Let's start with education. Here are just a few institutions located in Israel which you may have forgotten about.
Bar-Ilan University
Bar-Ilan University, one of Israel's largest educational institutions, seeks to blend Jewish tradition with modern technologies and scholarship. The school is located in Ramat Gan.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Student information, academic departments, conferences and more at the website of the Negev's leading educational center, located in Beer Sheva.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Check out what is happening at the university, with its campuses on Givat Ram and Mount Scopus. Studies for overseas students available.
Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem Campus
The five-acre Jerusalem Learning Center, situated on King David Street near the center of Jerusalem, overlooks the ancient walled city. Included schools are the Rabbinic School and the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology.
The Open University of Israel
The Open University of Israel is a distance education university designed to offer academic studies to students throughout Israel. Over 400 courses are offered to an enrollment of about 29,000 students.
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
In operation since 1924, the Technion is the oldest university in Israel. The school offers world-class research and studies in science, engineering, medicine, industrial management, architecture and town planning. 11,000 students are enrolled, of which 25% are graduate students.
Tel Aviv University
Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial heartland, Tel Aviv University is the largest university in Israel and the biggest Jewish university in the world. Information about the university, its programs, overseas students and more.
University of Haifa
The University strives to promote higher education for all sectors of Israeli society, to promote original research and to benefit society. Here is information about the faculties and academic and student services of this Haifa-based school.
Enough respect for education to satisfy you?
Israeli Charities
http://info.jpost.com/1999/Supplements/Charity/From a 1999 supplement, this link lists 12 organizations
http://israelandbeyond.com/cgi-bin/pseek/dirs.cgi?lv=2&ct=Charities_,047_TzedakahA link with six more organizations listed.
http://www.just-tzedakah.org/reports/reportsindex.htmlThis link contains the names of hundreds of organizations. I think your confusion with charitable organizations should be cleared up by now.
Helping to heal the world.....
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/29/health/main565594.shtmlhttp://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enDispWho=Articles^l232&enZone=health&enVersion=0&
http://www.arutzsheva.org/article.php3?id=1869http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/med/four.htmlhttp://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/files/030503.htmlhttp://www.personalmd.com/news/n0704065344.shtmlhttp://www.personalmd.com/news/a1999032909.shtmlhttp://biotech.about.com/library/weekly/aa110499.htmhttp://www.nclci.org/News/technology_news.htmhttp://www.nbc10.com/health/2053811/detail.htmlThis should be enough reading for you.
"When do you think the statute of limitations ran out concerning the holocaust and all it entailed?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. When the last Nazi dies, I suppose that's the end of it. Or do you mean to punish the rest of mankind forever into the future ?"
That is both insulting and offensive.
Maybe when a little girl understands why her grandmother has a tattoo on her arm and requires her assistance to calm her fears every time the door bell rings. Maybe when she can understand all that and explain it to her granddaughter when she is asked "tell me about your grandma when you were young grandma". Maybe then and only then can we say, maybe in another 50 years.
Nuclear weapons?
There are many nations, too many with access to nuclear weapons, yet Israel is the one country that both hasn't used them or rattled their sabers and threatened to use them. "Gathered all or a large portion of Jews in one place where they can be exterminated with no trouble at all?" The Arab countries have tried multiple times to do this already, wth the "weapons of the day" and have not succeeded. They haven't succeeded until now and they won't succeed in the future. It is hoped that lesson will be learned in the near future.