Hold your horses and check your facts. CERN membership takes 5 years from becoming a candidate until acceptance. Israel was accepted as a Candidate for becoming a CERN member, same as Romania was in 2010, they are not members. Turkey is already in Talks for becoming a CERN membership candidate, they just started it later than Romania and Israel so they'll become a Candidate later: http://www.todayszaman.com/news-229986-turkey-accepted-as-ca... .