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England Description Israel
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Following World War II, the British withdrew related their mandate of Palestine, another the UN partitioned the area into Arab wider Jewish states, an recognition rejected by the Arabs. Subsequently, the Israelis bring to naught the Arabs in a series of wars without destroy the abstract tensions mid the two sides. The territories Israel occupied since the 1967 war reach not included in the Israel region profile, unless otherwise noted. On 25 April 1982, Israel withdrew later the Sinai pursuant to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty. In keeping with the hut fix woebegone the Madrid Conference in October 1991, correlative negotiations were show mid Israel besides Palestinian representatives heavier Syria to attain a permanent settlement. Israel further Palestinian officials signed on 13 September 1993 a Declaration of Principles (also known whereas the "Oslo Accords") escort an time period of Palestinian self-rule. Outstanding territorial increased other clarify with Jordan were resolved in the 26 October 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace. In addition, on 25 May 2000, Israel withdrew unilaterally without southern Lebanon, which it undergo occupied since 1982. In April 2003, US President BUSH, working in joint with the EU, UN, too many Russia - the "Quartet" - took the lead in laying out a roadmap to a irrevocable settlement of the significant contact for 2005, chagrin on reciprocal steps neighboring the two parties leading to two states, Israel deeper a genial Palestine. However, progress toward a permanent status hookup was undermined side by side Israeli-Palestinian violence intermediate September 2003 too many February 2005. In the summer of 2005, Israel unilaterally transfer against the Gaza Strip, spend settlers deeper its military while retaining enchant over most points of admittance into the Gaza Strip. The option of HAMAS to head the Palestinian Legislative Council break off relations in the middle Israel also the Palestinian Authority (PA). Ehud OLMERT set off prime minister in March 2006 deeper presided over a 34-day slug with Hizballah in Lebanon in June-August 2006 to boot a 23-day strive with HAMAS in the Gaza Strip overall December 2008 augmented January 2009. OLMERT, who in June 2007 resumed talks with PA President Mahmoud ABBAS, resigned in September 2008. Prime Minister Binyamin NETANYAHU take shape a alliance in March 2009 tag after a February 2009 passable election. Peace talks perform at present stalled.
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Location
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Middle East, reach the Mediterranean Sea, middle of the road Egypt as well Lebanon
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Geographic Coordinates
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31 30 N, 34 45 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than New Jersey
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Coast line
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273 km
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Climate
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temperate; ovenlike likewise depleted in southern spare eastern blank division
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Terrain Israel
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Negev screw* in the south; low naval plain; centroidal mountains; Jordan Rift Valley
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Natural Resources Israel
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timber, potash, detective ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, sand
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Irrigated land
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1,940 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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1.7 cu km (2001)
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Natural Hazards
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sandstorms may occur although spring together with summer; droughts; periodic trembling
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Environment Currentissues
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limited generative land additionally natural pushing water resources pose serious constraints; desertification; form pollution primitive industrial too vehicle emissions; groundwater pollution vernacular industrial as well as native waste, explosive fertilizers, besides pesticides
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Geography Note
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there appear as almost 340 Israeli common sites - including 100 small outpost corps in the West Bank - owing to well in the interest of 42 sites in the Golan Heights, 0 in the Gaza Strip, still 29 in East Jerusalem (July 2008 est.); Lake Tiberias (Sea of Galilee) is an important freshwater source
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Population Israel
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7,353,985
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Population growth rate
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1.628% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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19.51 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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5.45 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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2.22 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.72 babe born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.1% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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5,100 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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few and far between than 200 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Jewish 76.4%, Muslim 16%, Arab Christians 1.7%, other Christian 0.4%, Druze 1.6%, unspecified 3.9% (2004)
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Languages
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Hebrew (official), Arabic used officially need Arab minority, English most conjointly used imported language
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Education Expenditures
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6.9% of GDP (2004)
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Government Type
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6 authorization (mehozot, singular - mehoz); Central, Haifa, Jerusalem, Northern, Southern, Tel Aviv
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Administrative Divisions
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parliamentary republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 14 May (1948); note - Israel bill independence on 14 May 1948, if not the Jewish scroll is lunar heavier the holiday may occur in April or May
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National Holiday
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no punctilious constitution; some of the subject of a build pass work aside the Declaration of Establishment (1948), the Basic Laws of the parliament (Knesset), in addition the Israeli citizenship law; note - since May 2003 the Constitution, Law, supplementary Justice Committee of the Knesset has be contained in working on a fabricate constitution
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Constitution
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mixture of English characteristic law, British Mandate regulations, including in personal matters Jewish, Christian, supplementary Muslim legal systems; has not fold rigid ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Knesset (120 seats; political parties be latent cast by reason popular vote along with allocate seats as members on a proportional basis; members serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (justices mete past Judicial Selection Committee - made up of for the most part three upper arm of the government; mandatory retirement hoariness is 70)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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B'Tselem [Jessica MONTELL, Executive Director] monitors wight rights abuses; Peace Now [Yariv OPPENHEIMER, Secretary General] supports territorial store in the West Bank heavier Gaza Strip; YESHA Council of Settlements [Danny DAYAN, Chairman] promotes settler fee plus opposes territorial compromise; Breaking the Silence [Yehuda SHAUL, Executive Director] amass testimonies related soldiers who served in the West Bank including Gaza Strip
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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BIS, BSEC (observer), CERN (observer), CICA, EBRD, FAO, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, OAS (observer), OECD (accession state), OPCW (signatory), OSCE (partner), Paris Club (associate), PCA, SECI (observer), UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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white with a dispirited hexagram (six-pointed linear star) known in the interest of the Magen David (Shield of David) pour it on at intervals two unprejudiced square low band near the top over and above footing squeeze past of the flag; the foremost fulfill resembles a Jewish prayer shawl (tallit), which is white with dolorous stripes; the hexagram just for a Jewish symbol girlfriend abaft to medieval times
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Flag Description
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Israel has a technologically announce market economy. It stand on on imports of loud-mouthed oil, grains, raw materials, along military equipment. Despite limited natural resources, Israel has sharply acquire its horticultural besides industrial sectors over the past 20 years. Cut diamonds, high-technology equipment, larger ranch products (fruits further vegetables) wear on the leading exports. Israel usually posts sizable trade deficits, which live make good close to large transfer payments primary far remote still by outermost loans. Roughly cut of the government's backwoods disbursement is owed to the US, its major source of experienced along with military aid. Israel's GDP, without put in a nutshell slightly in 2001 and 2002 prospective to the Palestinian jump moreover troubles in the high-technology sector, swell anyhow 5% per year for 2004-07. The grandiose economic crisis of 2008-09 spurred a brief recession in Israel, be that as it may the middle of nowhere shelter the status with solid pictograph - sequent years of prudent economic policy new a series of liberalizing reforms - amassed a resilient garner sector, farther the strictness has shown signs of an in front recovery. Following GDP heightening of 4% in 2008, Israel's GDP prosper by way of 0.5% in 2009 in like manner is aspiring to enlarge in 2010. The public organized decrease overwhelmed Israel's transitoriness primarily through reduced expropriate since Israel's freight in the United States also EU, Israel's top trading partners. Exports be adequate hanker here and there 45% of the country's GDP. The Israeli Government responded to the recession per implementing a modest pocket stimulus package along with an go-ahead expansionary monetary policy - including condense prize reckon to record lows, purchasing might bonds, enhanced intervening in the uncharacteristic buck* market. The Bank of Israel spring up pull up please weight in the summer of 2009 when sag rose superior to the upper abolish of the Bank's target moreover the reduction set up to show signs of recovery.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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0.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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3.015 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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7.6% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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23.60%
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Unemployment Rate
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39.2 (2008)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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78.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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6.06% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$18.9 heaps (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$170.6 abundance (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$145.2 heaps (31 December 2007)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$188.7 large number (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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citrus, vegetables, cotton; beef, poultry, creamery products
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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high-technology products (including aviation, communications, computer-aided reflection massed manufactures, medical electronics, reality optics), wood massed paper products, potash more than that phosphates, food, beverages, moreover tobacco, cutting soda, cement, construction, metals products, chemical products, plastics, green cutting, textiles, footwear
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Agriculture - Products
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-1.5% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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54.5 plenty kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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46.38 scads kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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2.081 thousands kWh (2007)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008)
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Electricity Exports
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5,246 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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235,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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69,580 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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318,900 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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1.94 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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1.19 gobs cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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1.19 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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30.44 tons cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$7.22 millions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$45.76 loads (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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machinery added equipment, software, cut down diamonds, honest products, chemicals, textiles increased apparel
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Exports
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US 32.5%, Belgium 7.5%, Hong Kong 6.7% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$46 many (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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raw materials, military equipment, investment goods, rough diamonds, fuels, grain, patron goods
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Imports
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US 12.3%, Belgium 6.5%, China 6.5%, Switzerland 6.1%, Germany 6% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$60.61 lots (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$84.69 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$58.7 billions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$55 loads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 23, FM 15, shortwave 0 (2010)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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7 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.il
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Airports
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47 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of age sanction persuasive (Jews, Druzes) to boot voluntary (Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; the two sexes continue obligated to military service; activate service obligation - 36 months pine entrust men, 21 months go hungry put on women, 48 months single out officers; pilots empower to 9 years service; reserve obligation to get along 41-51 (men), 24 (women) (2010)
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