Israel
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The capital of Israel is Jerusalem.
The currency of Israel is new shekel.
The currency of Israel is Old Israeli shekel.
The currency of Israel is Palestine pound.
The currency of Israel is Israeli lira.
Israel is located on the continent of Asia.
Israel was founded on 14/5/1948.
An official language of Israel is Hebrew.
An official language of Israel is Arabic.
Israel is an instance of Mediterranean country.
Israel is an instance of country.
Israel is an instance of region.
Israel is an instance of state with limited recognition.
Israel is an instance of sovereign state.
Israel is part of Middle East.
Israel is part of West Asia.
Israel is part of Asia.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the southwest.
Israel's western coast lies on the Mediterranean Sea, its southern tip reaches the Red Sea, and to the east is Earth's lowest point near the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem is the government seat and proclaimed capital, while Tel Aviv is Israel's largest urban area and economic centre.
The Land of Israel, also called Palestine or the Holy Land, was home to the ancient Canaanites and later the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and Hasmonean Judea.
Located near continental crossroads, its demographics shifted under various empires. 19th-century European antisemitism fuelled the Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland, which gained British support with the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
After World War I, Britain occupied the region and established Mandatory Palestine.
British rule and Jewish immigration in the leadup to the Holocaust intensified Arab-Jewish tensions, which escalated into a civil war after the 1947 United Nations (UN) Partition Plan.
Israel declared independence as the British Mandate ended on 14 May 1948, followed by an invasion by Arab states.
The 1949 armistice expanded Israel beyond the UN plan, while no new Arab state was created, leaving Gaza under Egyptian control and the West Bank ruled by Jordan.
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