In the past six years, 101 world-class scientists immigrated to Israel to become university nanotechnology faculty members. Some 750 doctoral students and 850 master’s students currently study nanotechnology and 7,500 nano-scientific papers have been published in the last 3 years.
http://www.jpost.com/Enviro-Tech/Nanotechnology-field-in-Israel-attracts-leading-scientists-from-abroad-345280