Happy Birthday, Israel!

[JStone]

The most advanced, educated, successful and prosperous country in all the Middle East and one of the most in the world. Second most educated country in the world, $200 billion gross domestic product, 40th largest economy in the world and 30th highest per capita income in the world. Moses Rules!

Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft

I'd say that the quality of education is one of the key factors that's made Israel so unique and the great companies and partners we have here

Safra Catz, President, Oracle [3rd largest software company in the world]

Israel is an incredible source of entrepreneurship and brilliant ideas Many of the companies that grow in Israel become global players and if we can start with them early, as they grow globally they can become some of the most powerful companies in the world

Richard Lampman, Senior Vice President of Research and Director of HP Labs

What we have here in Israel are really masters of image science and informatoin theory, the whole concept of how we manipulate information for greater efficiency This is a cutting-edge community. If you look around the world, many countries that you visit you feel like they're a few steps behind the cutting-edge---When you come to Israel, you feel like youre right there

Stephen Bolze, President & CEO, GE Healthcare Technologies Worldwide [$14 billion]

GE is committed to technology innovation around the world and one of the high tech centers of the world we see is in Israel

What sets it apart is the spirit of the people and the commitment to inovation. We're going to continue to invest there because the opportunities that we see will help us grow our business around the world

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5pJELgG9yk]INVEST In Israel - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

John F. Kennedy

When the first Zionist conference met in 1897, Palestine was a neglected wasteland

I first saw Palestine in 1939. There the neglect and ruin left by centuries of Ottoman [Muslim] misrule were slowly being transformed by miracles of [Jewish] labor and sacrifice. But Palestine was still a land of promise in 1939, rather than a land of fulfillment. I returned in 1951 to see the grandeur of Israel

I left with the conviction that the United Nations may have conferred on Israel the credentials of nationhood; but its own idealism and courage, its own sacrifice and generosity, had earned the credentials of immortality.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom; and no area of the world has ever had an overabundance of democracy and freedom.

It is worth remembering, too, that Israel is a cause that stands beyond the ordinary changes and chances of American public life. In our pluralistic society, it has not been a Jewish cause - any more than Irish independence was solely the concern of Americans of Irish descent. The ideals of Zionism have, in the last half century, been repeatedly endorsed by Presidents and Members of Congress from both parties. Friendship for Israel is not a partisan matter. It is a national commitment.

The original Zionist philosophy has always maintained that the people of Israel would use their national genius not for selfish purposes but for the enrichment and glory of the entire Middle East. The earliest leaders of the Zionist movement spoke of a Jewish state which would have no military power and which would be content with victories of the spirit

The technical skills and genius of Israel have already brought their blessings to Burma and to Ethiopia. Still other nations in Asia and in Africa are eager to benefit from the special skills available in that bustling land
John F. Kennedy: Speech by Senator John F. Kennedy, Zionists of America Convention, Statler Hilton Hotel, New York, NY

 

[JStone]

Wharton School of Finance

Despite--or possibly because of--its small size and geopolitical isolation, Israel has developed a global reputation for its cutting-edge high-tech industry.

Israel today has the second largest number of start-ups in the world, after the US, and the largest number of NASDAQ-listed companies outside North America.

"Innovation, together with the engineering excellence and the very quick to market production of high-quality products, really makes Israel shine," says Zach Weisfeld, Microsoft Israel Director of Business Development and Strategy.

Israel has become one of Microsoft's three strategic global development centers, responsible for much of the new technology which Microsoft is now known for, such as its anti-virus software.

"Innovation, together with the engineering excellence and the very quick-to-market production of high-quality products, really makes Israel shine, Weisfeld noted at a recent conference in Washington DC, sponsored by the US Chamber of Commerce titled, "The United States and Israel: Building Business Through Innovation."
Israel and the Innovative Impulse - Knowledge@Wharton

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: "Microsoft Is As Much An Israeli Company As An American Company"

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer arrived in Israel on Wednesday for a three-hour visit to inaugurate Microsoft's new research and development center in Herzliya

The ceremony was attended by President Shimon Peres and leading hi-tech representatives. "Microsoft is as much an Israeli company as an American company," Ballmer said, adding that the proportion of Microsoft employees per capita in Israel was similar to that in the United States. Over the past two years, Microsoft bought five companies in Israel, adding to its two R&D centers in Haifa, which employ a total of 600 people. The new R&D campus in Herzliya has two buildings stretching over 13,000 square meters. Over the next year, Microsoft plans to add another 150 employees, bringing its total number of R&D staff in Israel to 750. Ballmer praised the IT sector in Israel for being very advanced, and said Tel Aviv, as the birthplace of many start-ups, was a type of Silicon Valley. "I know very few places around the world that offer such a variety of start-up opportunities, and we intend to continue to invest in Israel," he said.
'Microsoft is Israeli alm... JPost - Business - Business Features

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYQmsfw2v5I]Microsoft CEO Arrives In Israel To Inaugurate New Research A - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3FqQHk000Y]Steve Ballmer at Microsoft's new R&D center in Israel - YouTube[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmCCyRa0l6A]Microsoft Israel plans to take market by storm - YouTube[/ame]

 

[MJB12741]

Hard to believe all the contributions to peace, mankind & civilization Israel has given to the world especially when we consider what Israel has for neighbors to deal with. Israel well deserves the international corporate praise & investments in Israel to keep Israels economy strong & flourishing.

 

[Jos]

Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements

UK's largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets

The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements.

The UK's fifth biggest food retailer and its largest mutual business, the Co-op took the step as an extension of its existing policy which had been not to source produce from illegal settlements that have been built on Palestinian territories in the West bank.

Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements | World news | The Observer

 

[JStone]

Business Week Magazine: Israel's High Tech Hot Spots. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Mideast Nation Is Blanketed With Science Parks And Creativity Clusters.

Israel's flourishing technology sector has earned the nickname "Silicon Wadi" (Arabic for "Valley") thanks to its powerful mix of pioneering high-tech and pharmaceutical companies and world-class research facilities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The country has attracted global tech giants such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, which run major engineering centers there, but also has produced scores of homegrown innovators such as Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker. Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world outside Silicon Valley, and the most Nasdaq-listed companies of any country outside North America. For a look at 12 Israeli tech hubs, click on
Israel's High-Tech Hot Spots - BusinessWeek

Haifa: Israel's third-largest city boasts two world-class academic institutions, the University of Haifa and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, dubbed Israel's MIT, shown here. The city also is home to the country's oldest and largest high-tech park, which hosts research and development facilities for Intel, Philips, Microsoft, and Google, among other multinationals. IBM runs labs at the University of Haifa, and Hewlett-Packard at the Technion. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, the governmental company that develops weapons and military technology, is based here too.

 

[MJB12741]

We could go on endlessly talking about all of Israel's worldly achievements & contributions. But what about all of the Palestinians worldly achievements & contributions?

 

[JStone]

We could go on endlessly talking about all of Israel's worldly achievements & contributions. But what about all of the Palestinians worldly achievements & contributions?

IIRC, you initiated a thread with 14,000 posts on the subject with not one contribution. Not enough posts on the subject?

 

[Hossfly]

Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements

UK's largest mutual takes lead among European supermarkets

The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements.

The UK's fifth biggest food retailer and its largest mutual business, the Co-op took the step as an extension of its existing policy which had been not to source produce from illegal settlements that have been built on Palestinian territories in the West bank.

Co-op boycotts exports from Israel's West Bank settlements | World news | The Observer

"LET 'EM EAT TWINKEES"
~Dick Cheney

 

[JStone]

Business Week Magazine: Israel's High Tech Hot Spots. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Mideast Nation Is Blanketed With Science Parks And Creativity Clusters.

Israel's flourishing technology sector has earned the nickname "Silicon Wadi" (Arabic for "Valley") thanks to its powerful mix of pioneering high-tech and pharmaceutical companies and world-class research facilities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The country has attracted global tech giants such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, which run major engineering centers there, but also has produced scores of homegrown innovators such as Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker. Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world outside Silicon Valley, and the most Nasdaq-listed companies of any country outside North America. For a look at 12 Israeli tech hubs, click on
Israel's High-Tech Hot Spots - BusinessWeek

Yokneam: This town has developed into a high-tech center in recent years, thanks to its proximity to Haifa and tax breaks for businesses. One company based here is Given Imaging, which created a pill-sized camera as a noninvasive alternative to traditional endoscopies. Others include Surf Communication Solutions, an Israeli developer of hardware and software for voice and video data; MRV Communications, a California-based producer of communication equipment and optical components; and Marvell Semiconductor, formerly an Israeli chipmaker known as Galileo Technology until it was bought by California's Marvell in 2000.

 

[Jos]

 

[JStone]

Business Week Magazine: Israel's High Tech Hot Spots. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Mideast Nation Is Blanketed With Science Parks And Creativity Clusters.

Israel's flourishing technology sector has earned the nickname "Silicon Wadi" (Arabic for "Valley") thanks to its powerful mix of pioneering high-tech and pharmaceutical companies and world-class research facilities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The country has attracted global tech giants such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, which run major engineering centers there, but also has produced scores of homegrown innovators such as Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker. Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world outside Silicon Valley, and the most Nasdaq-listed companies of any country outside North America. For a look at 12 Israeli tech hubs, click on
Israel's High-Tech Hot Spots - BusinessWeek

Netanya: Netanya may be better known for its beaches and resident tennis champ, Maria Sharapova, than for its technological prowess, but the city is growing into a high-tech hot spot. The city hosts the Targetech Innovation Center, an incubator of high-tech startups, as well as Cisco Systems, Saifan Semiconductors, Finjan—an Israeli provider of Web security solutions headquartered in California—and Siano Mobile Silicon, an Israeli developer of receivers for the mobile digital-TV market like the one shown here

 

[eots]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asMYiAG6FqU]Spam Police - YouTube[/ame]

 

[JStone]

Business Week Magazine: Israel's High Tech Hot Spots. From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, The Mideast Nation Is Blanketed With Science Parks And Creativity Clusters.

Israel's flourishing technology sector has earned the nickname "Silicon Wadi" (Arabic for "Valley") thanks to its powerful mix of pioneering high-tech and pharmaceutical companies and world-class research facilities such as the Weizmann Institute of Science and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The country has attracted global tech giants such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft, and Motorola, which run major engineering centers there, but also has produced scores of homegrown innovators such as Teva, the world's largest generic drugmaker. Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world outside Silicon Valley, and the most Nasdaq-listed companies of any country outside North America. For a look at 12 Israeli tech hubs, click on
Israel's High-Tech Hot Spots - BusinessWeek

Ra'anana and Kfar Saba: These two adjoining cities about 12 miles north of Tel Aviv host a slew of high-tech multinationals including SAP, SanDisk, Emblaze, Texas Instruments, Hewlett-Packard, and Kodak. Other local companies include Retalix, an Israeli provider of software for food retail and distribution; Softier, a California developer of TV set-top boxes; and NICE Systems, an Israeli producer of emotion-sensitive software and call monitoring systems for the public and private sector. NICE's clients include the New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority, the Los Angeles Police Dept., and the Eiffel Tower.

 

[eots]

birthday ? so how long ago was Israel invented ????

 

[JStone]

birthday ? so how long ago was Israel invented ????

Open a history book, uneducated motherfucker

PBS: Civilization and the Jews

The interaction of Jewish history and Western civilization successively assumed different forms. In the Biblical and Ancient periods, Israel was an integral part of the Near Eastern and classical world, which gave birth to Western civilization. It shared the traditions of ancient Mesopotamia and the rest of that world with regard to it’s own beginning; it benefited from the decline of Egypt and the other great Near Eastern empires to emerge as a nation in it’s own right; it asserted it’s claim to the divinely promised Land of Israel
PBS - Heritage

Harvard University Semitic Museum: The Houses of Ancient Israel The Houses of Ancient Israel § Semitic Museum

In archaeological terms The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine focuses on the Iron Age (1200-586 B.C.E.). Iron I (1200-1000 B.C.E.) represents the premonarchical period. Iron II (1000-586 B.C.E.) was the time of kings. Uniting the tribal coalitions of Israel and Judah in the tenth century B.C.E., David and Solomon ruled over an expanding realm. After Solomon's death (c. 930 B.C.E.) Israel and Judah separated into two kingdoms.
Israel was led at times by strong kings, Omri and Ahab in the ninth century B.C.E. and Jereboam II in the eighth.

Harvard University Semitic Museum: Jerusalem During The Reign Of King Hezekiah--New Exhibition At The Semitic Museum Re-Creates Numerous Aspects Of Ancient Israel Harvard Gazette: Jerusalem during the reign of King Hezekiah

The Semitic Museum has installed a new exhibition that brings the world of biblical Israel into vivid, three-dimensional reality. "The Houses of Ancient Israel: Domestic, Royal, Divine" immerses the viewer in Israelite daily life around the time of King Hezekiah (8th century B.C.), creating an experiential environment based on the latest archaeological, textual, and historical research.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is a full-scale Israelite house, open on one side, filled with authentic ancient artifacts that show how life was lived by common inhabitants of ancient Jerusalem. Agricultural tools, a cooking area, and a stall occupied by a single, scruffy ram fill the ground floor of the cube-shaped, mud-brick structure, which, thankfully, is not olfactorily authentic. The upper story, reached by a ladder, is devoted to eating and sleeping.

 

[MJB12741]

Thank you for asking. Over 4000 years old. Sure glad I don't have to blow out all the candlers on that birthday cake.

birthday ? so how long ago was Israel invented ????

 

[patrickcaturday]

Thank you for asking. Over 4000 years old. Sure glad I don't have to blow out all the candlers on that birthday cake.

birthday ? so how long ago was Israel invented ????

MJB:
At least try to get your facts right !!! According to Wiki and other sites the ancient kingdom of Israel was founded around 1200 BC, so unless my math is wrong that places a gap of approximatly 3200 years between then and now. Not as you claim over 4000 years. Also in my opinion the time period should be conciderably shorter than that as there were long periods of time during that 3200 year period that the kingdom of Israel did not exist, the latest one being between 70 AD and 1948 AD.

Next time try researching the subject before you open your mouth

 

[Hossfly]

Thank you for asking. Over 4000 years old. Sure glad I don't have to blow out all the candlers on that birthday cake.

MJB:
At least try to get your facts right !!! According to Wiki and other sites the ancient kingdom of Israel was founded around 1200 BC, so unless my math is wrong that places a gap of approximatly 3200 years between then and now. Not as you claim over 4000 years. Also in my opinion the time period should be conciderably shorter than that as there were long periods of time during that 3200 year period that the kingdom of Israel did not exist, the latest one being between 70 AD and 1948 AD.

Next time try researching the subject before you open your mouth

Patrick, your tongue is faster than your brain. Why not compromise?

A Timeline of the History of Israel

 

[JStone]

Thank you for asking. Over 4000 years old. Sure glad I don't have to blow out all the candlers on that birthday cake.

MJB:
At least try to get your facts right !!! According to Wiki and other sites the ancient kingdom of Israel was founded around 1200 BC, so unless my math is wrong that places a gap of approximatly 3200 years between then and now. Not as you claim over 4000 years. Also in my opinion the time period should be conciderably shorter than that as there were long periods of time during that 3200 year period that the kingdom of Israel did not exist, the latest one being between 70 AD and 1948 AD.

Next time try researching the subject before you open your mouth

Israel has been occupied for long periods of time, however, no indigenous nation except for the Jewish nation has ever been established in Israel for the past 3000 years.

Your history lesson for the day.