ISRAEL - Amazing Achievements

For a nation to survive in this competitive world, one of the most important elements is to have a large population. The more people, the greater opportunity to survive and succeed. The better the chances to lift up the nation, as with more people around, the greater the chance to have more talented and powerful individuals to advance the cause. 

This obviously doesn’t play out very well for our Jewish Nation, as we are very few, as the Pasuk testifies. Thus, when we come to conduct a census and find out how few we are, we may get very discouraged; therefore, the Torah says that the population, which is normally such an important factor, does not apply to the Jewish Nation, and the Jewish Nation shouldn’t look at the number of the people. 

Jewish people around the globe as of now, stand at 15.2 million, which is 0.19% of the 7.89 billion worldwide population.

[…] It’s interesting to note that the Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 900 individuals throughout the years, of whom at least 20% were Jews. 

In almost every field, Jewish people are excelling. From science, art, and innovations to technology, to genetic engineering and many other advances.

Israel has the leading number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000 people. Over 25% of the country’s work force is employed in technical professions.

Israel’s $100 billion economy is larger than all its immediate neighbors combined.

A non-Jew can’t fathom how Gemara works, a book with a bunch of words in Hebrew and Aramaic without any punctuation and boxes on the right and the left of the page.

The Pasuk says, when you’ll come to count the people of our nation, don’t count the amount of people, but count the endless amount of our contributions of our people and remember that we aren’t counted for our quantity but quality.

-www.jpost.com, 9 March 2023