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Israel
Standards
Road Traffic:right side
Electricity:
Voltage:230V
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:H, C,
Note:*
TV Systems:
System:PAL B / PAL G
DVD-Region: 2
Geography
Location: Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon
Area:
total: 20,770 sq km
land: 20,330 sq km
water: 440 sq km
Climate: temperate; hot and dry in southern and eastern desert areas
Terrain: Negev desert in the south; low coastal plain; central mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
Economy
GDP: $200.7 billion (2008 est.)
$193.2 billion (2007)
$183.3 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate: 3.9% (2008 est.)
5.4% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita: $28,200 (2008 est.)
$27,600 (2007 est.)
$26,700 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 4.7% (2008 est.)
Currency: new Israeli shekel (ILS); note - NIS is the currency abbreviation; ILS is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) code for the NIS
Exchange rates: new Israeli shekels (ILS) per US dollar - 3.56 (2008 est.), 4.14 (2007), 4.4565 (2006), 4.4877 (2005), 4.482 (2004)
People
Population: 7,233,701
note: includes about 187,000 Israeli settlers in the West Bank, about 20,000 in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and fewer than 177,000 in East Jerusalem (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 1.671% (2009 est.)
Religions: Jewish 76.4%, Muslim 16%, Arab Christians 1.7%, other Christian 0.4%, Druze 1.6%, unspecified 3.9% (2004)
Languages: Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially for Arab minority, English most commonly used foreign language
Government
Capital:
name: Jerusalem
time difference: UTC+2 (7 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Friday in March; ends the Sunday between the holidays of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur
note: Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the US, like nearly all other countries, maintains its Embassy in Tel Aviv
Independence: 14 May 1948 (from League of Nations mandate under British administration)
Note: Information on Israel was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Israel, please visit one of the links below.
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