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| | > Israel abcworld.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | The area on which the State of Israel now stands was the birthplace of Judaism in the 10th century BCE or earlier and of Christianity at the beginning of the 1st century CE. |
 | | Israel has borders with Lebanon and Syria in the north, Jordan in the east, and Egypt in the south-west, and has coastlines of the Mediterranean, the Gulf of Eilat (also known as the Gulf of Aqaba), and the Dead Sea. |
 | | Israel has occupied the West Bank, known in Israel and by its supporters as Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (jointly known as the Palestinian Territories), as well as the Golan Heights of Syria, since the Six-Day War of 1967. |
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