FLAG OF ISRAEL

The flag's blue color is not standardized, but mandated by the Israeli government to be a dark sky-blue, and the exact blue hue
varies between flags.

HISTORY OF ISRAEL

Ancient Israel: Manners & Customs

Daily Life and Customs in Ancient Israel
CUSTOMS

Ancient Israelite Marriage Customs Though there are some cultures in the Ancient

Near East which were matriarchal in structure, Israel's was not one of them. Israel's
family life was dominated by the husband (Pedersen, p. 61). When a
marriage occurred the husband took his wife from her home and "ruled" over
her,following the pattern of Genesis 3:16: To the woman he said, "I will greatly
increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your
desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you." (Preuss, p. 103). Yet
the Israelites "never went so far as the Muhammadan poet who says that mothers
of mankind are only 'vessels' which receive the children without leaving any
impress on them" (Pedersen, p. 61).

10 TRIVIA ABOUT ISRAEL

Israel is only 1/6 of 1% of the landmass of the Middle East.

Twenty-four percent of Israels workforce holds university degrees ranking third in the
industrialized world, after the United States and Holland and 12 percent hold advanced
degrees.

Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship and the highest rate among
women and among people over 55 in the world.

Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its
number of trees.

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

Israel has one of the the highest percentages in the world of home computers per capita.

Israel has been at the forefront of some of the major technological advances in recent
years, including: some of the development for the very first cell phone was believed to
have been done in Israel by Motorola (which has its largest development center 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, and voice mail technology
was also developed in Israel.

Israeli bank notes have brail on them so the blind can identify them.
Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world (after the U.S, Russia and China),
including an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s.
The glue on Israeli stamps is kosher.