State of Israel

The State of Israel is the modern government of a geographic area of Biblical origins, established as a country in 1948 by a United Nations resolution that partitioned the British Mandate of Palestine, and obtained disputed territorial gains in several wars, especially the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It is a Western-oriented parliamentary democracy, identified as a Jewish state under the political philosophy of Zionism.

Its current government is headed by Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu; President of Israel Shimon Peres is head of state. Netanyahu's coalition is centered on his Likud party.