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D. Elected members of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, select a prime minister who is the head of the government. Israelis also elect a president as head of state, but he has limited and largely ceremonial duties. The coalition government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing collapse over the draft issue.
B. Israel is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan and the West Bank in the east, Egypt and the Gaza Strip on the southwest, and the Red Sea to the south. The Mideast Arab nations of Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Iraq also spend more of their wealth on military spending than sixth-ranked Israel.
D. Of Israel's estimated 7.8 million people, 5.9 million are Jews. Arab citizens of Israel comprise about 20 percent of the population. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, there were 13.4 million Jews worldwide in 2009, including more than 5.2 million in the United States. An estimated 6 million European Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust.
A. On June 7, 1981, Israeli warplanes destroyed a reactor in Osirak, Iraq. In 2007, an Israeli air strike in Syria reportedly hit a nuclear facility being built with North Korea's help. Israel and the United States are believed to be involved in cyberwarfare against Iran's nuclear program. Israeli agents also have been blamed for sabotage and the assassinations of nuclear scientists.