The Global Happiness Index rated Israel in 11th place.....this result is the direct outcome of a long line of efforts that we led.
The reasons for Israeli happiness include a decline in unemployment - 5.6%m among the lowest in the Western world, increasing the minimum wage, high growth of Israel relative to Western countries, continued decline in poverty levels, connecting the periphery towns to the center of the country and many reforms that we have led for the prosperity of Israeli people...
I am happy to see that our efforts have borne fruits in the personal feelings of Israeli citizens, who are proud of their country. As I have promised, we will continue in this way of bringing down the cost of living and solving the housing crisis.

  -- PM Benjamin Netanyahu, commenting on publication of the Global Happiness Index and Israel's high placement within

I like how he takes credit for Israeli's happiness (though government reforms that work surely has something to do with it, unless you get stuck waiting in line at Misrad Hapnim offices)..

interesting how Israelis complain so much, and around the world can be seen as rude and often angry, yet are actually so happy.