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Israel
Country in the Southern Levant
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See every claimIsrael, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, with coasts on the Mediterranean and Red seas 1. It declared independence on 14 May 1948, shortly before the end of the British Mandate, in a conflict that also saw over 700,000 Palestinians flee or be expelled 115. Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a 120-member Knesset 119. Its occupation of territories captured in 1967, the war in Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks of 7 October 2023, and its conflicts with Iran and Iran-backed groups have polarised international opinion and are subjects of sustained dispute 124.
Etymology
#Ancient and pre-modern history
#According to Wikipedia, the Land of Israel, also called Palestine or the Holy Land, was home to the ancient Canaanites and later to the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and to Hasmonean Judea 1. The same source gives about 900 BCE as the date by which the Kingdom of Israel existed and about 850 BCE for the Kingdom of Judah, and dates the destruction of Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple by Babylon to 587/6 BCE 1.
The region's demographics shifted under various empires, and by the 19th century it was an Ottoman region with an overwhelming Arab majority 1.
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs describes the Land of Israel as the birthplace of the Jewish people and states that the Jewish people never severed its bond with the land during the many years of dispersion 11.
Zionism, the British Mandate and 1948
#The Zionist movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine arose in the 19th century, fuelled by Jewish nationalism and European antisemitism 1. The Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917 expressed British government support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, and also stated that nothing should be done to prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities 17. The League of Nations granted Britain the Mandate for Palestine in 1922 117.
According to Wikipedia, British rule and Jewish immigration in the lead-up to the Holocaust intensified Arab–Jewish tensions, with Arab opposition to Zionism driven largely by concerns about displacement and dispossession 1. The same source reports that 5,032 Arabs were killed during the suppression of the 1936–39 Arab revolt 1. The 1946 Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel killed 91 people 1.
On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181, recommending partition into Jewish and Arab states with Jerusalem under an international regime 1. The Jewish leadership accepted the plan and the Arab leadership rejected it 117.
The sources give different accounts of the rejection. Wikipedia states that the Palestinian Arab leadership argued the plan violated the principle of self-determination and constituted Western colonial interference 1. Israel's government states that Arab leaders rejected the proposal and intensified attacks against their Jewish neighbours 17.
Israel declared independence on 14 May 1948, and the proclamation was signed in Tel Aviv 115. According to Wikipedia, the conflict escalated with the intervention of Arab states 1. The 1949 armistice left Israel controlling more territory than the partition plan had allocated to it; Gaza came under Egyptian control and the West Bank was ruled by Jordan 1.
Over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled, an event referred to as the Nakba, while about 156,000 Arabs remained and became Israeli citizens 1.
1949 to 2022
#Israel was admitted to the UN on 11 May 1949 1. In the 1967 Six-Day War it captured the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights 1.
Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979, with the Sinai returned in 1982, and with Jordan in 1994 1. The 1993 Oslo Accords introduced limited Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza 1. According to Britannica, the Oslo Accords left open some of the most pressing issues, including the fate of Jerusalem and of Israeli settlements in the West Bank 3.
Wikipedia reports that between 2000 and 2008, 1,063 Israelis, 5,517 Palestinians and 64 foreign citizens were killed in the conflict 1. The 2020 Abraham Accords normalised ties between Israel and more Arab states 1.
War since October 2023
#On 7 October 2023 militants led by Hamas attacked Israel; Wikipedia gives estimates of about 1,300 Israelis killed and over 200 hostages taken 1. The Congressional Research Service (CRS) says the attacks, led by the Iran-backed group Hamas, triggered massive Israeli counter-assaults into Gaza and a two-year war 2.
Whether Israel's conduct in Gaza constitutes genocide is disputed. Wikipedia attributes the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide to a UN Special Committee and others, and its article states this in its own voice; it notes that Israel and its allies, including the United States, deny the characterisation 1.
According to CRS, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) found in January 2024 that it has jurisdiction over South Africa's allegations that Israel may have committed acts of genocide in Gaza, and has ordered Israel to take or refrain from certain actions to prevent conditions that could harm Gaza's population 2. CRS says other countries have filed declarations with the ICJ: those that may be favourable to Israel tend to frame Israeli actions as responsive to threats, while those that may be critical tend to frame them as possibly disproportionate or intentionally punitive 2.
A Harvard Kennedy School Carr-Ryan commentary states that, in Gaza since 7 October 2023, Israel has been credibly accused by international institutions and human rights organisations of conduct that may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and has been the subject of genocide proceedings before the ICJ 4.
According to CRS, Israel's leaders have since sought to degrade threats near Israel's borders, create buffer zones in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, and conduct direct military operations against Iran in close coordination with the United States 2. CRS says Israel has scored major operational successes against Iran and its 'axis of resistance' while suffering some casualties and damage and facing strain on its fighting capacity, material resources and popular morale 2.
Wikipedia reports that Israel and Iran first exchanged direct fire in 2024 and that Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024 1. Wikipedia also reports that Israeli and US strikes assassinated Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February 2026; among the sources used here, this rests on that single account 1.
Occupied territories and international law
#After the 1967 war Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights; according to Wikipedia, the UN Security Council declared both annexations null and void 1. Wikipedia states that almost 400,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem; the excerpt does not date that figure 1.
Wikipedia reports that the ICJ's 2024 advisory opinion found the occupation contrary to international law, and quotes UN Security Council Resolution 2334 as describing settlement activity as a flagrant violation of international law 1. The Harvard Kennedy School commentary states that the overwhelming international legal consensus regards the settlement enterprise as unlawful under the law of occupation 4.
CRS reports that the current Israeli government has accelerated settlement planning and construction, and that in September 2025 President Trump declared he would not allow Israel to unilaterally annex the West Bank 2.
According to Wikipedia, the Israeli rights groups B'Tselem and Yesh Din, together with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, have affirmed or made accusations that Israel practises apartheid 1. Wikipedia also reports that a 2021 Washington Post survey of Middle East scholars found 65% describing the situation in terms of a one-state reality akin to apartheid 1. The sources consulted here do not set out the Israeli government's response to the apartheid accusation.
Government and politics
#Israel is a parliamentary democracy 19. Its Knesset has 120 members, elected by proportional representation with a 3.25% electoral threshold 1.
Wikipedia states that a July 2018 Basic Law made Hebrew the official language and gave Arabic a special status 1. The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) publication Israel in Figures lists the official languages as Hebrew and Arabic 14, as does Germany's statistical office 13.
CRS reports that elections are scheduled to take place by October 2026 2; Deutsche Welle gives the date as 27 October 9. Al Jazeera reports that Gadi Eisenkot's Yashar party leads Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud in the polls by the slenderest of margins, and that Eisenkot and Naftali Bennett, leader of the Beyachad alliance, have seized on alleged warnings before 7 October 2023, with Bennett saying Netanyahu could not continue in office if the allegations were proven true 7.
Deutsche Welle reports that the Central Elections Committee moved to bar all Arab parties from running, prompting a debate about the relationship between security, national identity and democratic representation; it says Arab citizens make up about a fifth of the population 9.
The Guardian reports that Israel's president, Isaac Herzog, condemned attacks by Israeli settlers in Jalud in the West Bank as a 'moral stain' 6. CRS also describes a rising tide of settler violence in the West Bank 2.
Geography, population and economy
#The area under Israeli law, including East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, is 22,072 km² 112. Germany's statistical office gives Israel's land area as 21,640 km², citing World Bank data 13. Earth's lowest point lies near the Dead Sea, to Israel's east 1.
The 2024 edition of the CBS booklet Israel in Figures reports a population of approximately 9,915,000, of which 77.0% are Jews and others, 20.8% Arabs and 2.2% foreigners, with annual growth of 1.6% and a total fertility rate of 2.85 12. It reports 3.46 million immigrants since the establishment of the state 12.
The same booklet gives life expectancy as 81.0 years for men and 85.5 for women, or 81.7 and 85.7 excluding persons killed in the Iron Swords war, and an unemployment rate of 3.4% 12.
IMF figures cited by Germany's statistical office put Israel's 2025 nominal GDP at US$611 billion and GDP per capita at US$60,335 13. Wikipedia states that Israel allocates a larger share of its economy to research and development than any other state, and that it is believed to possess nuclear weapons 1.
Scripture
Passages quoted from the King James Version. The text is fetched, never written by a model.
Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
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Israel is bordered by Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt.
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The name Israel was proposed by David Ben-Gurion and adopted by a 6–3 vote.
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The Merneptah Stele is the earliest known artefact mentioning Israel as a collective.
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The Kingdom of Israel existed by about 900 BCE and the Kingdom of Judah by about 850 BCE.
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Babylon destroyed Jerusalem and its Temple in 587/6 BCE.
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The Balfour Declaration of 1917 supported a Jewish national home in Palestine while stating the rights of non-Jewish communities should not be prejudiced.
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Source [17] confirms support for a Jewish national home and protection of existing non-Jewish communities' civil and religious rights. / Source 17 quotes the 1917 declaration's national-home support and non-prejudice clause.
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5,032 Arabs were killed in the suppression of the 1936–39 Arab revolt.
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The 1946 King David Hotel bombing by Irgun killed 91 people.
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UN General Assembly Resolution 181 of 29 November 1947 recommended partition with Jerusalem under an international regime.
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Source [1] supplies the resolution number, adoption date, partition recommendation, and international status proposed for Jerusalem. / Resolution 181 of 29 November 1947 recommended partition and an international Jerusalem.
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The Jewish leadership accepted the partition plan and the Arab leadership rejected it.
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Over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled in 1948.
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About 156,000 Arabs remained and became citizens of Israel.
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Israel was admitted to the UN on 11 May 1949.
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Israel captured the West Bank, Gaza, Sinai and the Golan Heights in 1967.
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Source [1] lists all four territories as captured during the 1967 Six-Day War. / Source 1 says Israel captured all four territories in the 1967 war.
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Israel signed peace treaties with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994.
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The Oslo process left Jerusalem and settlements unresolved.
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Source [3] identifies Jerusalem and West Bank settlements among issues left open by the Oslo Accords. / Source 3 says the Oslo Accords left Jerusalem and West Bank settlements unresolved.
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Between 2000 and 2008, 1,063 Israelis, 5,517 Palestinians and 64 foreigners were killed.
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About 1,300 Israelis were killed and over 200 hostages taken on 7 October 2023.
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CRS describes the Gaza conflict after 7 October 2023 as a two-year war.
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Source [2] explicitly describes the conflict triggered by October 7 as a two-year war. / The CRS excerpt calls the post-October 2023 Gaza conflict a two-year war.
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Wikipedia states a UN Special Committee and others concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while Israel and the US deny it.
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Source [1] reports these genocide conclusions and explicitly states that Israel and allies, including the United States, deny that characterization. / Wikipedia attributes that conclusion to a UN committee and others, and notes US and Israeli denials.
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The ICJ found jurisdiction in South Africa's genocide case in January 2024 and ordered provisional measures.
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Source [2] reports jurisdiction and preventive orders in January 2024. Technically, the provisional-measures stage established prima facie jurisdiction. / CRS says the ICJ found jurisdiction in January 2024 and ordered protective measures.
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Israel and Iran first directly exchanged fire in 2024.
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Source [1] identifies the 2024 conflict as the first direct exchange of fire between Israel and Iran. / Source 1 calls the April 2024 strikes their first direct exchange of fire.
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Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah in September 2024.
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Wikipedia reports Israeli and US strikes killed Ali Khamenei in February 2026.
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Source [1] explicitly reports that Israeli and US strikes assassinated Ali Khamenei in February 2026. / Wikipedia reports February 2026 Israeli-US strikes assassinated Khamenei.
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The UN Security Council declared Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights null and void.
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Almost 400,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem.
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Source [1] gives almost 400,000 settlers for the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem, although the excerpt does not date that figure. / Source 1 says almost 400,000 settlers live in the West Bank excluding East Jerusalem.
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The ICJ's 2024 advisory opinion said the occupation violates international law.
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Source [1] states that the ICJ's 2024 advisory opinion found the occupation contrary to international law. / Source 1 says the ICJ's 2024 advisory opinion found the occupation unlawful.
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UN Security Council Resolution 2334 called settlement activity a flagrant violation of international law.
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Source [1] quotes Resolution 2334 describing settlement activity as a flagrant violation of international law. / Source 1 quotes Resolution 2334 calling settlement activity a flagrant violation.
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In September 2025 President Trump said he would not allow Israel to unilaterally annex the West Bank.
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Source [2] explicitly attributes this declaration to Trump in September 2025. / CRS says Trump made that declaration in September 2025.
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B'Tselem, Yesh Din, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have accused Israel of apartheid.
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Source [1] names all four organizations as affirming or making apartheid accusations. / Source 1 says all four organizations affirmed or made apartheid accusations.
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A 2021 Washington Post survey found 65% of Middle East scholars describing a one-state reality akin to apartheid.
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Source [1] reports that the survey's proportion increased from 59% to 65% in 2021. / Source 1 reports the 2021 survey result rose to 65%.
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The Knesset has 120 members elected by proportional representation with a 3.25% threshold.
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Source [1] confirms 120 members, proportional representation, and a 3.25% electoral threshold. / Source 1 states the Knesset has 120 proportionally elected members and a 3.25% threshold.
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The 2018 Nation-State Basic Law made Hebrew the official language and gave Arabic a special status.
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Source [1] states that the July 2018 Basic Law designated Hebrew official and assigned Arabic special status. / Source 1 says the 2018 law made Hebrew official and gave Arabic special status.
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The Central Elections Committee moved to bar all Arab parties from the 2026 election.
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Source [9] explicitly reports a Central Elections Committee move to bar all Arab parties, with the bans' eventual status unresolved. / DW reports the Central Elections Committee moved to bar all Arab parties.
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Al Jazeera reported Eisenkot's Yashar party narrowly leading Likud in polls.
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Source [7] reports Yashar leading Likud by the slenderest of margins. / Al Jazeera says Yashar led Likud by the slenderest polling margin.
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President Herzog called settler attacks in Jalud a moral stain.
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Source [6] quotes Herzog describing the Jalud attacks as a moral stain. / The Guardian reports Herzog called the Jalud attacks a moral stain.
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Israel's population is about 9.915 million, 77.0% Jews and others and 20.8% Arabs.
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About 3.46 million immigrants have arrived since Israel's establishment.
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Israel's 2025 nominal GDP is estimated at US$611 billion.
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Israel spends a larger share of its economy on R&D than any other state.
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Israel is believed to possess nuclear weapons.
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