State · 1948 – present

Israel

A state of 1948 – present — 78 years, still standing in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Israeli Military Governorate and Mandatory Palestine. The atlas records 202 things within it — wars and battles 58 · unrest and atrocity 38 · famine and plague 1 · treaties 4 · people 101. Its line of rulers holds 16 people.

Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 78 years; and still standing
Rulers: 16; the President of Israel
Most ground: 90,500 km²; in 1967
Within it: 202; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Israel in 1967, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Israel in 1967, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 90,500 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Israel in 1967, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Israel in 2014, last mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Israeli Military Governorate · replaces · 1967 – 1982
Mandatory Palestine · replaces

Rulers

The line of President of Israel - the office this state names as its head of state.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
David Ben-Gurion	1948 – 1948	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Chaim Weizmann	1949 – 1952	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Yosef Sprinzak	1952 – 1952	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi	1952 – 1963	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Kadish Luz	1963 – 1963	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Zalman Shazar	1963 – 1973	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ephraim Katzir	1973 – 1978	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Yitzhak Navon	1978 – 1983	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Chaim Herzog	1983 – 1993	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ezer Weizman	1993 – 2000	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Avraham Burg	2000 – 2000	under a year	ending not on record
Moshe Katsav	2000 – 2007	7 years	resignedWikidata's end cause on the term
Dalia Itzik	2007 – 2007	under a year	ending not on record
Shimon Peres	2007 – 2014	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Reuven Rivlin	2014 – 2021	7 years	served out the term, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Isaac Herzog	2021 – in office	in office since 2021	resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article

16 rulers, 16 with terms dated as terms, covering 1948 – 2021. Median reign 5 years. 0 of 15 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.93, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Heads of government

The line of Prime Minister of Israel, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.

David Ben-Gurion	1948 – 1954
Moshe Sharett	1954 – 1955
David Ben-Gurion	1955 – 1963
Levi Eshkol	1963 – 1969
Yigal Allon	1969 – 1969
Golda Meir	1969 – 1974
Yitzhak Rabin	1974 – 1977
Menachem Begin	1977 – 1983
Shimon Peres	1977 – 1977
Yitzhak Shamir	1983 – 1984
Shimon Peres	1984 – 1986
Yitzhak Shamir	1986 – 1992
Yitzhak Rabin	1992 – 1995
Shimon Peres	1995 – 1996
Benjamin Netanyahu	1996 – 1999
Ehud Barak	1999 – 2001
Ariel Sharon	2001 – 2006
Ehud Olmert	2006 – 2009
Benjamin Netanyahu	2009 – 2021
Naftali Bennett	2021 – 2022
Yair Lapid	2022 – 2022
Benjamin Netanyahu	2022 – …

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

22,900 km² in 1948, 28,700 km² in 2018; at its largest 90,500 km² in 1968. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, from 1948Flag of Israel · Public domain
coat of arms, from 1949Emblem of Israel · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 1999144 rows · 29 wars and battles · 17 risings, regime changes and massacres

Benjamin Netanyahu · politician · 1949 – present
Shimon Peres · ruler · 1923 – 2016
Gulf War · war · 1990 – 1991
Yuval Noah Harari · philosopher · 1976 – present
Naftali Bennett · politician · 1972 – present
Isaac Herzog · ruler · 1960 – present
Reuven Rivlin · ruler · 1939 – present
Yair Lapid · politician · 1963 – present

and 136 more in the atlas.

2000 – 209952 rows · 29 wars and battles · 21 risings, regime changes and massacres

2006 Lebanon War · war · 2006
2014 Gaza War · battle · 2014
October 7 attacks · battle · 2023
April 2024 Iranian strikes on Israel · battle · 2024
Second Intifada · unrest · 2000 – 2005
2021 Israel–Palestine crisis · unrest · 2021
2012 Gaza War · battle · 2012
Nova music festival massacre · atrocity · 2023

and 44 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood78 years
stood longer than 42% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held90,500 km²
held more ground at its peak than 43% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century13.0
had more wars on record per century than 100% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record16
has more rulers on record than 89% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 43 causes the record names and 0 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

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Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1938 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1967, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q801 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.