israel refinanced about $5.5 billion in military loans by borrowing money from U. S. commercial institutions at interest rates below 10%, and paying off the U. S. government. As provided in P. L. 100-202, the U. S. government guaranteed up to 90% of the commercial loans. As of December 31, 1998, Israel owed the U. S. government $2.560 billion in direct economic and military loans, and the U. S. government has a contingent liability (guaranteed loans) for another $3.844 billion for the refinanced military loans and Ex-Im Bank loans, and an additional $9.703 billion in contingent liabilities for the loan guarantees for settling Soviet Jews in Israel.
Loans with Repayment Waived
The United States has not canceled any of Israel's debts to the U. S. government, but the U. S. government has waived repayment of aid to Israel that originally was categorized as loans. Following the 1973 war, President Nixon asked Congress for emergency aid for Israel, including loans for which repayment would be waived. Israel preferred that the aid be in the form of loans, rather than grants, to avoid having a U. S. military contingent in Israel to oversee a grant program. Since 1974, some or all of U. S. military aid to Israel has been in the form of loans for which repayment is waived. Technically, the assistance is called loans, but as a practical matter, the military aid is grant. From FY1974 through FY2001, Israel has received almost $40 billion in waived loans. (Egypt also receives some of its U. S. military assistance in the form of loans with repayment waived. In 1990, the United States canceled $6.7 billion in past military debts that Egypt owed to the United States.)
Carlos, BTW, I love the ADC site. Issues close to lots of peoples hearts here. Stop combating illegal immigration, fight sanctions against Syria, file suit against the Patriot Act and, SURPRISE, reduce aid to Israel.
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It is pure insanity for the U.S. taxpayer to provide $85 billion dollars a year to a country that (as veronica so completely demonstrated) is the most dynamic economic power house in the world. Yes, it is Doc. Veronica, aid should be cut in half to $40 billion per year immediately. I hope other freepers will join me. Don't you love dimwits when they get a stick up their *ss. :>)
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Israel has a GDP of $110 billion, Massachussetts has a GDP of $289 billion.
You do not distinguish between different types of religious Jews. It is not true that all or even most religious Jews refuse to serve in the IDF.
Most of the haredim who apply for deferments live inside the Green Line. Virtually all of the ideological settlers are religious Zionists and they serve in the IDF.
I am haredi and my son is joining the IDF.
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