Points of Interest
- Israel’s national bird is the hoopoe
- Dead Sea
If you have never heard about this sea, you should read carefully. In this sea, where there is no life at all, people can easily float due to the high salt concentration and it is almost impossible to dive into it.
The life expectancy at birth in Israel is at 82 years, which is actually very impressive if you think about it. For example, in Czech republic it is 78 years and we have got really good health service.
Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language (Hebrew) and establish it as its national tongue. Have you ever thought about learning Latin again?
Israel is one of only nine countries in the world that can launch its own satellites into space. For a small country like that is the possibility to get this opportunity really rare.
The Intel 8088 - the first PC CPU from IBM and the second processor from corporation Intel was designed in Israel, at Intel's Haifa laboratory.
USB flash drive – a flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. The Israeli company M-Systems (in partnership with IBM) developed and manufactured the first USB flash drives available in North America.