Saw this item on the Israeli Export Institute Web site – unfortunately the article quoted on redorbit.com doesn’t exist anymore. Someone didn’t pay their advertising bill?
As a special tribute to the Israeli software industry, while the state of Israeli celebrates its 60th anniversary, the redorbit.com website sums up some of the major achievements of Israeli software companies. Amongst others, the companies list include Israeli Mirabilis, the inventor of ICQ, development of the Intel 8085 and Pentium M processors in IDC (Intel Israel Development center in Haifa), Checkpoint’s pioneering work in firewalls, anti-virus and automated software testing (Mercury).
See the article on Israeli software achievements
Don’t blame me – the link is broken – and I couldn’t find the original article anywhere.