That Israel arose from the ashes of the Holocaust and has become a great nation is more than a miracle. It is the ongoing culmination of a long series of miracles.
Although at times I have given in to pessimism about the future of Israel, in fact, it is more secure and more dynamic than at any other time in its history. The threat from Iran looms, and the smaller threats from terror and the relentless attempts to delegitimize her persist, but it has been a long time since Israel has had to fight for her life against the armies of her enemies. Neither Iran nor the PalestinianTerror will destroy Israel; they will merely continue to force her to be on the cutting edge of technology and self-defense and will force her to do what she has always done best: harness the brains and the abilities of her people to protect her and make her great.
Yid with Lid has a 60th birthday round-up.
Judith Apter Klinghoffer offers the Israeli Declaration of Independence:
Provisional Government of Israel
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books.
Daniel Pipes describes part of the miracle of Israel, surviving in the World's worst neighbourhood and offers an interesting comparison:
Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan.
They make an interesting, if infrequently-compared pair. Pakistan's experience with widespread poverty, near-constant internal turmoil, and external tensions, culminating in its current status as near-rogue state, suggests the perils that Israel avoided, with its stable, liberal political culture, dynamic economy, cutting-edge high-tech sector, lively culture, and impressive social cohesion.
Continue on for just some of the wonderful accomplishments that Israel can be proud of on her 60th Birthday:
Israel, a nation the size of New Jersey, can only lay claim to the following achievements:
-Israel has more museums per capita than any other country in the world.
-Israel has the second highest output of books published per citizen in the world.
-Israelis hold more patents per person than do citizens of any other nation.
-More than 85% of all solid waste in Israel is treated in an environmentally sound manner.
-Israeli companies, Amdocs, Comverse and Nice pioneered voicemail, SMS and other cellular phone services.
-Israel has the highest concentration of high tech companies industries in the world, relative to it's population.
-ICQ, the technology that powers AOL Instant Messenger, was developed in 1996 by a team of 4 young Israelis.
-Israeli start-up company TransChip developed the first high resolution camera that fits on a single electronic chip, for use in cellular phones.
-Israel is one of only eight countries in the world capable of launching their own satellites into space.
-Israelis developed the world's first cellphone at the Motorola research lab in Haifa, that companies largest research center in the world.
-Israel ranks third, after the US and Canada, in the number of publicly traded companies on Wall Street.
-Israel has more scientists and engineers per capita than any other nation in the world.
-American industry giants such as GM, Ford and Lockheed Martin manage their manufacturing facilities using software written by Tecnomatix, an Israeli company.
-Israeli company Given Imaging developed a video camera small enough to fit inside of a pill. The camera helps doctors diagnose digestive tract diseases.
-Israeli scientists developed the first computerized radiation free diagnostic scanning device for detecting breast cancer.
-Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation in the world.
Not bad for the offspring of monkeys and pigs.
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