The+State+of+Israel

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toc =My country facts=

Official country name
The State of Israel

Year that the country joined the UN
1949

People
They are called Israelis The official language is Hebrew but Arabic is used officially for Arab minority and English is used most commonly as the foreign language. The most practiced religion is Judaism but there are other religions that are also practiced in this country like Islam, Christian and Druid religions. Isarel has 7,026,000 inhabitants
 * 1.What are the people from the country called?**
 * 2.What is the official language? What other languages do people speak?**
 * 3.What is the mos-practiced religion?**
 * 4.What's the population of the country?**

Government
Shimon Peres The country is reuled by a parliamentary democracy which is a political system in which the legislature selects the government. This means that the government has two responsabilities, one for the people and one for the parliament. Kadima- centrists bloc party-Ehud Olmert Shinut-gree party-Ron Levintal Likud-conservative party, socialist party-Ehud Barak Israel was formed when the UN approved the separation of Palestine into two parts.One part was for the arabs and other part was for the jews.So in the year 1948 Israel declared its independece and it got its independece from Freat Britain. The next elections are going to be in the year 2014 because the elections are every 7 years and the last ones were in the year 2007 but they can be earlier if they are called.
 * 1.What is the name of the leader of the country?**
 * 2.What type of governent is the country ruled by?**
 * 3.What are the main political parties of the country?**
 * 4.Was your country ever a colony? If so, when did it gain its independence?**
 * 5.When are the next elections?**

Geography
It is located in the Middle East (Asia) Israel is bordered by Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east and Egypt in the southwest The landscape of Israel is very varied because it has some deserts, some forests and mountains and some coasts of the seas. Israel is a temperate zone, it is hot and dry in the south and in the east desert areas. it has a current weather.
 * 1.Where is the country?**
 * 2.What other nations border the country?**
 * 3.What kind of landscape does the country have?**
 * 4.What's the climate of the country?**

Economy
Israel has a technologically advanced market economy. Israel has intensively developed its agricultural and industrial sectors aver the past 20 years 7,6 % (2009) Israel works in high-tecnology products, wood and paper products, potash and phsphates, food, beverage, tobacco, caustic soda, cement, construction, metal products, chemical products, plastics, diamond cutting, textiles, footwear.
 * 1.What is the most common sector of employment in the country?**
 * 2. What is the unemployment rate in your country (by percentage)?**
 * 3.Does your country work on many indstries?**

The most surprising thing I learned about my country was: that the landscape is so varied because not so many countries have forest and mountains at the same time as deserts.

=My Predictions= I think that my country hasn't any laws that forbide the wild animal trafficking, because Israel is a country that has a lot of problems, and although there are very rich people, a lot of the population is very poor, so maybe they traffic with other countries with wild animals. But I also think that the people who do that, have to do it hidding from the other people because there have to be people that think that this is not good and can have veru serious problems.

=My Predicitions about Child Labour= I think that my country is not doing many things to try to solve that problem, because although is israel there're very rich people, there're also very poor people, and very poor families which sometimes need their children to work to receive money to survive. In my opinion, Israel has other different topics in which it focus on, and this one, which is one of the most important, is not well attended, because children under 16 yerars old are working in very har conditions.

=The State of Israel Position Paper (1st draft)=