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Israel
I did my report on Israel. Israel is a amazing country. It has been
through, and is still going through, a lot.
Israel is located on the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon, Syria,
Jordan, and Egypt.
The land is 45% arid zones. Here it is very hot. 25% is plains, and
valleys. 16% of the land is mountains, 9% is Rift Valley, and 5% is the
Coastal Strip.
The total population (1994) is 5,472,000. 81.2% of these people are
Jewish,14.3% are Muslims, and 2.8% are Christians.
The capital of Israel is Jerusalem. It is a very holy city. There are
three major religions that live there, Judisam, Islam, and Christianity.
There is a lot of conflict between the three religions.
This has been going on for many years, and still is. Mostly every
week, you hear of shootings, bombings, and terrorism in Israel.
On September 25, Netanyahu (who is the president of Israel) had
another opening to a very old tunnel made, so it would be easier for
tourists to enter, and exit the tunnel. This upset some Palestinians. They
started throwing rocks at Israeli police. The violence grew, and gunfire
erupted on both sides. -Junior Scholastic
November 1, 1996
On November 10, Israeli soldiers shot, and killed a Palestine
protester, and wounded 11 others. The violence was about the expansion of
a Jewish settlement called Qiryat Sefer.
There were about 200 Palestinians rioting against the expansion. The
soldiers tried to stop the protesters without violence. First they told
the mob to go home, then they sprayed the crowd with tear gas, they fired
guns in the air, to scare them, then they shot rubber shells at them. Still
they wouldn1t move, so they opened fire. -The New York Times November 11,
1996
This is just minor compared to all the other stuff that has been going
on over there. There have been bombings where many innocent people have
been killed, because of what they think about god, and politics.
Tourism is a big business in Israel. In 1994, about 2,000,000 people
visited Israel. They are attracted by the many religious sites there.
There are 7 universities in Israel, with 96,600 students in them. 33%
of these students major in Humanities, 29% in Social Sciences, 12% in
Physics, Math, and Computers, 10% in Engineering and Architecture, 6% in
Medicine and related fields, 5% in Law, 4% in Biological Sciences, and 1%
in Agriculture.
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