Israel (isr)

Israel

Israel ranks 2,404th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zhengzhou, Halifax, West Yorkshire, and Cyprus. Memorable people born in Israel include Itzhak Vissoker, Daphne Koller, and Inon Zur. Memorable people who died in Israel include Chaim Topol, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and Gary Bertini. Israel has been the birth place of many athletes, and businesspeople and the death place of many actors, and engineers. Israel is located in Israel.

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It borders Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east and Egypt to the southwest. Israel occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the southwest, as well as the Syrian Golan Heights in the northeast. Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, the southernmost point reaches the Red Sea, and the east includes part of the Dead Sea. Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic centre. Read more on Wikipedia