FACT CHECK · ISRAEL FACTS
Claim: Israel contributed nothing to computing
FALSETHE ANSWER
Intel Haifa designed the 8088 chip of the first IBM PC (1981). Israelis made the first commercial firewall (Check Point, 1993), ICQ (1996), the USB stick (2000).
SOURCE
Intel Israel; Check Point FireWall-1 (1993); Mirabilis ICQ (1996); M-Systems DiskOnKey (2000)
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