There are?<p>I seem to recall seeing Israeli names on news groups every once in a while (off the top of my head - some of the top developers of plt scheme and php are Israeli), at least more often than their proportion of the world's population would suggest.<p>Remember that Israel has approximately 7 million people (~1/20 of Japan, ~1/40 of the US, ~1/170 of India).<p>How many Swiss or Bulgarians do you see in the open source world?