Contribution of Israel and Jewish People to The World 

Although Israel’s prophetic destiny is to “bless all the families of the earth” in Messiah’s Kingdom and be “a light to the nations”—Israel and the Jewish people have already blessed the world with many significant contributions. One can only imagine with their track record of past centuries what it will be like when these incredible children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are used by the LORD to bless all the nations in the Messianic Kingdom.

Remarkably, Jews constitute almost one-fifth of all Nobel laureates. In a world in which Jews number less than one half of one percent of the population—this is an amazing fact. Since 1911, Jews have received Nobel prizes in all categories for World Peace, Medicine, Economics, Physiology, Chemistry and Literature.

In an era of booming populations, shrinking resources, and environmental degradation, Israel leads the world in critical fields such as solar power generation and seawater desalination. As nations struggle to make the best use of their resources, Israel’s cutting-edge technologies promise to improve health and living standards for hundreds of millions across the globe, while making industry more efficient and minimizing the environmental impact of human activities.

An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale, fully functional solar electricity generating plant, in southern California’s Mojave Desert. The huge site has a capacity of 553 megawatts—enough electricity for 400,000 homes—currently the world’s largest and most productive solar array. What does that portend for an energy-guzzling, oil-dependent world?

In computer breakthroughs, the world’s largest chip maker relies on Israeli talent. At the Intel facilities in Haifa and Petach Tikva, the Pentium M chip—for Wi-Fi broadband access—was created. Most of Windows NT and XP operating systems were developed by Microsoft-Israel.

In economics—for which the Nobel has been awarded only since 1969—23 laureates are Jewish, more than 36 percent of the total.

In agricultural engineering, Israel has begun to make the “desert…rejoice and blossom as the rose” (Isaiah 35:1). The dry stretch of earth running from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea is among the world’s hottest places. But it is now the home to one of the world’s most ambitious and successful agricultural technology also shared with other countries—including irrigation methods, greenhouse technology, anaerobic digestion (recycling organic wastes).

In medicine, Israelis developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. It is used to view the small intestine from the inside, to detect cancer and digestive disorders. Other Israeli researchers have developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood—an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure.