Israel

Capital: Tel Aviv
Currency: Israeli new shekel
Official languages: Hebrew Language, Arabic Language
Population: 7,707,042 (July 2013 est.)
approximately 325,500 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank (2011);
approximately 18,700 Israeli settlers live in the Golan Heights (2011);
approximately 186,929 Israeli settlers live in East Jerusalem (2010)
 
 
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic in Western Asia, located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area. Israel is the world's only Jewish-majority state, and is defined as a Jewish and democratic state in its Basic Laws.

The population of Israel, defined by the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics to include all citizens or nationals, but not foreign workers, within Israel itself and in the Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, was estimated in June 2011 to be 7,751,000 people, of whom 5,818,200 are Jewish. Arabs form by far the country's second-largest ethnic group, which includes Muslims and Christians. Other minorities are Druze, Circassians and Samaritans. At the end of 2005, 93% of the Arab population of East Jerusalem had permanent residency and 5% had Israeli citizenship. In the Golan Heights, Arabs are entitled to citizenship but most them have rejected it in favor of "loyalty to Syria." According to a 2008 census, 1,579,700 Arabs live in East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

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