what continent does israel belong to?
Asia
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 The international community , namely the United Nations General Assembly , considers East Jerusalem of which the Old City is part , to be " Occupied Palestinian Territory " . 

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 The Israelis and Palestinians have made peace , and the former occupied territories have been renamed " Unified Palestine " . Mexico is now known as " Aztlán " . Several countries are described as having revised borders due to the " dumping " of convicts into infected zones ; these convicts rose to command " powerful fiefdoms " that later became independent states . A so @-@ called " Pacific Continent " appears to encompass previously uninhabited islands as well as ships rendered immobile due to lack of fuel . For unknown reasons , the Saudi Royal Family destroyed the oil fields in Saudi Arabia . 

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 The Jews ( / dʒuːz / ; Hebrew : יְהוּדִים ISO 259 @-@ 3 Yehudim , Israeli pronunciation [ jehuˈdim ] ) , also known as the Jewish people , are an ethnoreligious group originating from the Israelites , or Hebrews , of the Ancient Near East . Jewish ethnicity , nationhood and religion are strongly interrelated , as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation , while its observance varies from strict observance to complete nonobservance . 

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 The worldwide Jewish population reached a peak of 16 @.@ 7 million prior to World War II , but approximately 6 million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust . Since then the population has slowly risen again , and as of 2015 was estimated at 14 @.@ 3 million by the Berman Jewish DataBank , or less than 0 @.@ 2 % of the total world population ( roughly one in every 514 people ) . According to the report , about 43 % of all Jews reside in Israel ( 6 @.@ 2 million ) , and 40 % in the United States ( 5 @.@ 7 million ) , with most of the remainder living in Europe ( 1 @.@ 4 million ) and Canada ( 0 @.@ 4 million ) . These numbers include all those who self @-@ identified as Jews in a socio @-@ demographic study or were identified as such by a respondent in the same household . The exact world Jewish population , however , is difficult to measure . In addition to issues with census methodology , disputes among proponents of halakhic , secular , political , and ancestral identification factors regarding who is a Jew may affect the figure considerably depending on the source . Israel is the only country where Jews form a majority of the population . The modern State of Israel was established as a Jewish state and defines itself as such in its Declaration of Independence and Basic Laws . Its Law of Return grants the right of citizenship to any Jew who requests it . 

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 Israel is the only country with a Jewish population that is consistently growing through natural population growth , although the Jewish populations of other countries , in Europe and North America , have recently increased through immigration . In the Diaspora , in almost every country the Jewish population in general is either declining or steady , but Orthodox and Haredi Jewish communities , whose members often shun birth control for religious reasons , have experienced rapid population growth . 
