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[33] Across Israel there are more than 150 nature reserves and 65 national parks, about 1000 square kilometers in size.


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The areas are cared for by the Israel Nature and Parks Administration.


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Twenty of them have been developed for public use, with two million visitors each year.


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Mount Carmel has been designated a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.


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Hundreds of plants and animals, including oak, palm and animals gazelle and leopard, have been protected, and rescue programs have been put in place for endangered species.


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[33] Metropolises In 2004, the Israeli census defined three metropolitan areas: Tel Aviv — 2933700 people Haifa — 980600 people Beersheba — 511800 people Jerusalem could also be called a metropolitan area, but it is difficult to define it because the settlement spreads such a wide area and the boundaries of the city itself are blurry.


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The official population of the city of Jerusalem is 724000 (2006).


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Including Nazareth and its Muslim-majority suburbs, the area would also be included in large metropolitan areas.


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Population Israel enacted the Return Migration Act in 1950, under which all Jews have the right to immigrate to the country as an olena, or Jewish immigrant, and obtain citizenship of the country.


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According to the definition of the law, anyone born of a Jewish mother or who has converted to the Jewish religion is considered Jewish, and is not a member of any other religious community.


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In 1970, the law was expanded to include all descendants of a Jewish parent or grandparent, spouses of Jews, and the spouse of a Jewish descendant.


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Those former citizens of British Palestine who lived in the country from 1948 to 1952 are also entitled to return to Israel.


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In recent years, Jews, especially from the former Soviet Union, have been emigrated by law.


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Since 1990, more than a million Russians have entered the country, which today constitute the largest population group in the country.


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[34] Non-Jews can also immigrate according to the normal immigration process, and citizenship can be obtained within five years.


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Israel is the only state in the world where a majority of the population is Jewish.


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77.7% of the Israeli population are Jews of different regions, with the largest groups being those born in Europe or the United States (32.1%), those born in Israel (20.8%) and those born in Africa (14.6%).


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Arabs make up 18.5% of the population.


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Other groups account for 4.3% of the population.


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76.2% of Israelis are Jewish by religion, 16.1% Muslims and 2.1% Christians.


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Druuses in religion make up 1.6% of the population.


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Druze are ethnically often classified as Arabs, but they generally do not consider themselves Arabs, but as their own group.


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[35] [36] Israeli religious Jews are roughly divided into two groups: about 12% are considered Haredi Jews (so-called ultra-Orthodox) and about 9% consider themselves religious Zionists.


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The Haredi strive to live according to the customs of the time of Moses and are in principle suspicious of even the State of Israel, because according to traditional Jewish conception, Israel should come into existence only when the Messiah comes.


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Today, the Haredi have become more interested in politics and seek to “Jewise” society.


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Their goal is a Torah state based on religious law.


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The influence of the Haredis increases as their population share increases thanks to the high birth rate.


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[37] 43% are secularized, or hilons, of whom 53% state their belief in God.


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Of all Jews in Israel, 65% believe in God and 5% report being non-religious.


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Of all Israelis, 78% spend the Sabbath.


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[38] Of Israeli Arabs, 82.3% are Muslims, 9% are Christians and 8.5% are Druze.


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Almost all Muslim Arabs are Sunni Muslims, and the majority live in northern parts of the country.


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Bedouin Arabs belonging to thirty tribes are also Muslims and live sparsely in the deserts of southern parts.


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Bedouin are already generally ending Bedouin life and entering the workforce.


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Arab Christians live in Nazareth, Shfar'am and Haifa.


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Some 3000 Adygeians live in the northern villages, who are Sunni Muslims, however not Arabs, and are not part of communities of other Muslims.


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According to Human Rights Watch, Israeli Arabs are subject to discrimination within the country, including in education.


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[39] Culture Israel is a multicultural and -language society in which many ethnic groups and denominations are represented.


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A central place in the culture is occupied by festivities and traditions associated with the Jewish religion.


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The culture of Israel has been influenced by the cultures of Jews who immigrated from different regions, for example Sephardic and Ashkenasi Jews and Ethiopian Jews.


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The Arab minority has maintained its own culture.


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The preservation of the heritage of minority groups is supported by monetary grants and other support.


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Arabs have taken an active part in electronic media in general and Arabic language productions.


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[40] Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are centers of culture with many exhibitions, theaters and other cultural life.


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Israelis diligently read newspapers.


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Major daily newspapers appear in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Russian.


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Newspapers are also published in French, Polish, Yiddish, Hungarian, German and Persian.


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Kol Israel ('The Voice of Israel') offers radio programs on eight radio channels and 17 languages.


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The state has two television channels serving in Hebrew, Arabic and English.


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Three private producers operate on one commercial channel.


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Pay cable television is available in most of the country and can receive programming from a variety of American, European and Asian television networks.


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Israel has a millennia of history and is historically important to the four monotheistic religions Much effort has been invested in archaeology in Israel, with relics protected, excavated and placed for public viewing.


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Researchers from the University of Helsinki have participated in the excavations from Finland.


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In the Middle East, archaeological finds are interpreted in various contexts, often to support their own political and religious ideas.


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Thus, the extent of the Kingdom of David has served in part as an ideal for the borders of the State of Israel, for example on the issue of the Golan Heights.


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[41] Literature, theatre and cinema Israeli literature is highly regarded: Samuel Josef Agnon received the Nobel Prize in Literature 1966.


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David Grossman has been a Nobel candidate.


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Well-known contemporary writers include Amos Oz, Yehudit Katzir, Etgar Keret, Orly Castel-Blum, Gadi Taub, Irit Linor, Mira Magen, Batya Gur and Shulamit Lapid, and poet Jehuda Amihai.


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In addition to Hebrew, much literature is published in Arabic, English and French.


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With 1 million Russian immigrants, Israel has the highest number of Russian-language literature published in the world after Russia.


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Theatre has not been part of traditional Jewish culture.


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Israeli theatre got its start with the advent of Russian immigrants.


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The first theater was founded 1931 in Tel Aviv, and today there are several theaters in Israel.


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[42] Israeli film exports are on the rise with internationally successful films.


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Films in the past have often dealt with Israeli-Arab confrontation.


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The Israel Film Center, under the Israeli Ministry of Trade and Industry, promotes and supports the country's film sector.


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Film Archive The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is the world's largest archive of Jewish cinema.


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Music in Israel is a strong art music tradition that came to the country mainly with the participation of Ashkenasi Jews who immigrated from Central and Eastern Europe.


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The Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra (now the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) held its first concert in Tel Aviv in 1936 under Arturo Toscanini.


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Another notable symphony orchestra in the country is the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.


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In 1980, New Israel Opera was founded in the country.


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Well-known Israeli art musicians include pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim and violinists Shlomo Mintz, Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman.


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Major international attention has been received by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, founded in 1998 by Daniel Barenboim, in which both Jewish and Palestinian young musicians play, and the Young Palestine Chamber Orchestra, founded in 2003.


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The orchestras have performed concertos in the West Bank city of Ramallah, among others.


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[43] [44] Israel has won the Eurovision Song Contest four times, most recently in 2018 with the song “Toy” by Netta Barzilai.


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Other popular performers in pop and rock music have included Idan Raichel, Ofra Haza, Kaveret, Izhar Cohen and Gali Atari.


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In recent years, hip-hop music has also gained a wider listener base with the popularity of Tamer Nafar, an Arab-Israeli, among others.


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Sports Sport has a prominent place in Israeli culture and Israeli sports culture very much resembles that of European countries.


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The most popular sports in the country are football and basketball, but the country has also achieved international success in areas such as handball and fixture gymnastics.


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Israel has won a total of 9 Olympic medals so far in judo, canoeing and windsurfing.


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There are also major Jewish sports competitions Maccabids held in Israel every four years.


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Economy Originally based on farming, the economy has grown strongly, especially in the decades since independence, and Israel's economy is modern and diverse.


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Significant export products (total.


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nearly 30 billion in 2003) are e.g.


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heavy machinery industry (also includes weapons industry), memory chips and processors, electro-optics products, computer software, pharmaceutical products, cut diamonds, agricultural products such as Jaffa oranges, chemicals and clothing.


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High-tech plays a significant part in the economy.


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Because of non-existent natural resources, Israel has placed a high emphasis on education and been at the forefront of research in information technology, communications and life sciences.


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Israel is often talked about as the Silicon Valley of the Middle East.


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More venture capital is invested in Israel than any country in Europe, and its venture capital investment share of GDP is the highest in the world.


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Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the highest number of Nasdaq-listed companies in the world.


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[45] Israel's patent figures are among the highest in the world.


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In the early 2010s, huge deposits of natural gas and shale oil have been discovered in Israel, which are in the process of changing Israel's political, economic and military position significantly.


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Oil deposits recently discovered in Israel are estimated to be up to the same magnitude as Saudi oil deposits.


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[46] Trade with the EU The European Union is Israel's main trading partner and exports to the Union make up 28% of Israel's total exports.


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The 1995 trade agreement, which replaced the 1975 cooperation agreement, allows Israel to import industrial products into the EU without import tariffs and seeks to promote cooperation on investment and harmonisation of laws.


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[47] There have been disagreements between the EU and Israel over imports into the EU of products made in West Bank and Gaza settlements as Israeli products, but the dispute was agreed in the summer of 2004.


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[48] The Arab boycott has kept trade with Arab countries low, but Egypt and Jordan, among others, have opened trade.


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United States most significant contributor About half of the economic and military loan guarantees and other aid Israel receives comes from the United States and the rest mostly from the European Union.


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About half of Israel's foreign debt originates in the United States, and a significant portion of the total debt comes from individuals through the Israeli promissory note program.


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Germany has provided Israel with palpable grants and entered into cooperation agreements to develop industry and armed forces in recompense for Nazi Germany's crimes against Jews.


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Tourism Both foreign and intra-country tourism are major livelihoods in Israel and account for 3-4% of the country's GDP, of which foreign tourism accounts for 35% to 40%.


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The calmness of the region has somewhat reduced tourism to the area in recent years.


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[49] The most famous tourist destinations are Eilat, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tiberias and Lake Genesaret, Haifa, Zefat (Safed), the Dead Sea and Be'er Sheva and the Negev Desert.


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Attractions are historic buildings, cities and places or nature attractions.


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The most famous sights in Jerusalem are the biblical sites in the Old City and its vicinity, as well as around Lake Genesaret.


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Zefat (Safed) is a destination for religious pilgrims, and the high altitude town offers fine views.


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Tel Aviv and Haifa are major cities.


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On the Dead Sea are located saltwater baths and hotels, natural parks and the mountain fortress of Masada.


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There are staggering vantage points and beautiful natural parks in the Negev Desert, the Galilee and the Golan Highlands.


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Eilat has bathing beaches and is one of the best diving sites in the world.


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The most visible part of the security effort in Israel is security checks at doors in shops and shopping centres, as well as checkpoints on the roads.


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Even if checkpoints aren't normally manned — or if they are, no cars are stopped — it's always worth silencing and being prepared to stop.


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Current information on the security situation in Israel can be obtained, for example, by the Finnish


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Notable companies from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the world's largest generic drug manufacturer.


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Natural Resources Israel's most significant natural resources are copper, phosphate, bromine, sulfur, potash, natural gas.


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[50] and shale oil.


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[51] The most significant export products are high-tech (more than half of exports), e.g.


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information and communication technology, pharmaceutical equipment, software, diagnostics, biotechnology, fine chemicals, electro-optics and measurement technology, and machinery industry products.


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Some Israeli foods are quite well-known, but agricultural products account for only a few percent of Israel's exports.


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Politics Israel is a parliamentary democratic republic with equal voting rights.


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Israel's unicameral 120-member parliament is called the knesset.


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Representative seats are allocated according to the party endorsement according to the proportional representation method.


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Knesset is elected by popular vote every four years, but MPs can call an early election by voting on confidence.


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The President of Israel is essentially a representative office.


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The president is elected by parliament for a seven-year term.


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The president chooses the leader of the majority party or alliance as Prime Minister.


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Israel's head of state is the president, but it follows from British-style majority parliamentarianism that the prime minister is effectively the country's political leader.


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Israel's president is Reuven Rivlin, elected in 2014.


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The prime minister since 2009 is Benjamin Netanyahu of the Likud Party.


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The position of prime ministers is hampered by the fragmentation of the Knesset.


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Governments have often been politically weak “governments of national unity”.


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Early elections have been commonplace.


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Israel considers Jerusalem as its capital, and the knesses and most of the regime are located there.


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[52] Jerusalem has not been recognized as a capital by the international community, including Finland, and the vast majority of embassies are located in Tel Aviv.


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[53] According to Hannu Juusola, the major political issues in Israel are issues that a young state normally has to solve as soon as it becomes independent.


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The “external eternity conflict” with the Palestinians awaits resolution, and the borders of the country are waiting for final definition.


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Another problem is that the country has no constitution.


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The third “ultimate question” concerns external status: whether Israel is part of the Middle East, an eternal bastion of European culture or even colonialism in the Third World, or no less than a sort of remote “state” of the US.


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[54] The lack of a constitution stems from the failure to agree on what “Jewish state” means.


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The secular and moderate majority view Judaism as an ethnic concept and want a state based on secular law.


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Some, on the other hand, want a theocracy based on Jewish law halakha.


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According to the largest religious party, the god-given torah is the constitution, that's all you need.


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[37] The lack of a constitution has been replaced by the so-called Basic Laws, which are supposed to sometimes form the Constitution.


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The right is independent from other governmental bodies.


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The judicial system is three-tier and includes a sub-court, a district court, and a supreme court.


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Supreme Court justices are appointed by the president for life.


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Transport, labour, youth, war and municipal matters have their own legal courts.


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Religious legislation is in place in family matters.


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Jewish affairs are handled by rabbinic court, Muslim affairs by Sharia court, Druze affairs by their own courts, and the ecclesiastical rights of the ten recognized Christian denominations.


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[55] Domestic politics The most prominent ruling parties in Israel until very recently have been the left-wing Labour Party and the 1973 born right-wing Likud.


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Ariel Sharon became the country's first prime minister from outside these parties after the Likud Party dissolved into internal strife and Sharon's resignation from it.


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The new centrist Kadima Party, founded by Sharon in the fall of 2005, emerged as the largest party in the Knesset in the 2006 elections, and its chairman, Jehud Olmert, became the country's prime minister.


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Kadima attracted name politicians from right and left alike.


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In the 2009 elections, Likud emerged as the winner, which formed a government with the Haredi Shas, the Labour Party and Yisrael Beiteinu Party, which is mainly read as far-right [56] [57].


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Due to its proportional representation as well as social fragmentation since the 1990s, the country also has a large number of smaller parties, which have often held a significant scale language position in the country's parliament and thus proportionally greater influence than their size.


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Small parties include Meretz-Jahhad (“Social Democrats”), Ra'am (“United Arab List”), Ta'al (“Arab Movement for Renewal”), Shas, National Religious Party, Yisrael Beiteinu, Communist Party of Israel, Balad (“National Democratic Coalition”).


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However, the participation of Arab parties Ra'am, Ta'al and Balad in the 2009 elections is banned.


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[58] Nonetheless, they hold a total of 8 seats in the Knesset.


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Similar to many European countries, a group of foreign non-Jewish migrant workers has also emerged in Israel.


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By the turn of the millennium, the share of legal and illegal migrants in the workforce had increased to between 7% and 14%.


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Israel, leaning towards Jewish identity, has not had the nonethical tools to integrate immigrants into society.


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The country's liberal economic policy emphasizes the free market, which is liable to weaken the state as well as emphasising the importance of individuality.


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On the other hand, the Palestinian minority, more alienated from Israeli society, emphasizes their Islamic faith and Palestinian identity.


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[59] Foreign Policy Israel has close ties with the world's industrialized countries.


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Relations with China and India were established in 1992.


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In foreign policy, Israel has a peace treaty with Egypt over the 1973 Yom Kippur War, with Jordan for the 1967 Six-Day War.


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With Syria, the dispute over its six-day war over the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights remains open, and Syria and Israel do not yet have a peace deal.


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The state of Israel has not been recognized by 32 predominantly Muslim-majority countries in North Africa and the Middle East.


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Some Orthodox Jews do not recognize the secular state of Israel.


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Arab countries have put forward a plan to normalize relations with Israel, provided that Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders, that an independent Palestinian state is established in the West Bank and Gaza with Jerusalem as its capital, and that Palestinian refugees are allowed to return to Israel to the region.


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[60] The Fourth Committee of the General Assembly devotes a third of the session's time to deal with the Israeli-Middle East conflict, a third of the HRC's country decisions concern Israel, and with the reform that has passed through Muslim countries the only mandatory structure of each session the so-called “Israel Bulletin” is prescribed.


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[61] The UN-critical United Nations Association of the United Kingdom found in its study the UN interpreted Israel's actions with significantly more negative expressions than Palestinians or Arab countries.


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However, in the view of scholars, this is not necessarily an anti-Israel bias; Israel's ignoring of UN resolutions and violations of international law would undermine the organization's credibility.


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The researchers did not take a position on the veracity of the facts behind the decisions.


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[62] According to the New York Times, relations between Israel and the UN improved in the early years of the 21st century; Ariel Sharon stated in September 2005 relations were “better than they have been ever before”.


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[63] UN Secretary-General Annan has acknowledged that “the UN's history of anti-Semitism has not matched our ideals.”


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Israeli presence is banned at all other UN offices except New York because Arab countries do not recognize the state of Israel.


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[63] The United States, the most prominent supporter of Israel, is a permanent member country of the Security Council and has frequently exercised veto power on what it sees as anti-Israel resolutions.


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[64] There is censorship in Israel for news about foreign and security policy.


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Newspapers and other traditional media covering these topics must be submitted to military censorship review by the military before their publications.


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Censorship has ordered changes or blocked about a fifth of the stories from being published.


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[65] US-Israeli relations have strengthened during the reign of US President Donald Trump.


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[66] Concerns have arisen in Israel, however, about what the country's status will be in the post-Trump era, as the country's status could be diminished if Democrats win the next election in the United States.


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[66] The Jewish People Policy Institute JPPI has stated that the American Jewish community is, in the long run, one of Israel's most important strategic assets.


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[66] For more than 50 years, the United States has been regarded as Israel's most prominent supporter.


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[66] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been criticized in his foreign policy for alienating himself from the liberal democratic world and being more xenophobic.


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[66] The Palestinian Territories and the Golan Heights UN Security Council Resolutions 242 of 1967 and 338 of 1973 called for the withdrawal of Israel's armed forces from at least some of the territories captured in 1967.


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[67] [68] Approximately three million Palestinians live in the occupied territories, as well as 200,000 Jewish settlers.


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Israel has a total of 242 settlements or other civilian sites in the West Bank, 42 in the Golan Heights and 29 in East Jerusalem.


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[69] Security Council Resolutions 446, 452, 465, and 471 consider the establishment and expansion of these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention and to be “without legitimate basis”.


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The settlements are also considered by human rights organisations Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to be contrary to international law.


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[70] [71] Israel acknowledges that some of the smaller settlements were built in violation of Israeli laws.


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[72] [73] Israel therefore uses the territorial term “disputed territories”.


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Human rights crimes Palestinians living in the Palestinian territories in the West Bank and Gaza have been the target of human rights violations.


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In 2008, there were an estimated 11000 Palestinians in Israeli prisons, 98 of whom were women, 345 children, 50 members of the Palestinian Legislative Council, as well as three Palestinian Authority ministers [74].


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According to Amnesty International reports, the majority are non-violent prisoners of conscience and very few have received a judicial review that meets international standards.


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[75] The security fence and roadblocks built by Israel make it difficult for Palestinians to move.


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The region has an unemployment rate of about 30% and more than two-thirds of the Palestinian population live below the poverty line.


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Israel's actions towards the Palestinians have been compared to South Africa's apartheid policies [76] [77] [78].


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According to critics and opponents of the apartheid analogy, the parable is factually, morally and historically incorrect and its purpose is to present Israel's actions as illegal.


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[79] According to critics, Gaza and the West Bank are not part of Israel.


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Critics argue that while the movement of Palestinians across borders is heavily controlled by Israel, the territories are governed by the Palestinian authorities and an elected Hamas, so the situation cannot be compared to South Africa's domestic apartheid policies.


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Other problems in the region include honour killings in the Palestinian territories, summary killings of suspected collaborators by armed Palestinian groups, and death penalties imposed by the Palestinian Authority.


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[80] Human Rights Watch has accused Palestinian terrorist organizations of human rights crimes and has criticized the Palestinian Authority for not making every effort to prevent attacks and to bring the perpetrators to trial.


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On the other hand, a number of Palestinian entities and organizations urge people to violence against Israel as well as against Jews.


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Amnesty International has issued a demand to Hamas to respect the human rights of all Palestinians, adhere to the standards of international law and end violence against Israeli civilians.


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[81] [82] [83] Palestinian rocket warfare Since 2001, Hamas and other Palestinian factions have shelled from Gaza into the Israeli side with rockets and mortars smuggled, among other things, along the tunnels from the Egyptian side.


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While much of it has fallen outside the settlement, continuing to be under the threat of shelling has been emotionally consuming for Israel's civilian population and has put pressure on the Israeli government to strike Gaza.


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2007 Israel's defense minister had said he would not allow evacuations of the area's population, pressured by terrorist attacks.


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[84] By the beginning of 2009, 8600 rockets had been fired into southern Israel from the Gaza Strip alone, including 6000 since Israel's 2005 withdrawal from Gaza.


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The attacks had killed 28 people and wounded hundreds within 40km of the border.


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In the past, the rockets were homemade “Kassam” rockets with a maximum 10 km range, but later Hamas acquired Russian Grad and Katjusha rockets with longer range.


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[85] Israel has responded to the threat by fortifying bus stops and reinforcing school buildings.


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In March 2011, Israel placed the first Iron Dome anti-rocket system in the area.


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By December, missile defense managed to repel 75% of the rockets, according to the IDF.


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Normally, two missiles priced at $50,000 were fired at each projection vehicle.


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[86] Palestinian militants in southern Lebanon have been shelling rockets even after the Lebanese War, in which 2009 Hezbollah was estimated to have 30,000 rockets, [87] and from the Sinai Peninsula to Eilat.


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Israel has sought to repel rocket attacks with return fire, airstrikes and a variety of large-scale ground operations, as well as the 2007 blockade of Gaza that began in June.


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Since withdrawing from Gaza, between 1000 and 2000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israeli strikes.


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In November 2012, Palestinians fired several rockets into Israel and Israel returned fire by firing rockets into Gaza and killing a senior Hamas leader.


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Israel also moved its ground forces closer to Gaza, preparing for a ground offensive.


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Limited Water Reserves The main water source on the West Bank side of the 1967 border consumes water in Israeli territory by about 80% and about 20% on the Palestinian Authority side.


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The population of Jewish settlements in the West Bank consumes almost as much water as the region's 2.3 million Palestinians.


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Under international law, the use of natural resources in occupied territories for the benefit of one's own citizens is illegal.


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[88] Israel entered into a bilateral agreement with the Palestinian Authority to create the Palestinian Water Authority.


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The Water Administration's proposals include streamlining water use in the region.


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[89] Sharon's Kadima Party wants decision-making power over Palestinian borders The Kadima Party founded by Ariel Sharon and its new chairman and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have presented Israel's decisive dispute over the borders of a Palestinian state unilaterally, as there is no negotiation advanced.


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The plan would see Israel withdraw from at least some of the territories it occupied in 1967 but retain some of its West Bank settlements.


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Gaza was handed over to the Palestinian Authority in September 2005 by unilateral Israeli decision.


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In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians are run by the Palestinian Authority.


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The Palestinian Authority, in the form of the National Council of Palestinians, declared independence as early as 1988.


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The Armed Forces of Israel (or Tzva Hagana L'Yisrael, often also in English Israel Defence Forces) are considered among the strongest in the Middle East.


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Israel's defence spending is very high due to the crisis in the Middle East: for example, in 1996 it amounted to 10.6% of the country's GDP and 21.1% of the state budget.


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The United States has given Israel about three billion dollars in development aid each year, of which, for example, in 2001, two billion was military aid.


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[90] Israel, as the first country in the world, included women under universal conscription.


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Conscribed in Israel are Jews, Druze, and Cherchesses, while Christians and Muslims are generally exempt from it as Arabs.


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[91] Haredi Jews studying in Yashiva schools have also been exempt, which the more secular Jews have resisted.


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Entering the service at the age of 18, the term of service is three years for men and 21 months for women.


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However, women do not have to go into the military if they are married or have a child.


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In 2006, the Israeli Armed Forces recruited 75% of conscripts for military service.


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[92] Conscientious objectors are referred to as refusenik.


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The Refusenik movement grew significantly with the start of the Second Intifada of 2000, when some reservists refused to operate in the Palestinian territories.


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[93] In the 21st century, the proportion of Old Jews in the strength of the army has increased as the attitude of the country's secularised population towards the military has become more critical.


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[94] Israel has an autonomous capability to launch reconnaissance satellites along with Russia, the United States, Great Britain, France, China, India and Japan.


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Well-known Israeli weapons include the Uzi submachine gun, the Galil and TAR-21 assault rifles and the Merkava tank, the former being a major export product.


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Israel supposedly has nukes.


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By the late 1990s, according to CIA estimates, Israel possessed between 75 and 140 nuclear weapons.


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According to some sources, there were as many as 400 weapons.


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[95] [96] Israel is outside the NPT.


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[97] The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) adopted a 2009 resolution on the inspection of Israel's nuclear weapons.


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Israel has refused to cooperate.


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[98] Intelligence Mossad, or “Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks”, is an Israeli intelligence agency commonly known as Mossad.


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Its missions include intelligence gathering, covert operations and counterterrorism.


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Mossad is one of the world's most famous intelligence services and is often put in the same league as the CIA and MI6.


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It is considered highly effective and is considered to have contributed greatly to Israel's stability and security.


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Israel has other intelligence services, for example the military's Shin Bet.


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In the 20th century, the United States emerged as the world's leading superpower.


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[1] The most culturally significant period of the pre-Columbian period in North America began around 1000 BCE.


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Earth mounds of varying sizes made by mound builders served as tombs for revered leaders and commerce in the area expanded.


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Commerce extended to Florida in the south, Canada in the north, and in the west to near the Rocky Mountains.


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[2] The Hopewell tradition was continued by the Mississippian culture, with classified archaeological sites found along the Mississippi River all the way from Florida to Wyoming as far as western borders cross into Oklahoma.


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In this culture, mound builders specialized in large temple mounds.


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[3] The most notable center of early Pueblo culture was in Chato Canyon in New Mexico.


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[4] The most important of the livelihoods of Native Americans spread across the northeastern and eastern forested regions of North America was farming except in the northernmost areas where cultivation was low due to the brevity of the annual growing season.


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Hunting and the collection of Native American rice was also common.


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Almost all Indians in the area were Iroquois speakers or Algonkinese.


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The Iroquois lived in large villages, which, according to common custom, were protected by sturdy pile equipment.


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The villages were formed of long houses that accommodated a large number of inhabitants.


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The Algonkins, on the other hand, predominantly used wigwams.


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[5] The best-known peoples of the Southeast Forest region were the Cherokee, Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws.


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The Cherokee spoke an Iroquois dialect; the other three were of the Muskogee language group.


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Natchezes who lived in the southwestern parts of the present-day state of Mississippi are counted as consumables within the same cultural group.


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[6] Native Americans who lived on the plains were either farmers of the Missouri River environment or bison hunters of the western short-wall prairie.


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Even before the mid-17th century, the short-wall prairie was almost uninhabited.


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Tribes living on the fringes of the plains made hunting expeditions there on foot in pursuit of bison, but did not live there.


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[7] Native Americans of the Southwest Territory include the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico.


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[8] Pueblo villages are formed of groups of houses that were embankments built together.


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The actual pueblos live mainly along the Rio Grande and on their western side lived Hopi Indians who represented the same culture.


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[9] Apaches and Navajo settled in the environment of the pueblos during the 14th—17th centuries and adopted the farming of these.


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[10] In North America, the number of Native Americans who lived north of present-day Mexico around the year 1500 has been estimated at 1—16 million.


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[11] The lowest estimate is that 750,000 lived in the territory of the present United States and plenty of 250,000 in Canada as well as Alaska.


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[12] Expeditions The first confirmed European sighting of an area belonging to the present-day United States is the invasion of Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to Puerto Rico on 19 November 1493.


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The first European settlement there was founded by Juan Ponce de León in 1508.


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Ponce de León arrived in Florida in 1513 [13] and was thus the first European to arrive on the U.S. mainland, although there are indications that John Cabot would have arrived in the territory of present-day New England in 1498.


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[14] [15] The Spanish and Portuguese focused on visiting only the southern parts of North America, but the English and French went further north.


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In 1524, Giovanni da Verrazzano, sent by the King of France, sailed the coast of North America from Georgia to New England.


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[16] The first permanent European settlement on the territory of the present-day United States was established by the Spanish in 1565 at St. Augustine in northeastern Florida.


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The Spanish also established their settlements in New Mexico and California.


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[17] Colony Time The first British settlement in the territory of the present-day United States was Roanoke in present-day North Carolina.


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Attempts were made to establish a colony there as early as 1585 and again in 1587, but by the time British ships arrived again on the site in 1590, the colony had disappeared.


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[18] In 1607, the British established the Jamestown Colony in present-day Virginia.


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By the mid-17th century, about 40,000 English colonists had already entered Virginia.


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The first slaves were imported no later than 1619.


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[19] Separatists from northern England, pilgrims, or 'pilgrims', who fled religious persecution aboard the Mayflower ship to Holland, landed in 1620 on the headland of what is now Cape Cod and established Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts as their colony.


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[20] Local Indians helped them survive the winter and the following summer, and the pilgrims celebrated the harvest festival of 1621 together with the Indians on the first Thanksgiving.


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Beginning in 1628—1629, Puritans who opposed the English state churches began to migrate to America, establishing their first colony in 1630.


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The Puritans developed their own system of government and began to establish small towns.


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Puritans have been considered to have had their influence on the emergence of American democracy as a whole, but on the other hand, their draconian regulations shackled freedom of thought and action.


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[21] French had settled in Canada and Dutch people who dominated the fur trade on the east coast.


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However, the English colonies received support from their mother lands and were therefore more vibrant than their rivals.


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The ambitions of the English government in North America were both economic and religious as vexed differentials such as Puritans and Quakers migrated to New England.


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The departures initially sought freedom of religion, but later arrivals also sought the conditions of a free and prosperous life that Europe was unable to give.


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[22] By 1740, a chain of thirteen British colonies had formed on the east coast of North America, from New Hampshire in the north to Georgia in the south.


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From the coast, 150 miles inland was populated territory; beyond it was land of Native Americans and French people.


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Florida belonged to Spain at the time and Canada belonged to France.


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England and France competed for North American domination for nearly two centuries.


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After the Great Colonial War of 1756—1763, at the Peace of Paris, France was forced to relinquish all its North American holdings, losing the territories east of the Mississippi and Canada to Britain.


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[22] As early as the 18th century, demographics in the British colonies showed distinctively American features.


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Population growth was rapid, and there were already about 2.5 million Americans around 1775.


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The average age of Americans was higher and the nutritional situation better than that of Europeans.


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Birth rates were high and population growth was also fuelled by migration.


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In 1775, already nearly one-third of Americans were non-English by descent.


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[22] In addition, between 400,000 and 500,000 slaves from Africa were imported into the territory of the present United States by 1770.


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Slaves existed in all the colonies.


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In the north, their position corresponded to that of white salaries, but on plantations in the South they lived subjugated to their owners.


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However, there were hardly any slave rebellions.


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[22] Anyway, most colonists belonged to the lower social classes without even considering forcibly imported black slaves.


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Probably half of the colonists and pretty much all those who came before the 1730s from outside England arrived in America under so-called “white slavery” in some form.


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They had sold themselves to captains of ships or “merchants of souls” against the price of an ocean voyage.


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The voyage was even more trying than on actual slave ships, with about a third perishing on the voyage.


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Those who made it to America became contract laborers whose terms of employment were stipulated in the so-called indenture.


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They were sold to employers or brokers at auctions held at ports.


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The length of the term of service ranged from four to seven years, sometimes longer.


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Many did not wait, but became fugitives, which were rife in the forests of the frontier region.


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Those who completed their period received as a reward a piece of land laid down in the treaty, often about 20 ha, which was much for Europe.


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Though the terms of the contract didn't always come to fruition.


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The contract worker system persisted even after independence, including George Washington purchasing them for his plantation.


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[18] From 1700 to 1760 the population of the thirteen colonies grew from about 2500 to over one and a half million — an immense number by the yardstick of its time and relative growth rate unique in world history.


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Perhaps even more astonishing, however, was the rapid separation of a few thousand leading families and the rapid growth of their wealth and power.


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Local government in America was based on an oligarchy, with prerequisites being the delimitation of suffrage only to holders of fairly large property, as well as the denial of the right of condolence to settlers.


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Entire new larger cities were left without delegates at meetings, or received only minimal representation.


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[18] The colonizers began to need their own social institutions.


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1636 established the first college in Massachusetts for the training of clergy.


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In 1638, John Harvard, by bequest, donated to the new educational institution a library and half of his farm.


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Since then, the first university in the United States has borne his name.


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Attention was also paid to lower levels of education.


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As early as 1624, an act was passed on education below the college level, but this proved ineffective.


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Five years later, after stating that “one of the most important means of that old misnomer Satan is to keep people ignorant of the scriptures”, the Massachusetts Legislature required each of the fifty municipalities of the economy to “at once appoint a teacher of reading and writing and to take care of his hiring”.


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In addition, each municipality of the hundred economy had to arrange the teaching of Latin for those intending to attend university.


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These statutes were also imitated in other New England settlements, except Rhode Island.


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Thus, in America, the first of the English-speaking countries, compulsory education was imposed.


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[18] Economic development The task of the Americans was to produce raw materials for the mother land as the English pursued North Atlantic commercial hegemony.


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In exchange, the Americans received British manufacture products.


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Pennsylvania was known as the “breadbasket”, and tobacco, rice, and indigo were obtained from other settlements.


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Shipping, fishing, and iron and textile industries had been concentrated in New England.


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In keeping with mercantilist doctrines, shipping and trade between the colonies and the mother country had been monopolized as exclusive to the Americans and the English, and foreign competition was forbidden.


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This placed certain obstacles to the development of the colonies' economic life, although it guaranteed a good market for American products.


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The Americans also engaged in bootlegging with the Spanish and French in the West Indian Islands.


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The basis of the economy of the colonies was agriculture and self-sufficient family plantations, farms.


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There was plenty of land on offer.


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[22] It was commerce that was a major prosperous industry in the settlements of 18th-century New England.


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Among the inhabitants of New England of Dutch and English origin, the Yankees, there were excellent seafarers.


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Typically, trade was on triangular routes with England at one tip.


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In fact, no other purchaser country had the luxury industrial goods that the American upper class wanted.


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Apart from legitimate trading, Yankee sailors did not shy away from undertaking even more morally dubious ventures.


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The most lucrative and least respectable of the triangular routes was the “slave triangle”, for whose traffic the mass production of agricultural products in the southern colonies meant much.


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Plus, the Yanks were ready for outright piracy too.


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The Peace of Utrecht of 1713 deprived captains of the legal right to plunder England's enemies, but in practice it meant only merchant ships of all countries falling prey.


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New York was, in fact, the open refuge of leading pirate chiefs and the port most favored by their crews.


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[18] The southern settlements of North America produced large quantities of monetary crops such as indigo, tobacco and cotton for the world market.


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This made moving to America attractive to members of the owning class who wanted to increase their fortunes by establishing a lucrative plantation.


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Northern settlements, on the other hand, attracted independent farmers with plenty of fertile farmland.


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The towns were still relatively small and cosy compared to London's filth.


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The shoreline was free and attractive, market life bustling, tacos a lot, beer and rum were plentiful and cheap.


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Working men's wages in cities were four or five times that of London.


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Craftsmen and small-time merchants could get such a good price for their products that they were able to amass small fortunes.


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Moving to America was an attractive undertaking for members of all social classes, and the journey was prepared for great sacrifices.


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[18] State Emergence The history of the United States state begins with the rebelling British colonies.


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The 13 stripes on the flag of the United States represent these states.


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England, indebted in the Seven Years' War, enacted a series of unpopular taxes and customs duties on the colonies from 1764.


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They were opposed by the colonists, who felt that Parliament had no right to impose taxes on the colonies, but only by the colonies' own assemblies (“No taxation without representation”).


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In protest to the tea tax, the so-called “Tax” was organized in 1773. The Boston Tea Party, where a pot of tea that arrived from mother land was thrown into the sea in Boston Harbor.


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In 1774, the First Continental Congress, which represented the settlements, stated in Philadelphia that governments' power extends only as far as subjects permitted, and that governments' power rests on the consent of the governed.


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The following year, the British Parliament considered Massachusetts to be in revolt and the settlements were decided to blockade.


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This ensued the American Revolutionary War.


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On June 15, 1775, the Second Continental Congress appointed George Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Army.


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The Americans had a shortage of equipment and Benjamin Franklin even thought of resorting to bow guns, but two days later recaptured Bunker Hill.


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The settlements declared independence on 4 July 1776 when the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.


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It had been drafted by a committee consisting of John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin.


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War luck was not always favored with the Americans, and the English refused to negotiate unless the Declaration of Independence was withdrawn.


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France joined the struggle for independence on the side of the colonies by concluding a treaty of alliance with Benjamin Franklin and sent Lafayette and Rochambeau with troops to America.


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At the same time, France received damages for the Seven Years' War.


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The English were beaten at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777.


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Britain recognized American independence on September 3, 1783.


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After this, around 700—80,000 loyal to Britain left the country.


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Of them, about 50,000 relocated to the British Canadian provinces.


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[23] The federally created United States Constitution was enacted in 1787 and George Washington was elected the first president in 1789.


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From its inception, the territory of the United States extended in the west well beyond the original thirteen settlements.


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A provision in 1787 formed these non-colonial territories into the Northwest Territory, later subdivided into new states.


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[24] 19th century: The kingdom grows and avoids disintegration War against Britain The United States declared war on Britain in 1812, as Britain had prevented American shipping.


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The British blockaded the US coast and burned the city of Washington.


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However, Britain had its hands full in Europe, so the war ended with a peace treaty in a draw in 1814.


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[25] The expansion of the 19th century was a time of rapid growth for the United States.


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New land was conquered and an endless stream of colonists arrived at East Coast ports.


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From 1803 to 1848, the area of the United States nearly tripled as settlers occupied the West.


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In 1860, there were 31500000 people living in the United States, 14500,000 of them belonged to the population increase of the last 20 years.


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Eni's part, maybe about 10 million, was non-slave states augmentation.


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Much went west to become new farmers, but cities also grew to unprecedented dimensions.


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By the time of entering the 1860s, New York had already crossed the million-strong border, other major cities included Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and New Orleans, the largest city in the South.


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Chicago deep inland had grown into a center of 110,000 residents.


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The Democratic Review wrote in 1852 that since the barbarians invaded Rome, “there has not been in the world its taxable migration which now arrives on the shores of the United States.


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[...] Time and again, we receive weekly troops of the size of the Gothic army in our society.” [18] The United States received the largest landing in its history when, in 1803, Thomas Jefferson's government purchased from Napoleon of France the Louisiana territory west of the Mississippi River.


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Territorial trade was significantly larger than the present state of Louisiana — the acquired territories now comprise 23% of the land area.


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In 1845, the United States was joined by Texas, which had become independent from Mexico in 1836.


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As a result of the war with Mexico, approximately the territories of the present-day states of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico were annexed by the United States in 1848 at the Peace of Guadeloupe Hidalgo on February 2, 1848.


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The Arizona and New Mexico Territory extended south of the Gila River with the 1853 trade of ten million then-U.S. dollars Gadsden with Mexico.


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On 9 April 1867, Emperor Alexander II of Russia sold Alaska to the United States.


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[18] Those then-still sparsely populated areas annexed to the United States by the Louisiana Territorial Trade and later the Peace Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo were not initially part of any state but were under federal control.


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It was not until decades later, when their population had greatly increased, that the present states were established in the area.


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It was only since 1912 that the entire continental territory of the United States had been divided into states, with the exception of Alaska, which was formed as a state in 1959.


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Rail construction towards the end of the 19th century saw increasing numbers of railroad lines built across extensive U.S. land.


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By 1860, $1.5 billion had been invested in them, an immense sum by the yardstick of that time, equivalent to 25% of all investments in the country.


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As early as 1840, the USA was by 4500 miles the world's leading country in the field, in the next decade that figure increased by 8000 kilometers.


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At first the railways mainly served the port cities of the East and the surrounding economic life, but really breathtaking growth began to be built with the construction of long lines across the continent.


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In the 1850s, an astonishing 31,000 kilometers of railroad were built.


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The first railroad to lead as far as the Pacific Coast was completed in 1869.


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However, construction of the lines lacked methodology, as it was done uncontrollably by rioting private track companies, who competed with each other on often parallel routes.


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No unified network arose, and the lines were often in as poor condition as the finances of the track companies.


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Along with the armoured ship and machine gun, the railroad was one of the factors that made the American Civil War the first “modern” war.


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[18] Slavery Beginning in the 16th century approximately half a million black Africans were transported to North America to work as slaves.


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The issue of the abolition of slavery was, for decades, one of the major internal disputes in the United States.


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In the northern states, slavery was outlawed shortly after the country gained independence, but slavery continued in the Southern states until the 1860s.


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There were calls for its continuation because it was feared the cotton industry would otherwise be crippled.


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In those western frontier regions that at the time were not yet part of any state, slavery was permitted under a law enacted in 1820 (the Missouri Compromise) only south of latitude 36° 30'.


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[26] Along the same latitude, the boundaries of the new states established in the region later came to pass.


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Indigenous peoples Between 1837 and 1839, tens of thousands of Native Americans were forcibly displaced (such as, e.g., creeks and Cherokee) west of the Mississippi River, especially to present-day Oklahoma, which was then named Native American Territory.


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Treaties with the Indians were almost all forced to be broken, for, as one Congressional delegate wrote, “There is no force to stop the advance of our conquering people.” This inevitably led to skirmishes with Native Americans defending their hunting lands.


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In 1848, gold was discovered in California, and a major gold rush began for the area.


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The fate of the Native Americans in the area was disastrous, with several peoples wiped out to near extinction.


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[18] War of 1812 In 1812, a new war began against the former mother country Britain.


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Britain was the superior enemy, capable of operating without prejudice to U.S. land and sea areas, among other things, capturing Washington, D.C.


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Burning down the white house.


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However, the Brits had their hands full in Europe because of the Napoleonic Wars, so the war ended with a peace treaty in a draw.


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[18] The Civil War, along with slavery, became a major issue of contention for states' rights and the role of the federal government.


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The disputes escalated to such an extent that they led to the American Civil War of 1861—1865.


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The industrialized North defeated the agricultural-dominated South and thwarted an attempt at independence by the southern states.


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Following the victory of the Northern States, slavery was abolished throughout the United States and nearly four million slaves were freed.


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[27] The Civil War was a significant and traumatic event in the history of the country.


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After the Civil War, the industrialization of the United States took off after the Civil War.


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Migrants flowed into the United States, among other things, as a labour force for growing industry.


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In 1829, a “permanent Indian border” had been defined, the violation of which whites would be punished.


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According to it, the entire western half of the Mississippi would be Native American.


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Before the law could be enacted, there were settlers as far back as Iowa.


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Since violating the “permanent Indian border” was a daily occurrence, the government came up with an “obvious fate”.


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According to it, Europeans had “destiny” preordained to encompass America.


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Whites were, according to it, the “dominant race” responsible for the whole country.


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This led to President Johnson's refusal on March 27, 1866, to write the Civil Rights Act because of its ambiguity, but on April 1, Congress overruled the President and passed a law guaranteeing equal rights to everyone born in the United States except Native Americans.


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During the 19th century, the population of the United States grew sharply as a result of emigration, and the country was the world's most important recipient of colonists throughout that time.


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In 1800 the population was only five million, but in 1920 already 106 million.


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From the 1820s to the 1880s, entrants were predominantly Western Eroopans such as English, Irish, Germans and Scandinavians.


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At the end of the century, a large number of Italian and Eastern European emigrants began to enter the country.


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350,000 emigrants emigrated from Finland to the United States.


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The migrants were drawn to the United States especially by the good availability of agricultural land, job opportunities and political and religious freedom.


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[28] There were also some migrants to California from Japan and China.


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[29] Settlement and the Wild West Immigrants brought labor to the industry and created diverse communities in undeveloped areas of America.


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Immigrants were allowed to take over a certain size of land from their preferred “vacant place” for free.


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In the western United States, conflicts arose between white settlers and Native Americans, as well as small ranchers and large ranchers.


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Due to the limited law enforcement in the frontier region, disagreements and robberies became more common, and the concept of a “wild west” emerged.


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The period between 1860—1880 formed the period of which many Western films subsequently recounted: fur traders, mountain men, cavalry, steamers, gold diggers, Indians, settlers, outlaws, saloons, revolver heroes, cattle herders, and stagecoach.


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Driving Indians to Reservations The advent of Europeans still taxed Indians in the 17th and 18th century mainly due to diseases such as smallpox brought by Europeans, and the number of people killed in skirmishes was quite small.


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In 1830, a law was enacted on which the west side of the Mississippi River soon began to forcibly displace Native American tribes such as the Cherokee and Seminoles of the eastern part of the country.


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Native Americans were moved especially to Oklahoma, the “Indian Territory”.


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The gold discoveries in California in the 1840s caused Americans to begin migrating in large numbers westward, at which point Native Americans began to be moved there too from place to place.


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This ensued skirmishes and wars between several Native American tribes and the United States.


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The most famous of these is the Battle of the Little Bighorn, in which General Custer's troops were massacred by Indians to the last man.


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However, the Indians eventually fell into defeat and were driven to live on the reserves.


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The last to surrender was the Apache chief Geronimo in 1886.


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Native Americans were granted U.S. civil right eventually in 1924.


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[30] Gaining overseas territories In the mid-19th century, the great powers of Europe had expanded their trade rights in China.


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To benefit from it, the United States began advocating a so-called open-door policy, under which benefits received by some outside state in China would pass into those of all outside states.


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In the early decades of the 20th century, the volume of US trade to China grew sharply.


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Trade between the United States and Japan began to flourish in the 1870s.


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For trade across the ocean, as well as to obtain guano, the United States set up bases for itself on the Pacific islands.


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[31] The first Americans migrated to the Hawaiian Islands in the mid-19th century.


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The influence of the Americans in the islands grew, and in 1891 they overthrew the ruler of the Kingdom.


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The island group was officially made a U.S. part in 1898 and a state in 1959.


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The eastern part of Samoa was taken over by the United States in 1889.


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[32] The United States defeated the weakening Spanish Empire easily in the Spanish—American War of 1898, and in the Peace Treaty of Paris, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines passed to the United States.


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At the same time, Spain relinquished its power over Cuba, and the United States gained the right to continue to hold its troops on the independent island.


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The Philippines gained limited self-government in 1916 and independence in 1946.


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[33] Early 20th century, the United States had practiced in principle throughout the 19th century the Monroe Doctrine that the United States limited its foreign policy activities to the Western Hemisphere and prohibited European states from pursuing colonial policies in the Americas.


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[34] Once the westward expansion had been completed, eyes were directed to Latin America, where the United States began to apply its economic influence.


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President Theodore Roosevelt took over his land for the Panama Canal construction project in 1904.


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[35] During his presidency, Roosevelt also eroded the power of large corporations such as Standard Oil.


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[36] In World War I, the United States remained neutral in World War I at first.


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The scuttling of the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915 caused the deaths of over one hundred U.S.


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As a result, the United States sent notes to Germany and, on 24 June 1915, issued the first war loan to the Circum-Powers.


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[37] It joined the Circum-Powers in April 1917, three years after the start of the war.


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Part of the blame was the anti-submarine war initiated by Germany.


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The United States had also heard Germany was negotiating with Mexico over an attack on the United States.


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For historical and especially economic reasons, U.S. sympathies sided with the British and French, but for example, many Irish opposed joining the war.


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The U.S. contribution helped the circumpolar powers to victory.


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Economically, the country had been beholden to others until World War I, but thanks to the war, things turned the other way around.


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[35] As one of the “great winning states” of the war (the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy), the United States was able to negotiate the Peace of Versailles.


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The growth and prosperity of the 1920s Immediately after the war, alcohol prohibition law went into effect in the United States.


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The war was also followed initially by high inflation and a strong wave of strikes involving four million workers, especially coal mining and steel workers.


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Anarchists carried out spectacular bomb attacks, and small communist parties established in the country raised concerns about the danger of revolution, resulting in thousands of suspected communists being arrested and hundreds deported.


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[38] The black population of the United States left the South during World War I and moved to the industrial cities of the North, where demand for labor was high.


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Opposed to blacks and Jews and rotten urban culture, the Ku Klux Klan grew stronger after a quiet life and grew by its peak year in 1925 to be nationwide and with five million members.


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Hundreds of Americans were killed in race riots as blacks set out to respond to the violence they faced with violence.


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[39] In the 1920 census, the number of urban population in the United States had for the first time overtaken that of rural populations.


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Major cities like New York and Chicago were boosted by emigration and migration from rural areas.


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West Coast Los Angeles and San Francisco also grew into big cities.


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[40] In the early years of the 1920s, the influx of emigrants came to a halt due to a new law that limited the annual number of migrants to 2% of the number in 1890.


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[41] The 1920s was a decade of prosperity and expansion in the United States.


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Investment was easily generated, technical progress was rapid, labor productivity increased by tens of percent, and national income doubled between 1914 and 1929.


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Particularly rapidly grew construction and automotive industries.


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On the other hand, the position of farmers deteriorated when there was an oversupply of agricultural products.