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To prepare for Israel’s 70th birthday, here are 70 fun facts about Israeli food, culture, geography, academics and more!
Israel, a country the size of New-Jersey with less than 1/1000th of the world’s population, can make claim to the following:
- Israel has one of the highest concentrations of bird traffic in the world—500 million migrating birds cross its airspace each year.
- Every year, an Israeli Arab hotel manager named Jaaber Hussein buys all the state’s chametz (leavened products) for Passover.
- A green pepper grown in Moshav Ein Yahav claimed the record for the world’s largest, weighing in at over a pound.
- The most popular name for Israeli babies—both boys and girls—is “Noam.”
- Feeling adventurous? You can buy hummus-flavored ice cream in Jaffa.
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Beth Zuckerman
Beth is a former Upper Westsider, who made aliyah 8 years ago. She is a coffee addict and a lover of classical rock. Beth is the content and marketing manager at talknsave, in that order.
