Israel

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

Statistics
The land area of Israel is 21,497 km2. As of 2020, the population is estimated to be 8,675,475, including the, making it the 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, where the company maintains an office.

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



Apple leased a site in 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 in  broke down in 2019 over terms.