Capital city: Tel Aviv

Region: Middle East

Area: 20 770 km²

Population:5 938 093

Main cities: Tel-Aviv, Haïfa, Rishon Le-Zion, Petah Tiqwa, Ramat Gan, Beercheba, Nazareth

Currency: New Israeli shekel

Dial code: 972

Internet code: IS

Information: Middle East country, Israel is bordered on the west by the Mediterranean on the west and on the east by the Syro-African Depression. The country is bordered by Syria and Lebanon on the north, Egypt on the southwest and Jordan on the east, as well as by occupied territories in the Gaza Strip on the southwest and by the West Bank on the East. Israel has many natural regions with varied climate and landscape: the seacoast on the west, which enjoy a Mediterranean climate, Galilee on the North, where the Mount Meron goes as high as 1,208 m, the Jordan valley on the East, which binds the Lake Tiberius to the Dead Sea, the desert of Negev on the south, which stretches over half of the country.