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• Regional: Middle East: Guides and Directories  (10)

BBC News - Country Profile: Israel and Palestinian Territories - - Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news.

CIA - The World Factbook: Israel - - Features map and brief descriptions of the geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues.

Columbia University Libraries - Middle East Studies: Israel - - Directory of categorized links from the WWW-VL.

Dolly - - English speakers community offering a directory of various services, apartments for rent, forum and emergency telephone numbers.

Gems in Israel - - A directory and regular e-zine giving information about places in Israel that a tourist wouldn't normally know about.

HaReshima - - Frequently updated list of Jewish and Israeli sites.

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Israel in Brief - - Find information about Israel's culture, education, government and society.

Kineret - - Israel web directory and guide, includes links to Israeli radio stations, news and media.

Kol Israel - - Links to Israeli web sites includes news and radio from Israel.

Maven - - Jewish and Israel directory with thousands of links.

NationMaster - Israel - - Profile includes information for various aspects of the country, with a special emphasis on statistics and rankings.

NU? - The JAFI Portal - - Web portal sponsored by the Jewish Agency.

UK Foreign Office - Country Profiles: Israel - - Overview of country's geography, history, politics, economy, international relations, travel and current affairs.

US Department of State - Israel - - Country portal offers a map and links to Background Notes, USAID page, the US embassy and the current ambassador, press releases, fact sheets, annual Human Rights Reports and other major reports including Country and Industry Market Reports.

US Library of Congress - Country Study: Israel - - December 1988 country profile provides information about its historical setting, society and environment, economy, government and politics, and national security.

US Library of Congress - Portals to the World: Israel - - Annotated directory of selected online resources.