Israel

Israel is a small yet diverse country. The modern State of Israel was established in 1948 as a homeland for the Jewish people, but the region contains thousands of years of history for many peoples and religions in addition to the Jews.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Tel Aviv and Nazareth.

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is the second largest city in Israel, and the largest metropolitan area.

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is a city in northern Israel.

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is the third largest city in Israel and the…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Israeli Coastal Plain and Negev.

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The is the Israeli segment…

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The or Naqab is the name for a desert and semidesert area in southern Israel.

The is a region within the of Israel.

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The , often referred to simply as "Mount…

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The is a mountainous region in central…

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The is the most northern coastal region of Israel.

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The Sea of Galilee, also called Lake Tiberias…

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The is a range of low hills between the…

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The is a geographical region located in northern Israel and .

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The , or Marj Ibn Amir is a large…

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is Israel's primary airport.
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Israel

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Latitude of center
31.672° or 31° 40′ 19″ north
Longitude of center
34.827° or 34° 49′ 37″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 424297647
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
294640
Wiki­data ID
Q801

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Israel” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Ауриатәыла”
  • Abkhazian: “Израиль”
  • Achinese: “Israel”
  • Achinese: “Israèl”
  • Adyghe: “Исраил”
  • Afrikaans: “Israel”
  • Afrikaans: “Staat Israel”
  • Akan: “Israel”
  • Albanian: “Izrael”
  • Albanian: “Izraeli”
  • Amharic: “እስራኤል”
  • Amis: “Israel”
  • Angika: “इजराइल”
  • Arabic: “إسرائيل”
  • Arabic: “اسرائيل”
  • Arabic: “الدولة العبرية”
  • Arabic: “الكيان الصهيوني”
  • Arabic: “دولة إسرائيل”
  • Aragonese: “Israel”
  • Armenian: “Իզրաել”
  • Armenian: “Իսրայել”
  • Arpitan: “Israèl”
  • Arpitan: “Israyèl”
  • Assamese: “ইজৰাইল”
  • Asturian: “Israel”
  • Atayal: “Israel”
  • Avaric: “Гlизраил”
  • Avaric: “Исраил”
  • Awadhi: “इजरायल”
  • Aymara: “Israel”
  • Aymara: “Israyil”
  • Azerbaijani: “ISR”
  • Azerbaijani: “İsrail”
  • Balinese: “Israél”
  • Bambara: “Isirayeli”
  • Bambara: “Israil”
  • Bashkir: “Израиль”
  • Bashkir: “Исраил”
  • Basque: “Israel”
  • Batak Mandailing: “ᯤᯘ᯲ᯒᯀᯩᯞ᯲”
  • Batak Toba: “Israel”
  • Batak Toba: “ᯤᯘ᯲ᯒᯀᯩᯞ᯲”
  • Bavarian: “Israel”
  • Bavarian: “Stoat Israel”
  • Bavarian: “Stoot Israel”
  • Belarusian: “Дзяржава Ізраіль”
  • Belarusian: “Ізраіль”
  • Bengali: “ইসরায়েল”
  • Bengali: “ইস্রায়েল”
  • Betawi: “Israèl”
  • Bhojpuri: “इजराइल”
  • Bishnupriya: “ইসরাইল”
  • Bislama: “Israel”
  • Bosnian: “Izrael”
  • Brahui: “Isráíl”
  • Breton: “Israel”
  • Bulgarian: “Израел”
  • Burmese: “အစ္စရေး”
  • Burmese: “အစ္စရေးနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Estat d’Israel”
  • Catalan: “Israel”
  • Cebuano: “Israel”
  • Central Bikol: “Israel”
  • Central Kanuri: “Israel”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیسرائیل”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئیسڕائیل”
  • Chamorro: “Israel”
  • Chavacano: “Israel”
  • Chechen: “Израиль”
  • Chechen: “Исраил”
  • Cherokee: “ᎢᏏᎵᏱ”
  • Chinese: “Yǐsèliè”
  • Chinese: “以国”
  • Chinese: “以國”
  • Chinese: “以色列”
  • Choctaw: “Islayel”
  • Church Slavic: “Їздраил҄ь”
  • Church Slavic: “Їꙁдраил҄ь”
  • Chuvash: “Израиль”
  • Cornish: “Israel”
  • Cornish: “Ysrael”
  • Corsican: “Israele”
  • Corsican: “Statu d’Israele”
  • Crimean Tatar: “İsrail”
  • Croatian: “Izrael”
  • Czech: “Israel”
  • Czech: “Izrael”
  • Czech: “Jisra’el”
  • Czech: “stát Izrael”
  • Czech: “Stát Izrael”
  • Dagbani: “Israel”
  • Danish: “Israel”
  • Dhivehi: “އިސްރާއީލު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “İsrail”
  • Dotyali: “इजरायल”
  • Dutch: “ISR”
  • Dutch: “Israel”
  • Dutch: “Israël”
  • Dutch: “Staat Israël”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིཛ་རཱེལ་”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིས་ར་ཡེལ”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨིས་རེལ་རྒྱལ་ཁབ།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Израиль”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اسرائيل”
  • Erzya: “Израиль Мастор”
  • Erzya: “Израиль”
  • Esperanto: “Israelo”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝtato Israelo”
  • Estonian: “Iisrael”
  • Estonian: “Iisraeli Riik”
  • Ewe: “Israel nutome”
  • Extremaduran: “Israel”
  • Faroese: “Ísrael”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Israel”
  • Fijian: “Isireli”
  • Finnish: “Israel”
  • Finnish: “Israelin valtio”
  • French: “État d’Israël”
  • French: “État hébreu”
  • French: “Isr.”
  • French: “ISR”
  • French: “Israel”
  • French: “Israël”
  • French: “l’État d’Israël”
  • Friulian: “Israêl”
  • Fulah: “Israa’iila”
  • Gagauz: “İsrail”
  • Gagauz: “İzrail”
  • Galician: “Estado de Israel”
  • Galician: “Israel”
  • Gan Chinese: “以色列”
  • Ganda: “Yisirayeri”
  • Georgian: “ისრაელი”
  • German: “Israel”
  • German: “Staat Israel”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Israel”
  • Gilaki: “ايسرائيل”
  • Goan Konkani: “Israel”
  • Goan Konkani: “इज्राएल”
  • Goan Konkani: “इस्राएल”
  • Gorontalo: “Isra’el”
  • Gothic: “𐌹𐍃𐍂𐌰𐌴𐌻”
  • Greek: “Ισραήλ”
  • Guarani: “Israel”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Éta Israyèl”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Israyèl”
  • Gujarati: “ઇઝરાઇલ”
  • Gujarati: “ઇઝરાયલ”
  • Gujarati: “ઈઝરાયલ”
  • Haitian: “Izrayèl”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yî-set-lie̍t”
  • Hausa: “Isra’ila”
  • Hausa: “Israʼila”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻIkelaʻela”
  • Hawaiian: “ʻIseraʻela”
  • Hebrew: “Ereẕ Yisra’el”
  • Hebrew: “Medinat Yisra’el”
  • Hebrew: “ישראל”
  • Hebrew: “מדינת ישראל”
  • Hindi: “इजराइल”
  • Hindi: “इज़राइल”
  • Hindi: “इज़्राइल”
  • Hindi: “इसराइल”
  • Hindi: “इस्राइल”
  • Hungarian: “Izrael Állam”
  • Hungarian: “Izrael”
  • Iban: “Israel”
  • Icelandic: “Ísrael”
  • Ido: “Israel”
  • Igbo: “Israel”
  • Iloko: “Israel”
  • Inari Sami: “Israel staatâ”
  • Inari Sami: “Israel”
  • Indonesian: “Israel”
  • Indonesian: “Negara Israel”
  • Ingush: “Жугтехье”
  • Ingush: “Жугтече”
  • Interlingua: “Israel”
  • Interlingue: “Israel”
  • Inuktitut: “ᐄᓴᕅᓕ”
  • Irish: “Iosrael”
  • Italian: “Israele”
  • Italian: “Stato d’Israele”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Izrel”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Izriel”
  • Japanese: “イスラエル”
  • Japanese: “イスラエル国”
  • Javanese: “Israel”
  • Javanese: “Israèl”
  • Jèrriais: “Êtat d’Israêl”
  • Jèrriais: “Êtat d’Israël”
  • Jèrriais: “Israêl”
  • Jèrriais: “Israël”
  • Jju: “Isrela”
  • Kabardian: “Исраил”
  • Kabardian: “Исраэл”
  • Kabiyè: “Izrɛɛlɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Israel”
  • Kabyle: “Israyel”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Israel”
  • Kalaallisut: “Israel”
  • Kalmyk: “Изралмудин Орн”
  • Kannada: “ಇಸ್ರೇಲ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Izrail”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “İzrail”
  • Kashmiri: “اِسرٲیل”
  • Kashmiri: “اِسرایٖل”
  • Kashubian: “Izrael”
  • Kazakh: “Израиль”
  • Khmer: “រដ្ឋអ៊ីស្រាអែល”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ីស្រាអែល”
  • Kikuyu: “Israel”
  • Kikuyu: “Israeli”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Isirayeli”
  • Kirghiz: “Израиль”
  • Kölsch: “Israel”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Исраэль”
  • Komi: “Израиль”
  • Kongo: “Israel”
  • Korean: “이스라엘”
  • Kurdish: “Îsraêl”
  • Kurdish: “Îsraîl”
  • Ladin: “Israel”
  • Ladino: “Israel”
  • Ladino: “Medinat Yisrael”
  • Ladino: “Yisrael”
  • Ladino: “ישראל”
  • Ladino: “מדינת ישראל”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອິດສະຣາເອນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດອິດສະຣາແອນ”
  • Lao: “ລັດໄຊອອນນິດ”
  • Lao: “ລັດຢິວ”
  • Lao: “ລັດອິດສະຣາແອນ”
  • Lao: “ອິສຣາເອວ”
  • Latgalian: “Izraeļs”
  • Latin: “Civitas Israel”
  • Latin: “Civitas Israël”
  • Latin: “Israel”
  • Latin: “Israël”
  • Latvian: “Izraēla”
  • Lezghian: “Израиль”
  • Ligurian: “Isræ”
  • Limburgan: “Israël”
  • Lingala: “Isirayelɛ”
  • Lingala: “Israel”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Israel”
  • Literary Chinese: “以國”
  • Literary Chinese: “以色列”
  • Lithuanian: “Izraelis”
  • Liv: “Izrael”
  • Livvi: “Izrail”
  • Lojban: “brogu’e”
  • Lombard: “Israel”
  • Lombard: “Israell”
  • Low German: “Israel”
  • Low German: “Israël”
  • Low German: “Staot Israël”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Israel”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Isirayele”
  • Lule Sami: “Israella”
  • Luxembourgish: “Israel”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Israel”
  • Macedonian: “Израел”
  • Madurese: “Israel”
  • Magahi: “इजराइल”
  • Maithili: “इजरायल”
  • Malagasy: “Israely”
  • Malay: “Israel”
  • Malay: “negara di Asia Barat yang diduduki Yahudi”
  • Malay: “اسرائيل”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്രയേൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ഇസ്രായേൽ”
  • Maltese: “Iżrael”
  • Maltese: “Stat ta’ Iżrael”
  • Manipuri: “ꯏꯁ꯭ꯔꯦꯜ”
  • Manx: “Israel”
  • Maori: “Iharaira”
  • Marathi: “इस्त्राइल”
  • Marathi: “इस्रायल”
  • Mazanderani: “اسرائیل”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ī-sáik-liĕk”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Í-sek-lia̍t-kok”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Í-sek-lia̍t”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Israel”
  • Minangkabau: “Israel”
  • Mingrelian: “ისრაელი”
  • Mingrelian: “ისრაელიშ სახენწჷფო”
  • Mirandese: “Eisrael”
  • Moksha: “Израиль масторсь”
  • Moksha: “Израиль”
  • Mon: “အေဿရေလ်”
  • Mongolian: “Израил”
  • Mongolian: “Израиль”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “إسرائيل”
  • Mossi: “Israel”
  • N'Ko: “ߌߛߑߙߊߌߟ”
  • Nauru: “Israel”
  • Nauru: “Iteraer”
  • Navajo: “Ízrel bikéyah”
  • Navajo: “Sǫʼ Dineʼé Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Isdraele”
  • Neapolitan: “Israele”
  • Nepali: “इजरायल”
  • Newari: “इजराइल”
  • Newari: “इजरायल”
  • Newari: “ईजराईल”
  • Nias: “Israel”
  • North Ndebele: “Isuraeli”
  • Northern Frisian: “Israel”
  • Northern Luri: “اسرائیل”
  • Northern Sami: “Israel stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Israel”
  • Northern Sami: “Israela stáhta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Israel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Staten Israel”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Israel”
  • Norwegian: “Israel”
  • Novial: “Israel”
  • Obolo: “Ijeren”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Estat d’Israèl”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Israèl”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܝܣܪܐܝܠ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Israhēl”
  • Oriya: “ଇସ୍ରାଏଲ”
  • Oriya: “ଇସ୍ରାଏଲ୍”
  • Oromo: “Isiraa’el”
  • Ossetian: “Израиль”
  • Pa'o Karen: “အိစ်သရေးခမ်းထီ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဣသရေးလ်ခမ်း”
  • Paiwan: “Israil”
  • Pali: “इस्रैल”
  • Pampanga: “Estádu ning Israil”
  • Pampanga: “Israel”
  • Pampanga: “Israil”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਜ਼ਰਾਇਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਇਜ਼ਰਾਈਲ”
  • Papiamento: “Israel”
  • Pedi: “Israel”
  • Persian: “اسرائیل”
  • Persian: “اسراییل”
  • Persian: “رژیم صهیونیستی”
  • Pfaelzisch: “Israel”
  • Picard: “Israël”
  • Piemontese: “Israel”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Esrail”
  • Polish: “Izrael”
  • Polish: “Państwo Izrael”
  • Pontic: “Ισραήλ”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Israel”
  • Portuguese: “Estado Judeu”
  • Portuguese: “il”
  • Portuguese: “ISR”
  • Portuguese: “Israel”
  • Portuguese: “Terra Sagrada”
  • Portuguese: “Terra Santa”
  • Pushto: “اسرائيل”
  • Pushto: “اسرايل”
  • Pushto: “اسراييل”
  • Quechua: “Israel”
  • Quechua: “Israyil”
  • Romanian: “Israel”
  • Romanian: “Statul Israel”
  • Romanian: “Țara Sfântă”
  • Romansh: “Israel”
  • Rundi: “Isiraheli”
  • Russia Buriat: “Израиль”
  • Russian: “Государство Израиль”
  • Russian: “Израиль”
  • Rusyn: “Ізраел”
  • Rusyn: “Ізраіль”
  • Sakizaya: “Israel”
  • Samoan: “Isaraelu”
  • Samoan: “Israel”
  • Samogitian: “Ėzraelis”
  • Samogitian: “Izraelės”
  • Samogitian: “Izraelis”
  • Sango: “Israëli”
  • Sanskrit: “इस्रेल”
  • Sanskrit: “इस्रेलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱤᱡᱽᱨᱟᱭᱮᱞ”
  • Saraiki: “اسرائیل”
  • Sardinian: “Israele”
  • Sardinian: “Istadu de Israele”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Israel”
  • Scots: “Israel”
  • Scots: “State o Israel”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Iosrael”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Israel”
  • Serbian: “Izrael”
  • Serbian: “Држава Израел”
  • Serbian: “Израел”
  • Serbian: “Јеврејска Држава”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Izrael”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းဢိတ်ႇသရေး”
  • Shona: “Isiraeri”
  • Shona: “Israel”
  • Shona: “Izuraeri”
  • Sicilian: “Israeli”
  • Sicilian: “Statu d’Israeli”
  • Silesian: “Izrael”
  • Sindhi: “اسرائيل جي رياست”
  • Sindhi: “اسرائيل”
  • Sinhala: “ඊශ්‍රායලය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Israeeʹl riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Israeeʹl valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Israel”
  • Slovak: “Izrael”
  • Slovak: “Izraelský štát”
  • Slovenian: “Država Izrael”
  • Slovenian: “Izrael”
  • Slovenian: “judovska država”
  • Somali: “Israaiil”
  • Somali: “Israaʼiil”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ايسرائيل”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ايسراییل”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Israel”
  • Spanish: “Israel”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Israel”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵉⵙⵔⴰⵢⵉⵍ”
  • Sundanese: “Israél”
  • Sundanese: “ᮄᮞᮢᮆᮜ᮪”
  • Swahili: “Israel”
  • Swahili: “Israeli”
  • Swati: “Ka-Israyeli”
  • Swedish: “Israel”
  • Swedish: “Staten Israel”
  • Swiss German: “Israel”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠎꠞꠣꠁꠟ ꠞꠣꠁꠎ꠆ꠎ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠁꠎꠞꠣꠁꠟ”
  • Tachelhit: “Israyil”
  • Tagalog: “Israel”
  • Tajik: “Исроил”
  • Talysh: “Israil”
  • Tamil: “இசுரேல்”
  • Tamil: “இஸ்ரேல்”
  • Taroko: “Israel”
  • Tatar: “Израил”
  • Tatar: “Израиль”
  • Tatar: “Исраил”
  • Telugu: “ఇజ్రాయిల్”
  • Telugu: “ఇజ్రాయెల్”
  • Tetum: “Izraél”
  • Thai: “ประเทศอิสราเอล”
  • Thai: “รัฐไซออนนิสต์”
  • Thai: “รัฐยิว”
  • Thai: “รัฐอิสราเอล”
  • Thai: “อิสราเอล”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་ཛ྄་རེལ།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨི་སི་ར་ཨེལ།”
  • Tigre: “እስራኤል”
  • Tigrinya: “እስራኤል”
  • Tok Pisin: “Israel”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “ʻIsileli”
  • Tulu: “ಇಸ್ರೇಲ್”
  • Tumbuka: “Israel”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “إسرائيل”
  • Turkish: “İbrani devleti”
  • Turkish: “ISR”
  • Turkish: “İsrail Devleti”
  • Turkish: “İsrail”
  • Turkish: “Siyonist devlet”
  • Turkmen: “Ysraýyl”
  • Twi: “Israel”
  • Tyap: “A̱byin A̱yahuda”
  • Tyap: “A̱za̱za̱rak A̱byin”
  • Tyap: “Isi̱rela”
  • Tyap: “Si̱tet Isi̱rela”
  • Udmurt: “Израиль”
  • Uighur: “ئىسرائىلىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Держава Ізраїль”
  • Ukrainian: “Ізраїль”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Israel”
  • Urdu: “اسرائیل”
  • Urdu: “ریاست اسرائیل”
  • Urdu: “ریاستِ اسرائیل”
  • Uzbek: “Isroil”
  • Venetian: “Israel”
  • Venetian: “Israełe”
  • Venetian: “Izraełe”
  • Veps: “Evrejanma”
  • Veps: “Izrail‘”
  • Veps: “Izrail’”
  • Veps: “Izrailin Valdkund”
  • Veps: “Medinat Israel‘”
  • Veps: “Pühä Ma”
  • Vietnamese: “I-xra-en”
  • Vietnamese: “Israel (Do Thái)”
  • Vietnamese: “Israel”
  • Vlaams: “Israël”
  • Vlax Romani: “Israel”
  • Volapük: “Yisraelän”
  • Võro: “Iisrael”
  • Walloon: “Israyel”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Israel”
  • Wayuu: “Ira’eerü”
  • Welsh: “Gwladwriaeth Israel”
  • Welsh: “Israel”
  • Western Armenian: “Իսրայէլ”
  • Western Balochi: “اسرائیل”
  • Western Frisian: “Israel”
  • Western Frisian: “Steat Israel”
  • Western Panjabi: “اسرائیل”
  • Wolof: “Israayil”
  • Wolof: “Israyel”
  • Wu Chinese: “以色列”
  • Yakut: “Исраил”
  • Yiddish: “ישראל”
  • Yiddish: “מדינת ישראל”
  • Yoruba: “Iserẹli”
  • Yoruba: “Israel”
  • Yoruba: “Ísráẹ́lì”
  • Yue Chinese: “Israel”
  • Yue Chinese: “State of Israel”
  • Yue Chinese: “ישראל”
  • Yue Chinese: “מדינת ישראל”
  • Yue Chinese: “إسرائيل”
  • Yue Chinese: “دَوْلَةْ إِسْرَائِيل”
  • Yue Chinese: “以色列”
  • Yue Chinese: “以色列國”
  • Zeeuws: “Israël”
  • Zhuang: “Yijswzlez”
  • Zulu: “Isirayeli”
  • Zulu: “Isreyili”
  • Zulu: “kwa-Israel”
  • “Država Izraelj”
  • “Izraelj”
  • “ma Isale”
  • “Држава Израељ”
  • “Израељ”

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