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Capital:Jerusalem, IL

Location:Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Egypt and Lebanon

Currency:new Israeli shekels (ILS)

Area:21,937 sq km

Population:8,787,045 (includes populations of the Golan Heights or Golan Sub-District and also East Jerusalem, which was annexed by Israel after 1967) (July 2021 est.)

Languages:Hebrew (official), Arabic (special status under Israeli law), English (most commonly used foreign language)

Religion:Jewish 74.1%, Muslim 17.9%, Christian 1.9%, Druze 1.6%, other 4.5% (2019 est.)

TimeZone:UTC+2

Tel Code:+972