Israel learning maps — prepared 19 October 2026

Districts
geoBoundaries gbOpen ISR ADM1, boundary ID ISR-ADM1-19161824.
Six units; reference year 2006; build 12 December 2023; public domain.
Metadata: https://www.geoboundaries.org/api/current/gbOpen/ISR/ADM1/
Pinned source: https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/raw/9469f09/releaseData/gbOpen/ISR/ADM1/geoBoundaries-ISR-ADM1.geojson
Source attribution in metadata: geoBoundaries, Wikimedia.
Original geometry and metadata are retained in scripts/israel-admin-*.
District names are shortened for display; ISO codes are retained.

Territorial scope
The six reference shapes exclude the West Bank, including East Jerusalem,
Gaza and the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The Jerusalem city pin marks West
Jerusalem. District geometry is dated, generalised reference data, not the
full administrative extent claimed by Israel, a boundary survey, a depiction
of current control, or a resolution of Jerusalem’s disputed status.
UN context: https://www.un.org/unispal/history/
UNESCO Jerusalem property: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/148/

Cities
Twenty curated representative city/town centres, longitude then latitude in
WGS84. Checked against the six district reference shapes. These are learning
pins, not entrances, municipal boundaries, population rankings or safe routes.
Names include common variants: Tel Aviv–Yafo / Tel Aviv / Jaffa; Acre / Akko;
Safed / Tzfat; Beersheba / Be’er Sheva. Jerusalem’s pin is in West Jerusalem.

Waters
Natural Earth 5.1.2, 1:10m lakes and rivers/lake centrelines, public domain.
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_lakes.geojson
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines.geojson
The selected source features are retained in scripts/israel-water-source.geojson.
Both source Dead Sea basin polygons are retained. The southern basin has been
heavily modified for industrial use. These outlines are not current shorelines.
Sea of Galilee and Dead Sea outlines show complete geographic reference lakes;
they do not describe sovereignty over shared waters or surrounding land.
The Jordan target is a selected lower reach clipped to 35.45–35.66 E and
31.77–32.71 N. Upper reaches and lake-centreline segments are excluded.
This selection is not a complete hydrographic inventory or navigation chart.

Reproduction
node scripts/build-israel-maps.mjs
Inputs: public/data/israel-map-places.json, scripts/israel-admin-source.geojson,
scripts/israel-water-source.geojson.
Outputs: public/israel-{districts,cities,waters}.geojson,
src/lib/atlas/il.ts and src/lib/atlas/israel-places.ts.