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Microsoft has more employees in Israel than it does per capita anywhere in the world.

Israel has won the Miss World contest once, in 1998. The winner, Linor Abargil, subsequently became known as a campaigner against sexual violence.

In 2009, basketball player Omri Caspi became the first Israeli to be selected in the first round of the prestigious annual NBA draft.

Israel celebrates its version of mother’s day on Shevat 30, the date that Henrietta Szold —the founder of Hadassah — marked her birthday.

The glue on Israeli stamps is kosher.

Israeli bank notes have Braille on them.

Beersheva has the largest number of chess grandmasters per capita of any city in the world

The largest known dog cemetery in the ancient world was unearthed in Ashkelon.

There are just 40 independent bookstores in Israel.

An estimated million notes are left in the Kotel each year — and cleaned out before Pesach and Rosh Hashanah.