Israel (isr)

Israel

Israel ranks 1,548th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Galați, Reno, Nevada, and Mount Kisco, New York. Memorable people born in Israel include Judas Maccabeus, Shlomo Artzi, and Itzhak Vissoker. Memorable people who died in Israel include Itzhak Stern, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, and Nahum Stelmach. Israel has been the birth place of many businesspeople and religious figures and the death place of many religious figures and engineers. Israel is located in Israel.

Israel, officially known as the State of Israel, is a country in Western Asia, located on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea. It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest. Israel's economic and technological center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although international recognition of the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem is limited. Read more on Wikipedia