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Introduction p.1 I. Geography of Israel p.2 II.Population of Israel p.3 III. History of Israel p.4 IV.Government of Israel p.5,6 V. Religions of Israel p.7Bibliography p.8 Introduction In the last(prenominal) fewer decades,atleast since 1948, no other country has been in the newsmore often or has gotten more international attention thanIsrael. First, Israel got attention because it was to be arefuge for the poor unfortunate Jewish mass who survivedthe Holocaust. They would, once and for all, have a Jewish homeland, where the key to citizenship was simply beingJewish. The majority of the world had humanity for theJewish people, at that time. Along with this sympathy theworld had expectations that the Jewish people would bebetter, morally, than the other nations of the world. As aresult, Israel is often put under a figurative microscope andeach and every thing she does is analyzed. For many yearspeople only said the nicest things about Israel, but that haschanged, recently. Many p eople think that angiotensin converting enzyme of thereasons for this change is because of the power the Arabshave as a result of their oil and money. Since 1948 Israel hashad to deal with regular wars waged by its Arab neighbors,with one of the highest taxation systems in the world andwith doubly digit inflation every year. There is a divisionamong its religious and non-religious people, and a divisionamong its citizens of European vs. North African origin.Israel has, in the past, had to deal with non enoughimmigration and most recently too much immigration. WhenIsrael was first established there was much work to be doneand too few people to do it. Now there is risingunemployment in Israel, partly because of the mass of newimmigrants from the Soviet Union and from Ethiopia. Therewas a time when people moved to Israel and never thoughtabout leaving that has changed. You will learn more, in thefollowing pages, about this dynamic and wonderful countryof ours, "Eretz Yisrael&quo t, the Land of Israel, homeland of theJews. Bibliography 1. Feinstein, Steve. Israel. MinneapolisLerner Publication Company, 1988. 2. Taitz, Emily andHenry, Sandra. Israel, A Sacred Land.