Whois & Analysis for touristisrael.com

The Negev (Tiberian vocalization: ') or Naqab (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.

The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop), in the north.

At its southern end is the Gulf of Aqaba and the resort city of Eilat.

It contains several development towns, including Dimona, Arad and Mitzpe Ramon, as well as a number of small Bedouin cities, including Rahat and Tel as-Sabi and Lakyah.

There are also several kibbutzim, including Revivim and Sde Boker; the latter became the home of Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, after his retirement from politics.

Tel Aviv-Yafo is a major city in Israel, located on the country's Mediterranean coastline.

It is the financial center and the technology hub of Israel, with a population of, making it Israel's second-largest city.

Tel Aviv is the largest city in the Gush Dan region of Israel.

Tel Aviv is also a focal point in the high-tech concentration known as the Silicon Wadi.

Jerusalem ('; '), is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea.

One of the oldest cities in the world, Jerusalem was named as "Urusalima" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets, probably meaning "City of Shalem" after a Canaanite deity, during the early Canaanite period (approximately 2400 BCE).

During the Israelite period, significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE (Iron Age II), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah.

It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

It has land borders with Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan on the east, the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west, respectively, and Egypt to the southwest.

The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area.

Israel's economy and technology center is Tel Aviv, while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem, although the state's sovereignty over Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized.

The Dead Sea (lit. Salt Sea), is a salt lake bordered by Jordan to the east and Israel and Palestine to the west.

Its surface and shores are below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land.

The Dead Sea is deep, the deepest hypersaline lake in the world.

With 34.2% salinity (in 2011), it is 9.6 times as salty as the ocean, and one of the world's saltiest bodies of water.

This salinity makes for a harsh environment in which plants and animals cannot flourish, hence its name.

The Dead Sea is long and wide at its widest point.

It lies in the Jordan Rift Valley and its main tributary is the Jordan River.