* Welcome to Israel

9/14/16

* FULL NAME:
* State of Israel
* CAPITAL:
* Jerusalem
* POPULATION:
* 8,502,900 milion people
* OFFICIAL LANGUAGES:
* Hebrew and Arabic
* CURRENCY:
* New Shekel
* DIRECTION OF WRITING:
* right to left
* The star is known as the Shield of
David - a symbol of the Jewish
faith

*HISTORY
* On 14th May 1948., David Ben-Gurion, the head of the

Jewish Agency, declared the establishment of a Jewish

state - State of Israel
* Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
* admitted as a member of the United Nations on 11th
May 1949.

*GEOGRAPHY
* Israel is at the eastern end of the

Mediterranean Sea, bounded by

Lebanon to the north, Syria to the
northeast, Jordan and the West
Bank to the east, and Egypt and
the Gaza Strip to the southwest
* Dead Sea, the lowest point on the
surface of the Earth

*CLIMATE
* Temperatures are vary widely, especially during the

winter
* Coastal areas - Tel Aviv and Haifa - typical
Mediterranean climate; with cool, rainy winters and
long, hot summers
* Area of Beersheba and the Northern Negev - semi-arid
climate; with hot summers, cool winters
* The Southern Negev and the Arava areas - have desert
climate; with very hot and dry summers, and mild
winters with few days of rain
* The highest temperature in the continent of Asia54.0C was recorded in 1942. at Tirat Zvi kibbutz in
the northern Jordan river valley

* two official languages - Hebrew and Arabic

* Hebrew is the primary language of the state and is spoken

everyday by the majority of the population, and Arabic is

spoken by the Arab and Hebrew is taught in Arab schools.
* English may be seen in road signs and official documents and
the language is taught from the early grades in elementary
school
* As a country of immigrants, many languages can be heard on
the streets.
* More than one million Russian-speaking immigrants arrived in
Israel from the former Soviet Union states between 1990 and
2004.
* French is spoken by around 700,000 Israelis

*LANGUAGE

* Israel comprises a major part of

the Holy Land, so it is important to

all Abrahamic religionsJudaism,
Christianity, Islam
* 55% are traditional Jews, 20%
consider themselves secular Jews,
16% of the population are Muslims
and About 2% of the population is
Christian

*RELIGION

*DEMOGRAPHICS
* over 8.5 milion people
* 6,363,700 (74.9%) were recorded as

Jews, 1,766,500 (20.7%) as Arabs and

4.4% Christians and people who have no
religion

* religious tourism, is an important industry in

Israel
* In 2013., a record of 3.54 million tourists
visited Israel, the most popular site of
attraction was the Western Wall with 68% of
tourists
* Israel has the highest number of museums per
capita in the world

*TOURISM

*LARGEST CITIES IN

ISRAEL

* JERUSALEM

*849,800

* TEL AVIV

* 426,100

*HAIFA

* 277,100