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About 57% of Israel's population lives in the coastal plain, much of them in the Tel Aviv (Gush Dan) and Haifa metropolitan areas. [1] [2] [3] It is the most predominantly Jewish geographical region of Israel and accordingly the most predominantly Jewish region in the world, as Jews make up over 96% of the population in this region compared to 75% in the Negev, 70% in the Israeli portion of ...
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Geography of Israel Continent Asia Region Levant Coordinates 31°N 35°E / 31°N 35°E / 31; 35 Area Ranked 150th • Total 20,770 km 2 (8,020 sq mi) • Land 97.88% • Water 2.12% Coastline 273 km (170 mi) Borders Egypt: 208 km Jordan: 307 km Lebanon: 81 km Syria: 83 km West Bank: 330 ...
Sharon plain in Israeli Coastal Plain region. The Sharon plain (Hebrew: הַשָּׁרוֹן, romanized: HaSharon; Arabic: سهل الشارون, romanized: Sahl al-Shārūn) is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain. The plain lies between the Mediterranean Sea to the west and the Samarian Hills, 15 km (9.3 mi
The Western Galilee is a modern Israeli term, which in its minimal definition refers to the coastal plain just west of the Upper Galilee, also known as Plain of Asher or Plain of the Galilee, which stretches from north of Acre to Rosh HaNikra on the Israel-Lebanon border, and in the common broad definition adds the western part of Upper Galilee ...
Sharon plain within the Israeli coastal plain. The Sharon Escarpment [1] or Sharon Cliff [2] is the escarpment in Israel that connects the level of the coastal plain with the level of the Mediterranean Sea beach and the continental shelf and stretches along the Sharon coastal ridge approximately between Giv'at Olga and Tel Aviv, i.e., along the Sharon plain.
Israel has combined its assault on the southern Gaza Strip with an online grid map dividing the enclave into hundreds of zones, which it says will direct residents away from its fight against Hamas.
The Shephelah (Biblical Hebrew: הַשְּפֵלָה, romanized: hašŠəp̄ēlā, lit. 'the Lowlands') or Shfela (Modern Hebrew: הַשְּׁפֵלָה, romanized: haŠfelá), or the Judaean Foothills [1] (Modern Hebrew: שְׁפֵלַת יְהוּדָה, romanized: Šfelát Yəhūdá), is a transitional region of soft-sloping rolling hills in south-central Israel stretching over 10–15 km ...
The wooden ship sank about 90 kilometers (55 miles) off Israel's Mediterranean coast and was discovered at a depth of 1,800 meters (1.1 miles) by Energean, a natural gas company which operates a ...