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Israel Standard Time (UTC+2) Israel Summer Time (UTC+3) Grey colours indicate areas which do not follow either IST or IDT. Israel Standard Time (IST) (Hebrew: שעון ישראל Sha'on Yisra'el, lit. "Clock of Israel") is the standard time zone in Israel. It is two hours ahead of UTC (UTC+02:00).
In Israel, it is used for religious purposes, provides a time frame for agriculture, and is an official calendar for civil holidays alongside the Gregorian calendar. Like other lunisolar calendars, the Hebrew calendar consists of months of 29 or 30 days which begin and end at approximately the time of the new moon.
Time zone: UTC+2:00 • Summer UTC+3:00 : Date format ... Israel, [a] officially the State of Israel, [b] is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
The group also has a history of targeting Israel overseas, including a 1992 bomb attack at the Israeli embassy in Argentina that killed 29 people, and attacks on Israeli diplomats in India ...
Time zone in Israel: yellow. Israel Standard Time ( UTC+2) Israel Summer Time ( UTC+3) Grey colours indicate areas which do not follow either IST or IDT. When IDT starts, clocks advance from 02:00 to 03:00. When IDT ends, clocks retreat from 02:00 to 01:00. Israel Summer Time ( Hebrew: שעון קיץ she'on kayits "Summer Clock"), also in ...
At the same time, 10,500 Israelis came back to Israel after over one year abroad; 84% were Jews, 9% Others, and 7% Arabs. [114] According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, as of 2005, 650,000 Israelis had left the country for over one year and not returned. Of them, 530,000 are still alive today.
Israel on the world map. Israel lies to the north of the equator around 31°30' north latitude and 34°45' east longitude. [1] It measures 424 km (263 mi) from north to south [dubious – discuss] and, at its widest point 114 km (71 mi), from east to west. [1] At its narrowest point, however, this is reduced to just 15 km (9 mi).
Religion in Israel is manifested primarily in Judaism, the ethnic religion of the Jewish people. The State of Israel declares itself as a "Jewish and democratic state" and is the only country in the world with a Jewish-majority population (see Jewish state). [2] Other faiths in the country include Islam (predominantly Sunni), Christianity ...