You Used Israeli Technology at Least 10 Times Today. You Had No Idea. | Grand Structures

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]This morning before you ate breakfast, you had already used Israeli technology at least three times. By the time you got to work, it was probably seven. By the time you go to sleep tonight, the number will be somewhere between [music] 10 and 20. The processor inside the computer you're watching this on. The navigation app that got you to where you were going. The messaging app on your phone. The USB drive on your desk. The security software protecting your bank account. The cherry tomatoes in your salad. One country invisible inside everything.

[00:00:40]Welcome back to Grand Structures. Today we are going through your entire day hour by hour and showing you exactly how many times Israel shows up. The answer is going to surprise you. Let's start with the device you are using right now.

[00:00:58]Whether it is a laptop, a desktop or a phone, if it uses an Intel processor, its entire architectural lineage traces back to a laboratory in Hifur, Israel.

[00:01:10]The Intel 8088 processor designed and developed at Intel's Hifer Laboratory in Israel powered the first IBM PC. That single chip is credited with kickstarting the PC revolution. The ILE E wrote that almost all the world's PCs are built around CPUs that can claim the 8088 as their ancestor. Intel credited the 8088 with launching the company into the Fortune 500. Intel Israel operations did not stop there. The Centrino processor, the chip that made wireless laptops possible, was designed in Israel. The Sandy Bridge processor, which at one point accounted for 40% of Intel's entire revenue, was designed in Israel. Today, Intel Israel employs 7,800 people and serves as Intel's global headquarters for wireless technology R&D. You are watching this video on a device whose fundamental architecture was designed in Israel. Before you even pressed play, Israel was already involved.

[00:02:22]The mobile phone you carry in your pocket, not the apps on it, the actual device, the technology that made it small enough to hold in one hand.

[00:02:33]Motorola is an American company founded in Chicago in 1928. But the first viable handheld cell phone, the technology that transformed the mobile phone from a brick the size of a shoe into something you could actually carry, was developed primarily in Motorola's Israeli R&D department. The miniaturization, the antenna design, the battery management systems, the engineers who figured out how to make a phone that fit in a pocket were to a significant degree working in Israel. Every phone call you have made in your life on a mobile device [music] was enabled in part by Israeli engineering >> this morning. If you used GPS navigation to get anywhere, there is a strong chance you used ways. And even if you used Google Maps, you were using technology heavily influenced by ways because Google bought ways in 2013 and integrated its realtime logic into Google maps. Ways was built by Israeli engineers who had a simple insight.

[00:03:40]Navigation apps of the time used static maps. Roads change, traffic happens, construction appears. They built a system where every driver using the app is simultaneously reporting realtime conditions to every other driver by integrating satellite signals with mobile software. Israeli engineers changed how humans perceive geography.

[00:04:05]Google acquired ways for over1 billion dollars [music] and its logic now powers the navigation of hundreds of millions of people daily. Look at the USB drive on your desk. Or think about the last time you used one. That device, the most ordinary piece of technology imaginable, was invented in Israel. The first ever patent for what we know today as the USB flash drive was an Israeli one. Israeli engineer Dove Moran of M Systems [music] filed the patent in 1999.

[00:04:43]Before the USB flash drive transferring files between computers required floppy discs, CDs or email, the flash drive made it instant, portable and universal.

[00:04:58]Billions have been manufactured. Every one of them owes its existence to a patent filed in Israel. Right now, as you watch this video, software is protecting your bank account, your email, your private data from thousands of automated attacks happening every second. That software almost certainly uses technology pioneered in Israel.

[00:05:25]Checkpoint Software Technologies, founded in Tel Aviv in 1993 by Gil Schwed, invented the modern network firewall. Before Checkpoint, connecting a network to the internet, was essentially leaving your front door open. Schwed's stateful inspection technology, the fundamental concept behind every firewall in use today, was patented in Israel and became the global standard for network security.

[00:05:58]Checkpoint now protects the networks of more than 100,000 organizations worldwide, including most of the world's major banks, governments, [music] and corporations. The security between your money and the people trying to steal it was designed in Tel Aviv. The messaging apps you use every day. Viber, one of the world's most used messaging platforms, was built by Israeli entrepreneurs. Its core technology was developed in Israel before being acquired by Japan's Rakuten for $900 million. And WhatsApp used by over 2 billion people worldwide was built with significant contributions from Israeli engineers. And its end toend encryption protocol was developed with heavy involvement from Israeli cryptography research. The private conversation you have with your family tonight is private because of Israeli cryptography. [music] And then there is the food, the cherry tomato. Now, one of the most consumed [music] vegetables on Earth was developed into a commercial crop by Israeli agricultural scientists who figured out how to breed them for sweetness, shelf life, and the ability to grow in desert conditions. While wild cherry tomatoes have been known since the 16th century, they were originally considered a garden novelty rather than a commercial crop. Israeli agricultural scientists transformed them into the premium product now found on every supermarket shelf in Europe, Asia, and [music] America. In winter, when European farms are frozen and American fields are dormant, the cherry tomatoes on your salad came from the Negev Desert, the most hostile farming environment on Earth, producing the most popular salad ingredient in the world.

[00:08:01]Let's go back to your morning. You woke up [music] and checked your phone. Intel processor, Israeli architecture.

[00:08:11]You got directions to work ways Israeli.

[00:08:16]You plugged in your USB drive. Israeli patent. Your network firewall blocked 47 automated attacks while you read your emails. Israeli technology.

[00:08:30]You messaged your family on WhatsApp.

[00:08:33]Israeli cryptography keeping it private.

[00:08:36]You ate cherry tomatoes at lunch grown in the Israeli desert. You watched this video on a device whose processor family was designed in Hifur, a country of 9 million people, 0.1% of humanity inside [music] the technology of almost every person on Earth every single day without most of them knowing. the most invisible country in the world and simultaneously the most present. Israel does not put its name on what it builds.

[00:09:15]It does not stamp its flag on the processor in your laptop or the navigation in your phone. It just builds [music] and keeps building. And the world keeps using what it built without knowing where [music] it came from. You used Israeli technology at least 10 times today. Now you [music] know.

[00:09:39]>> Here is what I want you to do right now.

[00:09:43]>> Count how many Israeli technologies from this video you used today and drop the number in the comments. I want to see what the average is across this community. And if someone in your life thinks they have nothing to do with Israel, share this video with them.

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