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ISRAEL21c brings together some of the biggest achievements that have come out of Israel.

Technology

• Israel has designed the first flight system to protect passenger and freighter aircraft against missile attack.

• Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin – 109 per 10,000 people – as well as one of the highest percapita rates of patents filed...

• Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US....

• Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

• 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.

• The first PC anti-virus software was developed in Israel in 1979.

• An Israeli company M-Systems was the first to patent and introduce the disk on key.

• A team of Israeli and US researchers has designed a watermelon-picking robot endowed with artificial vision to do the job of harvesting.

• A small Israel company called Lenslet has developed a revolutionary electro-optic processor which operates one thousand times faster than any known Digital Signal Processor.

• An Israeli-developed alogrithm enabled NASA to transmit images from Mars....

• Israeli researchers have developed an engineless, nano-RPV (remote piloted vehicle)...

• Israel engineers are behind the development of the largest communications router in the world, launched by Cisco...

• An Israeli physicist-turned-inventor has developed the world’s first air-conditioned motorcycle.

• Jerusalem-based SnapKeys is bringing smartphone users a whole new way to type ? with an invisible keyboard.

• A new Israeli iPhone and iPad app called GroupShot flawlessly cobbles together the best images from a variety of group shots where somebody’s blinking, yawning or clowning...

• An Israeli smartphone app already in use worldwide enables drivers to avoid jams, and navigate their way through crowded city streets, using data from their phone’s GPS...

• Intel has sold more than $5 billion worth of the Israeli-developed Centrino chipsets since they were introduced in March 2003.

• An Israeli company has developed the world’s first video ringtones for cell phones – the Vringo.

• Voice over internet protocol (VoIP) technology was pioneered in Israel.

• Bill Gates called Israel a major player in the high tech world...

• Motorola has its largest R&D center outside of the US in Israel.

• Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.

• The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.

• Voice mail technology was developed in Israel...

• With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of high-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).

• Prof. Robert Aumann is the fourth Israeli in the last four years to win a Nobel prize

.• Israeli technology is behind the successful testing of in-flight cell phone use.