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Israel Israel
Capital: Jerusalem
Region Middle East / eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea / western Asia
Bordering Countries
Official languages: Hebrew, Arabic
Government - Parliamentary democracy
- President - Shimon Peres
- Prime Minister - Benjamin Netanyahu
Independence from Mandatory Palestine Declaration - 14 May 1948
Area: 20,770/22,072 km2
Population: 7,933,200 (2012 estimate)
Currency: New shekel (ILS)
Internet TLD: .il
Calling code: 972
Websites:
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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- Tuesday 1 January 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
December 31, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Israel’s Interior Minister has requested for legal approval to allow authorities to carryout the mass deportation of tens and thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers and (...)
- Saturday 25 February 2012
February 24, 2012 (JUBA) – Christians in South Sudan are planning a pilgrimage to Israel in fulfillment of what they say was God’s promise in the Bible to the people of the region, senior Church leaders have announced. FILE - A Bishop (...)
- Monday 4 February 2013
February 3, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has met with the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Ramadan Shalah, at his residence in Khartoum. Exiled Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) (...)
- Thursday 25 October 2012
October 24, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government has blamed an Israeli airstrike for the explosion of a military factory in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday, warning that it reserves the right to respond, while Tel Aviv maintained (...)
- Sunday 7 October 2012
By Toby Collins
October 5, 2012 (LONDON) - Israel’s interior minister Eli Yishai said on Wednesday 15,000 Sudanese asylum seekers will be detained from October 15, claiming they are not refugees; something which the UN refugee agency (...)
- Wednesday 5 December 2012
December 4, 2012 (JUBA) - Representatives of South Sudanese who have returned from Israel a few months ago have appealed to the government to help them reintegrate into the society by alleviating their economic hardship. South Sudanese (...)
- Friday 27 July 2012
July 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – South Sudan and Israel signed, in the latter’s capital Tel Aviv this week, their first economic cooperation agreement which focuses on development of technology and water infrastructure. South Sudan President (...)
- Saturday 1 December 2012
By Toby Collins
November 26, 2012 (LONDON) – As the Israel-Gaza conflict continues to dominate the news, with a recent ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt, the Sudanese Ambassador to the UK spoke about Israel-Sudan relations in the (...)
- Wednesday 6 April 2011
*SOURCE: Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website
- Tuesday 30 April 2013
April 29, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government renewed allegations to Israel of standing behind insurgents fighting Khartoum on multiple fronts. Sudanese ambassador to Moscow Omar Dahab Fadul (Chamber of Commerce and Industry of (...)
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