Israel

The country calling code for Israel is +972. Country calling codes identify the destination country when placing an international call. The international access prefix used to leave your originating country varies by telephone network. On mobile phones, the + symbol is generally used instead. After the country code, dial the local Israel number, dropping any leading zero used for domestic dialling.

Israel is assigned IL as its ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code and ISR as its alpha-3 code. Alpha-2 codes are the two-letter codes used in web addresses, currency pairs and shipping forms. Alpha-3 codes are the three-letter codes used in banking, aviation and international standards work. The internet country code top-level domain for Israel is .il. ISO country codes are standardized identifiers, but they can change when countries or territories undergo changes in international status or classification.

The official currency of Israel is the Israeli new shekel, with the ISO 4217 code ILS and the symbol ₪. Prices, salaries and official accounts inside Israel are quoted in ILS. Exchange rates move daily, so check a live rate before converting rather than relying on a figure you saw last week.

The primary time zone for Israel is +02:00, currently UTC+02:00. The clock reads from your own device, so it follows daylight saving rather than showing a fixed offset.

The capital of Israel is Jerusalem. Israel sits in Asia, specifically the Western Asia subregion. Its approximate centre point is 31.50000000, 34.75000000. Traffic in Israel drives on the right. Languages recorded for Israel: Hebrew (modern), Arabic.

Israel shares a land border with 4 countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syrian Arab Republic. Land borders are not the same as nearest countries: a country across a narrow strait can be closer than one you share a fence with. The nearby page ranks countries by straight-line distance instead.