The Power of a Promise

Cutting travel time from 35 min to less than 6 min!

The State of Israel’s promise is to manage your Israel Bonds investments for the good of the nation. This promise is made possible by the ongoing building, repairing, and upgrading of public infrastructure.

A strong economy with an advanced infrastructure is key to the exciting building of Israel. This creates the ground where private initiatives can flourish, benefiting citizens and tourists alike.

The Carmel Tunnels Mega-Project is one such example.

The Carmel Tunnels are a set of road tunnels that serve as a major transportation link in and around Haifa. Haifa is one of Israel’s fastest growing regions and home to a considerable portion of Israel’s high technology industries.

The tunnel’s main purpose is to reduce road congestion in the Haifa area and to provide an alternate route for reaching the eastern and central parts of the city.

The tunnels cut the current travel time of 30-50 minutes down to less than 6 minutes.

The entire project runs 6.5 km long. The tunnels bored into the Carmel mountain range, essentially under the city of Haifa.

Life-Saving Infrastructure

The State of Israel’s promise is to manage your Israel Bonds investments for the good of the nation. This promise is made possible by the ongoing building, repairing, and upgrading of public infrastructure. This now includes life-saving structures that will protect Israel’s citizens during times of hostile attacks.

A strong economy with an advanced infrastructure is key to the continuous building of Israel. This creates the ground where private initiatives can flourish.

Life-Saving Infrastructure is one such example.

In these times of constant threats from missile attacks, there is a critical need for hundreds of millions of dollars in life-saving infrastructure in schools, playgrounds, hospitals and other public and private buildings. Some recent examples are the construction of heavily fortified Emergency Rooms and Triage units in two of Israel’s most important hospitals: one in Haifa and one in Ashkelon: two major cities which have experienced missile attacks. The Haifa Rambam hospital will have the priority use of completely underground fortified facilities — a fully-functional 2,000 patient underground hospital. This hospital area will be protected against conventional weapons, such as direct missile attacks, as well as the unconventional threats of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. During the Second Lebanon War, in the summer of 2006, the Rambam Health Care Campus admitted hundreds of wounded patients, soldiers and civilians, to an old, crowded and unprotected emergency room. As this took place, missiles were falling in areas adjacent to the hospital.

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The State of Israel’s promise is to strengthen a nation whose innovations benefit the world. This promise is made possible by continuously building, repairing, and upgrading public infrastructure.

A strong, vibrant country with a modern infrastructure forms the backbone of the nation which enables the brilliance of Israeli scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs to develop technologies that benefit the entire world.

One such example is a unique irrigating system that will help preserve scarce water resources.

“We have a water crisis here in Israel and need a way to irrigate more accurately,” says Israeli researcher Eran Raveh.

Eran Raveh and Arieh Nadler from the Volcani Institute of Agriculture have developed a new device that taps into the stem of a tree or plant and when water levels are low, the tree or plant can tweet, text a message, email the farmer or homeowner, or even turn on the irrigation tap to water itself!

“It can work on every stem and doesn’t matter what kind of plant material,” Raveh says. “Olives, palm, banana – at the moment we are working with bid trees, but it’s a matter of calibrating (the device) to move it to younger and smaller plants.”

Orchard farmers everywhere, and the planet, will be saying thank you. “In big orchards, water use is a problem,” says Raveh, who estimates that an orchard with thousands of trees could cut its water use by almost half. It could also spare trees and plants from being over-watered.

In the home, a “smart” plant that can tweet is coming your way soon. You’ll even be able to call your plant and ask it if it needs to be watered!

The future of the honey bee is the future of all life.

“If honey bees disappeared, humankind would only have four years of life left...no more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more people.”

The State of Israel’s promise is to strengthen a nation whose innovations benefit the world. This promise is made possible by continuously building, repairing, and upgrading public infrastructure.

A strong, vibrant country with a modern infrastructure forms the backbone of the nation which enables the brilliance of Israeli scientists, innovators and entrepreneurs to develop technologies that benefit the entire world.

One such example may save our planet from an ecological catastrophe.

The future of honey bees as a species is gravely imperilled. Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) of honey bees is a growing problem that threatens to destroy the entire world’s agriculture. The devastating phenomenon of CCD lists various factors as potential causes. Mites, pesticides, radiation, weather patterns have all been linked to the cause of CCD. Most recently, Israeli researchers identified a new virus strongly correlated with CCD called Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV).

Also developed by a team of Israeli researchers is a vaccination to combat this deadly honey bee virus, called “Remebee.”

This new drug may help to prevent the devastation of Colony Collapse Disorder and thus eliminate the threat of agricultural annihilation.

Israel helps a thirsty planet with solutions to water shortage.

The State of Israel’s promise is to manage your Israel Bonds investments for the good of the nation. This promise is made possible by (and makes possible) the ongoing building, repairing, and upgrading of public infrastructure.

A strong economy with an advanced infrastructure is key to the exciting building of Israel. This creates the ground where private initiatives can flourish, benefiting Israel and the world alike.

One example is the Israeli response to the world’s increasing need for clean, fresh water.

By 2025, fully one- third of the planet's growing population could find itself desperately in need of safe drinking water, the United Nations has warned.

While governments attempt to improve sanitation infrastructure, Israeli scientists have managed to turn Israel into a world leader in innovative water technologies. Israel's capabilities in water technologies include: “desalination, advanced irrigation, water recycling and water management. Israel has some 166 water tech enterprises, including 91 companies offering water efficiency solutions, 50 firms specializing in wastewater reuse and desalination, and another 25 offering water control and command systems. These technologies can be found in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions, whether managing large water projects or helping set up irrigation networks in the developing world.” Israel is home to the three largest desalination plants in the world.

Most recently, in May 2010 Israel opened the world’s largest desalination plant of its kind, marking a hopeful future for a “thirsty” region. The new facility is located along the Mediterranean Coast at Hadera, located between Haifa and Tel Aviv. Currently there are three other plants of its kind in Israel and two more plants are being planned for the near future. When all 5 plants will be operating, Israel predicts these plants will provide two thirds of the nation’s water. The desalinated water from the Mediterranean Sea will have a positive impact on the environmental landscape of the region. The plant will allow the dams to the Kinneret to be opened thereby refilling the drying Jordan River and the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea. The Hadera plant uses an environmentally friendly technology of reverse osmosis which does not have to be heated (as is done in other plants around the world).

These technologies will not only address Israel’s needs, but will be available to help other nations.

The country that made the desert bloom, can help other countries do the same.

The promise of an Israel Bond can be seen in glasses of clean water in Israel; and around the world.