Is there ANYONE who would care to condemn Israel for this one?
Genesis 22:15-18 (Genesis ch. 23 in Tanakh) says that, "And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son [Isaac], thine only son:
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice."
The Lord says, "in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."
Israel today is a technological powerhouse, with many inventions that have global benefits (blessings) for mankind -- for example, a pill with a camera that one swallows; the recycling of waste-water ( Israel is the number one recycler of wastewater in the world, with over 80% of its waste-water recycled). The UK's largest water company, purchased Israel's Mapal Green Energy water purification system for wastewater treatment.
The deal is set to supply Mapal-purified water to approximately 7 million northwest England homes. In 2008, Bill Gates said that "
nvention going on in Israel is critical to the future of the technology business."
Here's a partial list of Jews whose inventions have benefited mankind: Eugene Aserinsky - (1921 –1998), discovered REM sleep ; Paul Berg - b.1921, father of genetic engineering; Niels Bohr - (1885 – 1962), discoverer of the structure of the atom; Sergey Brin and Larry Page - both born in 1973, Google co-founders; Paul Ehrlich - (1854-1915), produced a cure for syphilis and invented chemotherapy; Arthur Eichengrun - (1867-1949), invented aspirin, though never credited; Einstein, no introduction needed for the man voted Person of the Century by TIME magazine. Francois Englert - b. 1932, one of original researchers on Higgs boson; Rosalind Franklin - (1920-1958), contributed to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA; Sigmund Freud - (1856-1939), like Einstein, no intro' needed; Milton Friedman - (1912 – 2006), influential economist; Waldemar Haffkine - (1860-1930) invented cholera vaccine; Henry Heimlich - b.1921, invented the well-known Heimlich maneuver which has saved countless lives from choking; Jerome Horwitz - (1919-1912) invented AZT, the first ever NRTI (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor). He created it to treat
cancer. But in the mid-1980s, it was found that Horwitz's discovery was effective in treating HIV; Bob Kahn - b.1938 invented (with non-Jewish Vint Cerf) the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP) in the early 1970s. TCP/IP made the reliable transfer of data possible between computers over a network, which led to the Internet; Albert Michelson - (1853-1931), calculated speed of light; Marvin Minsky - b.1927, foremost researcher in artificial intelligence; Emmy Noether - (1882-193) One of the greatest mathematician ever, we are indebted to her work in our understanding of the universe; Grigory Perelman - b.1966 — mathematician who proved the previously-thought-unsolvable Poincare Conjecture, which basically states that any three-dimensional space without holes is a sphere. His proof might help determine the shape of the universe; Albert Sabin - (1906-1993), invented oral vaccine for polio; Jonas Salk - (1914-1995), developed the vaccine for polio. Paul Zoll - (1911-1999), invented external pacemaker; Mark Zuckerberg - b.1984, invented Facebook.