| » | US-Israel two-way trade exceeded $18 billion in 2000. |
| » | Israel is one of the most highly educated countries in the world with the highest number of engineers, scientists and Ph.D's per capita (135 per 10,000). |
| » | Israel has the largest number of startup companies, in absolute terms, than any other country in the world, save the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech). |
| » | Israel is the only country in the world to have simultaneous free trade agreements with the US, Mexico and Canada; European Union and European Free Trade Association. |
| » | More Israeli companies are on the US stock exchanges (123) after the US and Canada, with market capitalization of over $33 billion, with two companies included in the S&P 500. |
| » | Israel is ranked #2 in the world for VC funds right behind the US. There is over $4 billion available for investments. |
| » | The per capita income in 2000 is over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK. |
| » | Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined. |
| » | Israel is one of the most secure countries in the world with which to do business. English is the official business language. |
| » | The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel. |
| » | Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel. |
| » | The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel. |
| » | Voice mail technology was developed in Israel. |
| » | The first PC anti-virus was developed in Israel in 1979 by the same company that developed the Melissa anti-virus program. |
| » | The world's most predominant company in internet firewall safety systems is Check Point, an Israeli company that controls 40% of the world's market. |
| » | AOL's instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company. |
| » | Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel. |
| » | Foreign entities invested more than $3 billion in the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, over 5% of the total market value of stocks traded on the TASE. |
| » | The credit rating assigned by Moody's for 2000 is A, and its short-term credit rating is P1, their highest rating available for short-term credit. |
