Israel

Railways:
total: 640 km
standard gauge: 640 km 1.435-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 16,281 km
paved: 16,281 km (including 56 km of expressways)
unpaved: NA (2000)

Pipelines:
gas 140 km; oil 1,509 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Ashdod, Ashqelon, Elat (Eilat), Hadera, Haifa, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Merchant marine:
total: 18 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 752,873 GRT/881,711 DWT
by type: container 18
registered in other countries: 40 (2004 est.)

Airports:
51 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 28
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 4 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 23
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 20 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
3 (2003 est.)

Military Israel

Military branches:
Israel Defense Forces (IDF): Ground Corps (including Pioneer
Fighting Youth (Nahal)), Navy, Air Force(including Air Defense
Forces); note - historically there have been no separate Israeli
military services

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
17 years of age for compulsory (Jews, Druzes) and voluntary
(Christians, Muslims, Circassians) military service; both sexes are
eligible for military service; conscript service obligation - 36
months for men, 21 months for women (2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 1,581,883
females age 15-49: 1,532,234 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,294,742
females age 15-49: 1,250,969 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 51,054
females: 53,515 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$9.11 billion (FY03)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
8.7% (FY02)

Transnational Issues Israel

Disputes - international:
West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status
subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement - permanent
status to be determined through further negotiation; Golan Heights
is Israeli-occupied (Lebanon claims the Shab'a Farms area of Golan
Heights)

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 276,000 (Arab villagers displaced from homes in northern
Israel) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
increasingly concerned about cocaine and heroin abuse; drugs arrive
in country from Lebanon and, increasingly, from Jordan;
money-la