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| Israel |
Israel is a country on the continent of Asia. It is in an area of the world called the Middle East. Israel lies along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Two of its neighbors are Jordan and Lebanon. The land along the sea coast is good for growing crops. Much of Israel is desert, though. People in Israel speak mostly Hebrew and Arabic. Hebrew is the ancient language of the Jewish people, and the majority of the people in Israel are Jewish. Israel's population also includes many Arabs, who speak Arabic. |
| majority |
If a majority of people in a country live in cities, then most of them live in cities. If you win the majority of votes, you win more than half of all the votes, or you win more votes than anybody else. The majority of something is more than half of it, or the largest amount of that thing compared with other amounts of it. [2 definitions] |
| most |
the majority of. [2/7 definitions] |
| persecution |
the act of continually treating others in a cruel way because of race, religion, politics, or some other difference from oneself or from the majority within a society; or the condition of being treated in this way. |
| strike |
When the majority of workers at a certain factory, or within a certain industry, stop working and refuse to go back to work, it's called a strike. A strike can occur when workers are very unhappy about their level of pay or about their working conditions or both. A strike will continue until the workers get something they want or until they are forced to give up their demands and just go back to work. [1/13 definitions] |
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