ISRAELIS LIVE 10 YEARS LONGER THAN IN 1970:

Thanks to a more healthful lifestyle, better economic situation, improved education and a more advanced medical system, the Israeli life expectancy has increased by 10.3 years since 1970 – from 71.8 years to 82.1 years in 2015. This has just been made public in "Health at a Glance 2017,” a comparative report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which Israel joined in 2010. It also pays to get a higher education in Israel: Men with bachelor’s degrees lived an average of 7.5 years longer than men with much less formal education, while the gap between better-educated and less-educated women was five years. According to the report, if the rates of smoking and drinking alcohol were 50% lower, life expectancy would have increased by 13 more months. (J.Post)