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State of Israel

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Short description	Israel is a fascinating country with a unique history. It is also one of the oldest and the youngest countries in the world. For almost three thousand years met a lot of things this country - he was strong and powerful, he was occupied, and passed from hand to hand, and for a long time it was not even on the map. But thanks to today's Israel, utterly delightful various phenomena of nature, monuments and the many cultures which is the cradle of modern civilization attracts. For Christians to emigrate to Israel is often a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, to the places where Christ lived and taught - Nazareth, Bethlehem, Cana of Galilee, Tiberias, and Jerusalem.
Capital	Jerusalem
Political system	Republic
Area	22072 km²
Population	7482000
Time zone	UTC+2: Athens, Helsinki, Istanbul, Cairo, Warszawa, E. Europe
Casual name	Israel (il)
Access to sea and mountains	Israel is located in Western Asia, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Israel is a country-mountainous upland, where you can distinguish four regions: coastal belt, central belt of hills, the Jordan Valley and Negev Desert. A narrow strip of Mediterranean coastline stretches from the border with Lebanon in the north to Gaza in the south. In the northern part of the coast is varied Haifa Bay, located at the foot of Mount Caramel. To the south stretches a belt of lowland plains Sharon. On the east coast extends to the central upland, mountainous region of the country. In the north of this region are mountains and hills of Lower and Upper Galilee. Galilee is the most famous peaks: Meron (1 208 m) and Tabor (575 m). The local valley stretching from west to east, the largest are: Jezreel Valley. To the east of Galilee, the Golan Heights are. To the south stretches from Galilee hills of Samaria with a number of narrow valleys. The height of the hills reach up to 800 m above sea level. Samaria shall pass to the south, in Judea, where the northern tip is the city of Jerusalem. In the south Negev desert occupies about 50% of the country (12 000 km2). To the east of the central massif is a tectonic ditch the Jordan Valley, which runs Israel's largest river - the Jordan (length 322 km). Sources of the Jordan River are located in the north, on the slopes of Israel's highest peak, Mount Hermon (2 814 m above sea level). Then the river flows through the Hula Valley and flows into Lake Tiberias. Heading further south, the Jordan River flows graben and ends its course in the Dead Sea. Water table is at the lowest point on the Earth - 408 m below (and still is worse). To the south of the Dead Sea is located in Arava and Gulf of Aqaba (Gulf in the north of the Red Sea).
Emergency numbers	Police - 100 ambulance - 101 or 911 Fire brigade - 102
Electric plugs	3-pin, 230V, 50 Hz
Phone code	+972