Israel’s Ben Gurion airport, just outside Tel Aviv, always has the most fascinating of exhibitions. This month, they have posted a montage of about 40 pictures depicting the wonders of Israeli high-tech.

Let me explain. The exhibition always resides in the obligatory walkway connecting passport control to duty free. It is very difficult to miss. The aim is to take some extra or unusual about Israel with you to where ever you travel to in the world.

I guess the picture that made me wake up was the one about bats. Creepy. It is now about five years ago that researchers at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem began to comprehend how bats have their own internal GPS system.

Reading on, what struck me was the amazing range of capabilities that have emerged in recent years from a country that is 50% desert.

• Seedless grapes, and grapes that grow 365 days of the year.
• The first portable disk-on-key flash drive.
• Israel is at the forefront of the race to create nano communication satellites.
• Israel is an accepted leader in creating, and also circumnavigating, the most sophisticated of firewalls.
• Israeli robotics are enabling the rehabilitation of thousands who had lost the ability to walk.

And so the pictures continued. One of the last images featured Professor Sarit Kraus. She is a very observant Jew, who has an outstanding reputation in the field of intelligent computer systems – robots to us mere mortals. And that is the point. Israel looks to ensure that all – whatever your religion, social standing or physical ability – are included in this attempt to go beyond what seems impossible.

And as a postscript: Once I arrived at my destination in the UK, I found a series of amazing tweets, showing how Israel tech has leaped across borders; motor industry, curing melanoma, harvesting drinking water from the air, and much more.