Israel-+AmandaA&Jonathan

**Language is the vocal sounds or words common to a partuicular nation or group of people. In Israel the main language is Hebrew. They have one other common language,that is Arabic. Isreal is very unique in language because no other country speaks Hebrew as amin language or a secondary language. To me this is a disadvantage because trading and other skills that include other countries will be difficult because no one else speaks there language. ( AA )**
 * Israel is on the border of many bodies of water. To the west and north west is the Meditereanian Sea, to the east is is the dead sea. On the southern tip it is connected to the Gulf of Aqaba. On the south west, there is Egypt. To the north an north-east israel borders Syria and Lebanon. To the west, it borders Jordon. In Israel there is the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip. There are 8,473 square miles of land. In total there are about 7.1 million people living there. Israel is very unique. ( AA )**



**Literacy is the ability to read and write effectivly. Israel is the most literate country in the Middle East. About 98% of men in Israel are literate and 96% of the women are literate also. Israel has the smallest gap between the percents (%) of men and wmen who are literate. There is about 2% differenc. This is saying that woman must have many more rights in Israel than they do in any other countries.( AA )**



Literacy in Israel." (Illustration by XNR Productions/Cengage Learning, Gale.) //The Blackbirch Kid's Visual Reference of the World//. Online Ed. Blackbirch Press, 2009. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

**Urbanization is is the percent (%) of industrialized areas (cities) in a country. Israel is the third most urbanized country in the middle east. Israel is 90% urbanixed. This os pretty good compared to some countries such as Yemen. Yemen has 32% urbanized land. ( AA )**



Gross of domestic product or GDP is the amount of good and product per person in a country.Israel’s GDP is the second highest in theMiddle Eastand its GDP is 26,600. Though the GDP is 26,600 that don’t mean that every person gets 26,600 dollars per year exactly this is only an average. ( JW ) //Harvesting bananas in a kibbutz in Israel.//

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Oil wealth per capita is the amount of wealth from oil per person per year in one country.Israel’s oil wealth is one of the lowest with zero dollars per person per year. Just like GDP oil wealth is an average not an exact number.( JW ) //Tanker Pumps Oil from Exxon Valdez// . Prod. Corbis. Corbis, 2006. Discovery Education. Web. 27 March 2012. . Life expectancy is the average age people are expected to live to be. The life expectancy inIsrael is that people are expected to live to 81 years old. Life expectancy is an average not an exact number so obviously not every one will live to 81. ( JW )

"Bar Mitzvah in Israel." (Blackbirch Press Photo Bank) // The Blackbirch Kid's Almanac of Geography //. Blackbirch Press, 2000. Reproduced in Kids InfoBits. Detroit: Gale, 2012. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoBits

In most demographics Israel is at the top of the charts because it’s a generally more wealthier and healthy country but there are some exceptions for example they’re at the bottom of the charts for oil wealth. This shows thatIsrael is not a perfect country.( JW )

Comments: I noticed that there were many little spelling mistakes or you connected a few words, so I would suggest to revise carefully so you can catch those mistakes. I would like to know more about how the oil wealth compares to the other country's. I clearly understood the definitions of all the words, and I can understand how you made your opinions. I agree with a lot of them. Yes, the authors use the visuals, font, space, size, and colors effectively to deliver their message. There pictures really relate to their writing and helps us understand their ideas better. The font and size is very easy to read, and it is spaced nicely. The pictures do not cut of any writing. The colors make it easy to see who wrote what. I thought that the literacy picture is the most effective. It helps you understand very well that Israel is very literate, 97.1%. No. I think all the pictures are very effective.

comments: I noticed that in the introduction paragraph that you repeat yourself. You say that your counrtry borders a body of water. Then you said the west and north west is the Meditereanian Sea.Also I challenge the writer to add the numbers of percent of the demographics in Israel. I undertood that you had some improper words such as don't instead of doesn't. I would suggest that you check the spacing between some of your words. I can read the words with the color the author chose. The font choice was nice and clear and the spacing between each line was easy to read. The picture I found to be most effective was the one where the man was harvesting fruit in the kabbutz. It clearly showed GDP. The one picture that could be improved is the one that shows where Israel is. It is hard to see exactly where it is instead of showing the country all by itself.

I noticed that you explaned what all of the words that you used means. I would like to know more about the literacy. I understood all of your topics. I your body paraghrph you could of add more information about langue, literacy, and urbenizeation. Also i like how you gave your pictures a hiding at the top. Also i like how you followed all of the requierments. I would suggestn that you add a little more detail to language, literacy, and urbanization. I think that you didf a very nice job on your wiki. All you need to do next time is to add more informatyion to your topics.I.L

Wiki Feedback:After recieving peer feedbackon my rough draft and Wiki, i made the following changes

1) Changed my reapeting and spacing mistakes in the Intro paragraph. 2)i Tried to add the most possible info to my body paragraphs. 3) All of the other comment either didnt have top do with my paragraphs or said they were fine.

From the feedback process i learned to re-read allmy work. -Amanda A.