The State of Israel was 64 years old this week which makes it about middle aged as nations go.

Happy Birthday Israel

To add a little more historic perspective:

• Israel was founded before the fax machine and outlived it.
• Israel was founded before the cassette tape and has outlived it.
• The same for the floppy disc, the princess phone and the pager.
• Looking at some companies Israel has out lived WT Grant, Polaroid, Wang and Lehman Brothers
• It looks like Israel will outlive Kodak and Sears.  Although both of them were founded when Zionism was only a dream.
• My favorite: Israel was founded before the Boeing 707 flew and it still exists.  Boeing 707’s are not flying much anymore.
• Israel outlasted the United Arab Republic, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, the USSR and Tibet.
• Since Israel was admitted to the UN somewhere near a hundred other countries have been admitted.

Did I miss any?