Welcome to “Innovation Nation.”

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the nation…

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

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.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the nation…

Life-Saving Infrastructure

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.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the world…

Has your banana texted you lately?

“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 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, palms, bananas – at the moment we are working with big 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.

Your Israel Bonds investments help build the economic foundation of Israel.

It all begins with a bond…

A strong and vibrant country with a modern infrastructure forms that 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 the project shown above.

Be a part of the building of Israel by investing in Israel Bonds and joining the Young Builders of Israel. Receive Israel Bonds as Bar/Bat Mitzvah gifts from your classmates, friends, and family and in 5 years see how your money and the State of Israel have grown.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the world…

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.”

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.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the world…

Israel helps a thirsty planet with solutions to water shortage.

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.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment 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.

Building a national grid of Ultra High-Speed internet connectivity to maintain world-class innovation and competitiveness.

Israel is building major internal transportation and communications hubs. In the planning stages is an Ultra-High-Speed internet grid which will foster Israel’s world-class innovation and competitiveness. The plan is to build a 25,000km fibre-optic network that would allow Israel’s entire population to access Ultra-High-Speed internet by 2020. This will increase the speed of data transmission and dramatically bolster Israel’s Research & Development efficiencies. None of this can happen without a reliable, modern infrastructure, which our Israel Bonds investments help finance.

The State of Israel’s promise of a bond is…

to manage your investment for the good of the world

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.

Helping to alleviate hunger in a famine-prone region of Africa

Striga’s pretty pink flower belies its devastating impact on cereal crops. It is a scourge more devastating than insect parasites such as locusts.

In Kenya last year, Striga devoured 70 percent of all corn crops, the agricultural staple. Across the Sahel region of Africa, it claimed up to 80% of crops at a cost of over a billion dollars. Countless lives were lost in the perennial African battle against starvation. This weed is considered to be the greatest obstacle to food production in Africa.

The good news is that, now, an Israeli breakthrough will enable farmers to defeat this cropkilling parasite. Israeli innovators have developed strains of corn that are resistant to the herbicides that kill Striga. If the solution works, Israeli ingenuity will have scored a major victory to alleviate human suffering.