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Israel is a country in Western Asia placed on the eastern border of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and holds geographically varied characteristics within its relatively small area. Israel, slightly larger than Massachusetts. The Jordan, the only important river, flows from the north through Lake Hule (Waters of Merom) and Lake Kinneret (also called Sea of Galilee or Sea of Tiberias), finally entering the Dead Sea, 1,349 ft (411 m) below sea level—the world's lowest land elevation. Its maritime plain is extremely fertile.

With Jerusalem being the capital and largest city with a population of 695,500. Israel proclaimed Jerusalem as its capital in 1950, but the U.S., like nearly all other countries, maintains its embassy in Tel Aviv. The monetary unit is Shekel; the languages spoken are Hebrew (official), Arabic, and English. It is also home to Arabs Muslims, Christians, Druze, and Samaritans, as well as other religious and ethnic minority groups. As per the ethnicity Jewish is the largest race in the country with 80.1% of the population  followed by Europe/Americas/Oceania-born 32.1%, Israel-born 20.8%, Africa-born 14.6%, Asia-born 12.6%), non-Jewish 19.9% (mostly Arab) as per the 1996 estimate.

The major religions followed are Judaism, Islam, Christian, and Druze with 77% Judaism, 16% of the population following Islam, 2% of the population following Christian, 2% of the population following Druze as per 2003 estimate. The Agricultural produce includes citrus, vegetables, cotton; beef, poultry, dairy products. The main industries includes high-technology projects (including aviation, communications, computer-aided design and manufactures, medical electronics, fiber optics), wood and paper products, potash and phosphates, food, beverages, and tobacco, caustic soda, cement, construction, metals products, chemical products, plastics, diamond cutting, textiles, footwear. The natural resources of the country are timber, potash, copper ore, natural gas, phosphate rock, magnesium bromide, clays, and sand.