This is a big story about some small screws and the spirit of improvisation that some say has driven Israeli entrepreneurial success. CNN Cable News Network reported that Israel has the most fully-equipped and effective field hospital operating in Port au Prince, Haiti.

The hospital arrived in two El Al planes, shortly after the devastating earthquake, and included 200 medical personnel, rescue experts and Home Front officers. It also included operating rooms, and specialty 'wards', as well as obstetrics (several babies were delivered), intensive care, surgery and orthopedics. The field hospital even had imaging capability, with X-ray machines operating off generators.

Israel's Channel 2 correspondent in Haiti, Ronny Daniel, a veteran military reporter told the following story:

Israeli orthopedic surgeons performed many operations to repair broken bones. Some of these operations required screws to hold severely broken bones together. The orthopedic surgery team quickly ran out of such screws.

What can be done? Wait for a shipment to arrive? The surgery could not wait; infection resulting from severely-broken bones is life-threatening.

A team of Israeli rescue experts was dispatched to find orthopedic screws. They found a carpentry shop, managed to get in, found some wooden screws and brought them back. The screws were sterilized and the orthopedic surgeons were soon back in business.

A big story about some small screws!