Israel
This page was generated on 20 September 2026 at 12:27 UTC. The bundled facts on it were retrieved between 13 July 2026 and 8 August 2026. Aletheia's source record for emergency numbers records no retrieval date, so it is not covered by that range.
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Country outlines on Aletheia come from Natural Earth's 1:10-million public-domain boundary set, made by volunteer cartographers and supported by NACIS. Where a border is disputed, the line drawn is one cartographic convention among the competing claims — not a settled fact, and not Aletheia taking a side. Disputes we can source are listed rather than hidden inside the outline.
Israel is filled. The 6 other countries reaching this view are drawn in a dimmer tone — dimmed, not hidden. Unpainted ground is where no boundary in this dataset falls: open water, or land none of them claims.
The 10 hatched areas are contested, and Aletheia takes no position on any of them. The hatching marks where the dispute lies — including where it falls inside the outline — and it is the same set the list below names. 2 of them are smaller than this map can draw and are marked with a fixed-size diamond: the diamond is their position, not their size or shape.
Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), 1:10m. Disputed areas: Natural Earth (public domain). Equirectangular projection, standard parallel 31.4°N — distances and areas away from that parallel are stretched. View: 32.7°E–37.4°E, 29.1°N–33.8°N.
Disputed areas involving Israel
10 areas whose status is contested. Aletheia takes no position on any of them. Each is described in the source’s own words.
East Jerusalem · Disputed
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Palestine
Also involves Palestinian Territories
Gaza · Disputed
Also involves Egypt, Palestinian Territories
Golan Heights · Indeterminate
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Syria
Israel · Disputed
Also involves Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories
Mount Scopus · Disputed
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Palestine
No Man's Land (Fort Latrun) · Disputed
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Palestine
Also involves Palestinian Territories
No Man's Land (Jerusalem) · Disputed
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Palestine
Shebaa Farms · Disputed
Admin. By Israel; Claimed by Lebanon
Also involves Lebanon
UNDOF Zone · Overlay
UN Patrolled Zone in Syria
Also involves Syria
West Bank · Disputed
Also involves Jordan, Palestinian Territories
Source: Natural Earth’s disputed-areas layer (public domain). The list is not exhaustive, and inclusion or omission is not a judgment about any claim’s merit. What has happened in these places is not described here — that needs a source Aletheia has not yet been able to read.
News sources
3 sources from Israelin Aletheia’s registry. Coverage here is covered.
- Globes (English)
- Jerusalem Post
- Ynetnews
sources not yet assessed
Official alerts
An official alerting source is connected for Israel: MeteoAlarm (EUMETNET).
This says a source is connected — not whether any warning is in force right now. Open Alerts for that.
National legislature
Wikidata P856 · authoritative source, but our checker could not reach it (many government sites block automated requests)
Local time
One time zone.
The current time needs JavaScript, so it is not shown here rather than shown wrong.
Conditions at the capital
The capital is disputed, so there is no agreed point to report conditions from.
See the disputed claims on this page
Weather from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
The capital is disputed, so there is no agreed point to report conditions from. See the disputed claims
At a glance
- ISO code
- ISRuncited
- Driving side
- rightcited
- Mains voltage
- 230 Vuncited
- Capital
- The capital is disputed. Rather than choose, this page names the claims and cites the resolutions.Cited: United Nations Security Council Resolution 478 · United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194 · United Nations Security Council Resolution 252See the disputed claims
- Official language
- Hebrewuncited
- Plug types
- Type C (Europlug), Type D (BS 546), Type H, Type M (BS 546)cited · letters are the IEC classification
- Official website
- gov.il ↗We could not reach this from our checker. Many government sites refuse automated requests, so this is not a report that the site is down.From the source's "official website" statement, kept here because the site is a government portal. We have not tested whether it loads.uncited
Population and economy
Population
Population of Israel: the UN's 2025 estimate is 10,122,800 people. The page shows that figure carried forward at about 14 more an hour. It is a projection, not a count, and the figure shown changes as time passes.
Not a count. This is the UN's 2025 estimate carried forward at the rate implied by the two most recent published years — arithmetic, not a measurement. Nobody counts a country continuously, and the true figure right now is unknown.
Where this number comes from
- Base figure
- 10,122,800 people
- For the year
- 2025 — a mid-year estimate, so it describes 1 July 2025
- Compared with
- 10,002,200 people in 2024
- Rate applied
- about 14 more an hour (120,680 a year)
- How that rate was found
- The difference between the 2024 and 2025 estimates, divided by the time between them. It is our arithmetic on two published figures — the source does not publish this rate.
- Carried forward
- 0 days beyond the base figure's date
- Source
- UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices, compiled by the World Bank · source updated 2026-07-13
- The source's own definition
- The values shown are midyear estimates.
THIS NUMBER IS NOT A MEASUREMENT, AND ITS MOVEMENT IS NOT NEWS. No country counts its population continuously. A census is periodic, and every figure between censuses — including the estimate this starts from — is a projection. What you are watching is that projection's trend applied to the clock on your phone. It moves because time passes, not because anyone was born or died. Treat the digits beyond the first few as arithmetic rather than knowledge: the trend is real, the precision is not.
- Population
- 10,122,8002025
- GDP
- 610,777,842,8742025
- GDP per capita
- 60,3372025
- Life expectancy at birth
- 83.2 years2024
- Exports
- 27.6%2025
- Imports
- 25.4%2025
Compiled by the World Bank from: World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wpp/, publisher: UN Population Division · source updated 2026-07-13 · each figure is dated because the most recent value was chosen by us, not by the source
World Heritage Sites
9 World Heritage Sitesshow all
- Old City of Jerusalem and its Walls · inscribed 1981
- Masada · inscribed 2001
- Acre · inscribed 2001
- White City · inscribed 2003
- Incense Route – Desert Cities in the Negev · inscribed 2005
- Biblical Tels - Megiddo, Hazor, Beer Sheba · inscribed 2005
- Bahá'í World Centre buildings · inscribed 2008
- Beit Guvrin National Park · inscribed 2014
- Beit She'arim National Park · inscribed 2015
Register from Wikidata (CC0) · in inscription order · links go to UNESCO
Emergency numbers
- 100listed as: Israel Police
- 101listed as: Magen David Adom
- 102listed as: Israel Fire and Rescue Services
Shown in numerical order, which is not an order of priority.
Listed by the source, mostly from ITU-T E.129. We have not dialled these numbers, and where a service is named it is the source's description rather than ours.
Explore this country
Regions
First-level regions as GeoNames lists them, shown alphabetically · each page computes daylight at the region’s own coordinates
Currency
ILS
News coverage here is counted from Aletheia’s bundled source registry plus the sources the Host had admitted as of 2026-09-14. A source admitted since that date has not reached this page yet, so this is a floor rather than a total.