21 Must-Know Facts about Israel
There are many dozens of “Must know facts about Israel” out there, and most of them of course show you “facts” of how Israel “drinks blood” of 1 billion plus arabs.
I would move fact # 22 to first place.
22. Israel has been hated, rightfully or wrongfully for a long long time and it’s not about to change any time soon. Call it a family problem, if you will.
In any case this list has pretty interesting facts that would not hurt to know.
1. Israel is just 20,700 square kilometers. This is about two times the size of Hawaii or Massachusetts or the size of New Jersey, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Connecticut combined. It’s also comparable in size to Slovenia or Ecuador.
2. Though twice the land mass of Massachusetts, Israel has about the same number of people - 7,000,000ish
3. About two in three Israeli Jews were born in Israel. Three/fourths of the country are Jews. One in five immigrated there from Europe or the Americas. The rest came from other parts of Asia and Africa.
4. One in six Israelis are Muslim.