Israel

Israel is a country located in the Levant region, and he's the only country to have a Jewish majority in his population. It is surrounded by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

He is slowly getting popular in the fandom, because of the amount of middle eastern countries getting popular.

32 countries do not recognize Israel, which some of those, want him dead, for what they describe as 'resistance'.

Appearance
Israel is often drawn as a soldier or an orthodox jew, wearing soldier clothes of his army IDF, or a black suit with a top hat, similar to UK's, often having a necklace of David's star, that has been passed down in Israel's father's family.

Israel's head is a cube/square, as a matching joke with Polandball, because of Jewish physics. If someone asks why Israel is a cube, the proper thing to do is respond with, in all caps: "JEWISH PHYSICS". Israel's head is supposed to represent Judaism, and every other Jewish majority country / city should have a cube or a square head.

With clothing, Israel is often drawn with a blue vest and a color neck shirt to represent his nerdy side, due to the technology that has developed in Israel. Hi hair is often drawn curly and brown, since alot of Jews are Curley haired brunets. He also is drawn with other Jewish attire such as a black coat outfit with Curley side hair to mimic the style in which Orthodox Jews dress in. Or, most notably, a Kippah.

Israel is also sometimes depicted as short, since the real country is very small and scawny.

Personality
Israel is known to be a strong, happy, intelligent yet controversial character, who sometimes, if you get to really know him, tries to be cheerful no matter what is the situation. Most of the time he is a paranoid man, due to the conflict: He is known in terms of personality for being the most moody country in comparison to all other democracies. He is prone to anger and easily tipped off if you test him. His hotheadedness often, at times, causes him to make aggressive and violent decisions in the conflict. He sleeps with a gun and has security all over his house. But when you really get to know him, He can also be seen as sweet and caring. Although, he isn't afraid to use force, but prefers peace. He can be savage, and is not a total 'owo boy'.

Interests
Israel is known to be the country that spends most of his time on social media and has a high interest in religion, mostly on Judaism as Israel is Jewish. He also likes inventing new things, and creating them. He also knows martial arts, specifically Judo and Krav Maga, an Israeli style of martial arts form. He knows how to fight very well, a reason why he was able to defeat the multiple Arab countries at the same time in war. Being surrounded by neighbors that wanna kill him, he quickly learned how to fight for himself, so though he is scrawny, he is also depicted as fit and athletic and at times muscular.

Other Symbols
The national tree of Israel is an Olive Tree, representing peace. The national sport is football (soccer). Israel also has a national dog, which is the Canaan Dog, and his national bird is a Hoopoe.

Flag Meaning
Israel's flag design is based off the talit, fringed garment made of white cloth with black or blue stripes, that is traditionally worn by Jews. David's star resembles the Jewish majority of the country.

Ancient times
(Author's note: Israel didn't experience anything from the Ancient times. It was his family, which I named.)

Jews used to have an independent Kingdom of Israel, also known as David's kingdom, divided tino a dozen oribes, which were conquered by Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece.

After a time, they became independent again, however split to the brothers Kingdom of Israel and Kingdom of Judah, who had Jerusalem. they both were conquered by SPQR.

at 66 AD Jews revolted against SPQR, which ended and failed at 73 AD, and expelled Jews from Judah, which was renamed to Palestina, by SPQR.

by 1500, it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

British Mandate
when the British Mandate conquered the Ottoman Empire, he promised to the Jews in 1920 that they will be independent, and can stay in their homeland.

Jews immigrated legally and bought land, which the native Arabs that lived there did not like, and the conflict began.

Due to the growing amount of anti-semetism and Nazis in Europe, Jews started immigrating to Mandate of Jewish Palestine in even larger number, which pissed off the Arabs, growing the conflict.

The Jews tried revolting against the British because they limited the amount of Jews allowed to immigrate, by committing acts of violence, known as terrorism even though the Jews warned the British.

The UK finally decided to leave the place to the UN, who in 1948 proposed to split the land to 50/50, which the Jews agreed to in open arms, and declared being an independent nation, at 14th of May, in Jerusalem.

- Israel was finally born.

Arab-Israeli Wars
When Jews started arriving in Israel something called the Nakba ‘means crisis in arabic’ happened.more than more than 700,000 Palestinians were expelled. Still today no apology or reparations have been made. B U T the native Arab who began calling himself 'Palestine' refused and the next day Israel was attacked by Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, and Jordan, supported by all the Arab league, starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the first war.

Against all the odds, the one day old Israel won and conquered all of the land except ohe West bank (conquered by Jordan) and Gaza (conquered by Egypt).

At 1967, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt tried conquering Israel but lost within six days, giving the war the name 'Six day war', which in that war Israel conquered all of the Sinai (which belonged to Egypt), and the Golan Heights (Which belonged to Syria).

In 1970, Palestine decided to attack Jordan, Israel and Lebanon.

In 1973, Israel is attacked again by Lebanon, Jordan, Syria and Egypt, where they lose again.

Israel gave the Sinai back to Egypt, in promise to peace, and signed peace with him, at 1979. Israel also signed peace with Jordan at 1944.

Modern Day
Israel is seen as an important ally to the Western World, as it is seen as a stronghold for democracy in a region of the world that has had issues maintaining such a government style.

Many African and Arab nations view the Israeli occupation of Palestine as illegitimate and harmful. Palestine is split to Gaza and West Bank, which one of them, Gaza, is controlled by a terrorist government, Hamas.

Israel proposed an independence deal for a Palestinian state in 2008, but Palestine saw the terms of the agreement as insufficient, and Palestinian leadership did not accept for the pursuit of independence with more suitable borders.

Israel is currently dealing with terrorist attacks from Hamas, and rockets fired at him almost daily.

Both Palestine and Israel gave up on trying to solve this conflict, but only to manage it.

Geography
Israel is a small country of 22,072 km but has a very diverse geography. In the south, there are hot desert conditions, but has snow capped mountains in the north.

Family

 * Jerusalem – Father- My father and capital! I love him, although he's pretty.. complexed.
 * First Kingdom of Israel / David's Kingdom – Grandfather- I never got to meet him. I was told by my father that he's a strong man, and that he always tried his best.
 * Second Kingdom of Israel – Uncle- I also never got to meet him. my father doesn't know a lot about him, though, as he grew up with David's, My grandpa.
 * Palestine – Very complicated brother (opinion on Enemies.)

Friends

 * USA – My best friend! gives me guns and helped me fight in many wars.
 * Jordan – Although we have fought many wars, we are good friends. We share gas and water, and I smoked with you while declaring peace. super cool. keep it up.
 * Germany – Thanks for paying me money. I forgive you for the Holocaust. But don't you dare do it again...
 * India – We both fight evil terrorism! Thank you for always being with me, I hope things will be better about Pakistan.
 * Most European countries support Israel.
 * Japan - Both risen from the ashes of war. keep moving forward.
 * Singapore - We are both small but help and admire each out a lot.
 * Philippines - Just don’t annoy me.
 * Egypt - you know Egypt while our relationship is still new and you still hate me... you are a good friend after all you agreed for the peace treaty
 * Albania - Mostly Albania would hide me from enemies

Enemies

 * Third Reich– Fuck you. Who's laughing now? I don't see you on a map anymore...
 * Palestine – Ugh, why do countries like him is my brother? Why cant you just recognize me and stop being a terrorist. I feel a bit guilty though...
 * Iran – Don't you dare nuke me...We used to be such good friends before you went all islamist, now you are the single most dangerous country try to kill me
 * Indonesia – Why support Palestine?! Why not me?!
 * Malaysia
 * Germany - Thanks so much for supporting me and making such progress from your father's past, You are a great ally in europe, all though anti-semitic attacks are slowly going up in your country.
 * Egypt - We had beef, infact, long long history of fighting and being enemies. But I guess ever since Camp David you have changed your views on me and hopefully we will continue being partners in the future.
 * Most other Arab countries- Why still traumatized by the Arab-Israeli war?! Why do you only recognize Palestine?! Yall just jealous I am the only democracy in the middle east.

Trivia
Jerusalem is a place that belongs to everyone and no one. It does not belong to any specific group because it belongs to all monotheists. Therefore, control over it should accept this simple reality, and those blinded by their current might should learn from history.
 * Israel is the only country in the world that has more trees today than it had 50 years ago
 * Israel has more museums per capita than any other country, including the world's only one underwater
 * Voicemail technology was developed in Israel
 * Israel is home to the world’s only theater company comprised entirely of deaf and blind actors.
 * Life expectancy in Israel is among the highest in the world at 82 years.
 * Coffee and cafés are so good in Israel that it’s the only country where Starbucks failed trying to break into the local market.
 * Despite the tough neighborhood they live in, numerous studies rank Israelis among the happiest people among Western nations
 * The Philippines and Myanmar was Israel's first friend in Asia and close trading partners during the ancient times.
 * They are mostly shipped with the Philippines.
 * Ethiopia was Israel's main and closest ally in the African continent, due to common political, religious and security interests. However, relations were severed between the years 1973 and 1989 when Ethiopia was known as Derg the communist state. Their relations seemed to be frustrated in 2019 due to protest of rights but eventually the complicated relations went back to normal in September of 2020.
 * Both Palestine and Israel wanted to end the conflict between them but rather find it difficult to cease.
 * Philippines was the first country to vote in favour of Israel at UN.
 * Top 3 buyers of Israel's arms are India, Azerbaija and Vietnam.
 * The Haifa was protected from the ottomans by Indian troops during WW2