total: 30
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 10
under 914 m: 6 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 23
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 20 (2006)

Heliports:
3 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 193 km; oil 442 km; refined products 261 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 853 km
standard gauge: 853 km 1.435-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 17,446 km
paved: 17,446 km (including 144 km of expressways) (2004)

Merchant marine:
total: 18 ships (1000 GRT or over) 716,382 GRT/845,053 DWT
by type: cargo 2, container 16
registered in other countries: 51 (Bahamas 1, Bermuda 3, Cyprus 3,
Honduras 1, Liberia 5, Malta 23, Panama 6, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines 2, Slovakia 7) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Ashdod, Elat (Eilat), Hadera, Haifa

Military Israel

Military branches:
Israel Defense Forces (IDF): Army Headquarters, Israel Navy,
Israeli Air and Space Force (ISAF, includes air defense forces);
historically there have been no separate Israeli military services
(2005)

Military service 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)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 17-49: 1,492,125
females age 17-49: 1,443,916 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 17-49: 1,255,902
females age 17-49: 1,212,394 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 53,760
females: 51,293 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$9.45 billion (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
7.7% (2005 est.)

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; Israel
continues construction of a "seam line" separation barrier along
parts of the Green Line and within the West Bank; Israel withdrew
its settlers and military from the Gaza Strip and from four
settlements in the West Bank in August 2005; Golan Heights is
Israeli-occupied (Lebanon claims the Shab'a Farms area of Golan
Heights); since 1948,