Israel

The State of Israel (Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל‎; Arabic: إِسْرَائِيل‎), commonly known as Israel, is a country on the Eastern Mediterranean coast of Middle East and the northern shore of the Red Sea. The capital and largest city is Jerusalem.

Statistics
The land area of Israel is 21,497 km2. As of 2020, the population is estimated to be 8,675,475, including the Golan Heights, making it the 98th most populous country in the world.

Apple in Israel
Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies Johny Srouji, who joined Apple Inc. in 2008, is from the coastal city of Haifa, where the company maintains an office.

In January 2012, Apple acquired Israeli firm Anobit to bring fabless flash memory design into the company. In November 2013, Apple confirmed that it was acquiring PrimeSense, an Israeli 3D sensor design company that developed Kinect for Microsoft.



Apple leased a site in Herzliya for its new Israeli headquarters. The research and development center was inaugurated in February 2015 and became Apple's second largest facility in the world.

Apple has not yet opened a retail store in Israel as its most recent negotiations with the developer of the Azrieli Sarona Tower in Tel Aviv broke down in 2019 over terms.