For Israel’s Independence Day, we have prepared a selection of interesting facts about this country. And at the end of the article you will find witty Jewish proverbs.
Israeli cuisine is very diverse. It is believed to be a mixture of traditional dishes of all countriesfrom which Jews from all over the world flocked to this land.
In Jewish cuisine borsch cooked exclusively on chicken meat and add quite a lot of sugar, and beets are not stewed, but boiled.
Motherland cherry tomato is considered Israel: it was local scientists who bred this heat- and drought-resistant type of tomato in 1973.
Date palms in Israel they yield up to 150 kg per year, with an average yield of 14 kg in other countries.
Israel is one of the world leaders in exports aquarium fish.
Trading in Israel is accepted! Trading is like gambling, but don’t forget that it is too late to trade after a fitting or a long selectionand if you haggled about the price, you are already obliged to buy the product.
Israel became the first country to legally ban the work of too thin top models.
The subway in the city of Haifa is the smallest in the world. The length of the highway is 1.8 km, and the train has only four cars.
Interesting Holidays:
Since the time of Sultan Saladin, the plot of land on which it stands Church of the Holy Sepulchre, owned by two Muslim families. Every morning one of the men – members of these families – unlocks the gates of the temple, and at night he locks the gates and takes the keys home. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is the largest shrine in the Christian world.
Modern Israelis eat dates in any form: fresh and dried, frozen and after cooking. Date pulp is used to prepare silane – date honey. Dates can be used to make wine and even make arak, a strong alcoholic drink. And coffee lovers have already rated the drink for gourmets – Cappuccino from date seedswhich in taste are not inferior to coffee beans, but in terms of quantity and quality of useful substances they are significantly superior.
In most cases, the condition drunkenness will be a mitigating circumstance for the Israeli court.
The surface of the Dead Sea is located 425 m below sea level. The Dead Sea is actually a salt lake. Many people know that the concentration of minerals in the water is so high that it literally throws swimmers to the surface. If you want to experience unusual sensations that resemble weightlessness, it is better not to delay: the Dead Sea dries up by almost a meter every year.
The lowest freshwater lake on earth is also located in Israel. This is Lake Kinneret, which is 213 m below sea level.
Every year at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem more than a million notes.
In the country function close 40 kosher McDonald’s. The only kosher McDonald’s outside of Israel is in Buenos Aires.
Israel is the only country that revived the sacred language. Hebrew, for eighteen centuries was considered dead languagebut at the beginning of the 20th century it became the spoken and official language of the State of Israel.
The working week in Israel starts on Sunday. Working Israelis have one and a half days off per week, as on Friday, due to the onset of Shabbat, the working day is greatly shortened. Saturday, or Shabbat, is the main holy day of rest in Israel
Israel is the only country in the world where women are compulsorily called up for military service.
It was in Israel that the drip irrigation system, which is used throughout the country, was invented.
Israel has the largest number of museums per capita in the world. If we speak in numbers: more than 200 museums for 8.4 million people.
Israel leads the world in the number of personal computers per capita.
Israel gave the world such popular brands as Viber, Uber, ICQ, Fiverr and many others.
Cell phone invented in the Israeli branch of the Motorola company.
The Israelis were the first to teach computer science in schools.
In Israel the highest percentage of cancer patients treated.
Israel ranks eighth in the world in terms of average life expectancy (82.5 years).
Jewish proverbs
- It’s not as good with money as it is bad without it.
- No matter how sweet love is, you can’t make compote out of it.
- When there is nothing to do, they take on big things.
- God gave man two ears and one mouth so that he would listen more and speak less.
- God cannot be everywhere at the same time – that’s why he created mothers.
- Don’t be sweet – otherwise you will be eaten. Don’t be bitter, otherwise you will be spit out.
- Fear the goat from the front, the horse from behind, and the fool from all sides.
- A person should live at least for the sake of curiosity.
- The deaf man heard the dumb man say that the blind man saw the lame man run away quickly.
- The world will disappear not because there are many people, but because there are many non-humans.
- Every Jew knows better.
- Gold shines even in dirt.
- An ounce of luck is worth more than a kilogram of gold.
- Lord! Help me to stand on my feet – I can fall myself.
- Given a choice between two evils, the pessimist will choose both.
- Everyone complains about the lack of money, but no one complains about the lack of intelligence.
- Experience is the word people call their mistakes.
