Israel’s Tech Ascendance Sparks Interest in Washington

President Isaac Herzog urges the U.S. to embrace Israel’s technological advancements and diversity.

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“When the State of Israel was established in 1948, the land which the Almighty promised to Abraham, to which Moses led the Israelites, the land of the Bible, of milk and honey, evolved into an exquisite land of democracy,” Israel’s President Isaac Herzog told assembled Congressional lawmakers in Washington, D.C. last month.

Calling Israel, “a land which welcomed the ingathering of exiles from one hundred different countries,” President Herzog called Israel’s diverse and multicultural heritage, “the sweetness with which our country has been blessed.”

“Against all odds, the Jewish people returned home and built a national home, which became a beautiful Israeli democracy, a mosaic of Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Circassians, secular, traditional and orthodox, of all denominations, and all possible views and lifestyles.”

Israel is, “a state founded on complete equality of social and political rights for all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or gender — as stipulated explicitly in Israel’s Declaration of Independence,” said Herzog. “A country which is ever evolving. A diverse amalgam of accents, beliefs, backgrounds, and customs. Truly, a modern-day miracle.”