THE FIRST OPENLY TRANSGENDER OFFICER IN THE IDF WAS GIVEN SPECIAL PERMISSION to wear a field uniform at all times since the uniform is unisex. He was also encouraged to inform fellow soldiers his true identity. IDF officers now address soldiers according to their gender identification. 

BOYCOTT/DIVESTMENT/SANCTION ACTIVISTS ARE INTENSIFYING ANTI-ISRAEL TACTICS on campuses. Encourage your favorite university to invest in Israel:
• Donate an Israel bond to a university
• Diversifying securities makes Israel bonds a smart choice for donating to universities by alumni, proud family members and students

EARLY ZIONISTS “DRAINED THE SWAMPS” AND CAUSED THE “DESERT TO BLOOM”; they grew tomatoes, cucumbers, and developed a new state. Modern Israelis are “piercing the mountains,” i.e. boring holes in the Judean Hills, to build a high speed rail link from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. One of Israel’s largest infrastructure projects ever will bring enormous economic and environmental benefits to the region and the State. 

REPRESENTATIVES FROM OVER 40 COUNTRIES ARRIVED IN ISRAEL EARLIER THIS YEAR for Agrisrael 4.0 showcasing Israel’s hi-tech agricultural innovations, including autonomous airborne robots for harvesting and drones using artificial intelligence vision algorithms, orchard mapping and data to identify the exact time for harvesting. Valve specific irrigation instructions based on satellite imagery, hyper local weather forecasts and self-developed crop models were also at the forefront of the conference.

THE COUNTRIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE AMONG THE MOST UNSTABLE AND REPRESSIVE countries in the world. Yet Israel, an open, democratic, tolerant, freedom-granting and rights-guaranteeing society is the target of a constant rebuke and a global boycott, divestment and sanction campaign. Why boycott a nation that... 
• Guarantees the rights, speech, and liberty of all its citizens and visitors
• Is the source of one out of every four of the medicines, treatments and technologies in use today
• Is a first responder to disaster and humanitarian crises anywhere

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS WITH THE STRICTEST FIDUCIARY REQUIREMENTS, including banks and insurance companies, invest in Israel bonds. Over 95 state and municipal public employee pension funds and treasury funds currently hold more than $3.5 billion in Israel bonds.

ISRAEL’S ECONOMIC RESILIENCE IS BUILT ON THREE PILLARS:  
• Israel has been proactive in developing far-reaching policies enabling its economy to remain stable in the face of ongoing global challenge.
• Israel’s leading and innovative technology sector attracts billions of dollars in foreign investment, hosts development centers that create jobs, rents, tax revenues and generate global demand for Israeli products.
• The Israel Bonds organization has achieved $43 billion in worldwide sales since inception in 1951.

ISRAELI-ARAB PH.D. CANDIDATES AND ISRAEL-ARAB WOMEN IN THE LABOR FORCE ARE INCREASING IN LARGE NUMBERS. Ph.D. candidates rose from 335 in 2008 to 759 in 2018 and Bachelors' Degrees rose from 26,000 in 2010 to 47,000 in 2017. Arab citizens comprise 17% of university students in Israel with 70% being women. One decade ago, 22% of Israeli-Arab women worked outside the home; in 2019 the number is 40% (Jerusalem Post and Haaretz).

AN ISRAEL BONDS INVESTMENT DECLARES YOUR APPRECIATION for “brand Israel,” i.e., the ideals and values of the State of Israel – democracy, pluralism, tolerance, safety, and putting human creativity and ingenuity to work to make the world a cleaner, safer, healthier, and better place. Your investment declares you appreciate and identify with a nation that:
• Sends a field hospital to Nepal in response to an earthquake; erects another field hospital near the Syrian border to treat refugees
• Builds a complex of water desalination facilities to reduce the burden on natural fresh water systems and produce excess capacity to transfer to neighboring countries
• Constantly invents new life-saving, time-saving, food-producing products that make the world a cleaner, safer, healthier, and better place
• Does the right thing despite the protests of world opinion

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