{"id":10893,"date":"2018-08-09T12:23:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10893"},"modified":"2018-08-09T12:23:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T12:23:30","slug":"israel-fast-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10893","title":{"rendered":"Israel Fast Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>Here is a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1945-1952\/creation-israel\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a>, which declared independence in 1948. It borders the Mediterranean Sea, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/07\/03\/world\/africa\/egypt-fast-facts\/index.html\">Egypt<\/a>, the Red Sea, Jordan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/06\/18\/world\/meast\/syria-fast-facts\/index.html\">Syria<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/03\/world\/meast\/lebanon-fast-facts\/index.html\">Lebanon<\/a> in the Middle East. Since its founding, Israel has experienced conflict with its neighbors, mainly Arab and Muslim countries, and Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><u><strong>About Israel:<\/strong><\/u> <br \/>(from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/geos\/is.html\" target=\"_blank\">CIA World Fact Book<\/a>)<br \/><strong>Area: <\/strong>20,770 sq km (about the size of New Jersey)<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><strong>Population: <\/strong>8,299,706 (July 2017 est, includes Golan Heights and East Jerusalem)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)Here is a look at Israel, which declared independence in 1948. It borders the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt, the Red Sea, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon in the Middle East. Since its founding, Israel has experienced conflict with its neighbors, mainly Arab and Muslim countries, and Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied territories. About Israel: (from the CIA World&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}