Editor's note: Israel is like a diamond that seems to have more facets the more you stare at it. It's tiny and complex. It packs a global technological and scientific punch and leads the world in water recycling. It has an altruistic spirit; Israel started Good Deeds Day and is the world leader in medical clowning. And its national postal service has a division to handle all the letters to God that arrive to Jerusalem. They open them and put them in cracks of the Western wall, then remove them every 6 months and bury them. Welcome to our Israel collection!