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, Inon Zur, and Daphne Koller. Memorable people who died in Israel include Chaim Topol, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and Reuven Feuerstein. 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 West Asia. Situated in the Southern Levant of the Middle East, it shares borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the north-east, Jordan to the east, Egypt to the south-west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the west. It occupies the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in the east and the Gaza Strip in the south-west. Israel also has a small coastline on the Red Sea at its southernmost point, and part of the Dead Sea lies along its eastern border. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, while Tel Aviv is the country's largest urban area and economic center. Read more on Wikipedia