Google: Israel Has No Cities or Roads

by Eric on May 13, 2008

I was looking for a map of Israel to work on my City Focus Israel series, and I decided to use Google maps to find a city of the day.

Apparently there are no cities in Israel. I adjusted the map for zoom and type, and thought, this is strange. I zoomed out so I could see Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan. They have cities and roads. Strange.

I took a screenshot, below, and hope Google will fix this. If you know anyone who works at Google, please let them know that there are, in fact, cities and roads in Israel. I have been on several highways and roads there personally. I also lived in a city there and visited friends and family in a handful of others. I am happy to give them a verified list of cities and roads in Israel that really exist if they are worried about verifiability.

About the author

Eric Eric is the founder and editor of IsraelSituation.com. He has been to Israel many times including a semester at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the former president of the Israel advocacy group at the University of Colorado and teaches about Israel and the Media at a local religious school.

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  • Matt Larson

    though not nearly as fun as G maps, looks like Yahoo maps has your cities + satellite

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