Israel Technion’s contributions to the world’s scientific progress is amazing. Graduates have invented memory sticks, instant messaging, PDF compression, Better Place electric cars, quasi-crystals, “NaNose” cancer detector, ultrasound cardiac imaging, and ultrasound tumour destruction.
http://pard.technion.ac.il/2012/03/02/hot-technion-facts-on-startups-innovation-israel-science-technology-2/