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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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- Wednesday 11 January 2012
January 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The foreign ministry of Israel on Tuesday named an envoy to the new Republic of South Sudan, few weeks after South Sudan’s president visited the Jewish State. The Israeli diplomat Haim Koren has been (...)
- Thursday 24 May 2012
May 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – An official from Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has accused local spies of Israel’s national intelligence agency known as Mossad of providing information that enabled the bombing of a car in the (...)
- 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 (...)
- 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 5 November 2012
November 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese parliament revealed on Sunday that the country’s military budget will be increased next year to strengthen the army’s defense capabilities as criticism grows over the failure to respond to an (...)
- 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 (...)
- Wednesday 6 April 2011
*SOURCE: Sudanese Media Center (SMC) website
- Friday 1 March 2013
February 28, 2013 (LONDON) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees has demanded that Israel provide an explanation for the secret deportation of more than 1,000 Sudanese migrants via a third country. Sudanese Refugees with a translator (...)
- 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 14 October 2009
October 13, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — The Sudanese government downplayed the significance of changes made to the new generation of Sudanese passports that practically allows its bearer to use it to travel to Israel. Israeli flag
Khartoum (...)
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