Location: Middle East
Capital: Jerusalem ( 633.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Haifa, Be'er Sheva, Netanya
Population: 6,217,000
Area: 20,700 km2
Coin: 1 sheqel = 100 agorot
Languages: Jewish, Arab
Religions: Jewish, Moslem, Christian
The Independence's Year: 1948
Mountains: Highlands of Galilea, Samaria e Judea
Rivers: Jordan
Lakes: Dead Sea, Tiberiade

In this territory of few more than 20.000 Kmqs seas (the Mediterranean and the Red Sea) and desert (the Negev) are assembled, together with great depressions with salty lake basins (the Dead Sea and the Lake of Tiberiade), archaeological traces nabatee and Romans, holy places of the nativity, of the preaching and of the death of Jesus Christ, the holy city of the 3 greater religions monotheistic, different cultures, so many nationalities reunited in the Jewish religion and finally racial and religious hate and all the horrors that achieve of it.
Beyond this there are places that alone deserves the trip; first among all Jerusalem, with the open space of the mosques (one of the holiest sites of the Islam and one of the most beautiful places of the planet); with the wall of the weeping, with the impressive Jewish crowd of the holy Friday or the other commanded parties; with the Saint Sepulchre and the sacred places of the Christianity; with the Arabic district and with the inimitable landscape that can be enjoyed to the sunset by the Mountain of the Ulivis.

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Middle East Gallery