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Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City . It is geographically adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn at the southwestern end of Long Island , and to Nassau County further east on Long Island ; in addition , Queens shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx . Coterminous with Queens County since 1899 , the borough of Queens is the second - largest in population ( after Brooklyn ), with a census - estimated 2 , 339 , 150 residents in 2015 , approximately 48 % of them foreign - born . Queens County also is the second - most populous county in the U . S . state of New York , behind the neighboring borough of Brooklyn , which is coterminous with Kings County . Queens is the fourth - most densely populated county among New York City ' s boroughs , as well as in the United States . If each of New York City ' s boroughs were an independent city , Queens also would be the nation ' s fourth most populous city , after ___MASK90___ , Chicago , and Brooklyn . Queens is the most ethnically diverse urban area in the world . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK41___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , ___MASK81___ are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Netanya ( lit ., " gift of God ") is a city in the Northern Central District of Israel , and is the capital of the surrounding Sharon plain . It is north of Tel Aviv , and south of Haifa , between the ' Poleg ' stream and Wingate Institute in the south and the ' Avichail ' stream in the north . Netanya was named in honor of Nathan Straus of Macy ' s , a prominent Jewish American merchant and philanthropist in the early 20th century . Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of ___MASK26___ , Christianity and Islam . Rebbe or , is a Yiddish word derived from the Hebrew word " rabbi ", which means " master , teacher , or mentor ". Like the title " rabbi " it refers to teachers of Torah or leaders of ___MASK26___ . In ___MASK26___ , a rabbi is a teacher of Torah . This title derives from the Hebrew word ' , meaning " My Master " ( irregular plural ' ), which is the way a student would address a master of Torah . The word " master " "" literally means " great one ". The Mediterranean Sea ( pronounced ) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean , surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land : on the north by Southern ___MASK75___ and Anatolia , on the south by North Africa , and on the east by the Levant . The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean , although it is usually identified as a separate body of water . The ___MASK25___ is a transcontinental region centered on Western ___MASK28___ and Egypt . The corresponding adjective is " Middle - Eastern " and the derived noun is " Middle - Easterner ". The term has come into wider usage as a replacement of the term Near East ( as opposed to Far East ) beginning in the early 20th century . Yiddish ( or , " yidish "/" idish ", " Jewish ", ; in older sources    -    " Yidish - Taitsh ", Judaeo - German ) is the historical language of the ___MASK56___ . It originated during the 9th century in Central Europe , providing the nascent Ashkenazi community with an extensive Germanic based vernacular fused with elements taken from Hebrew and Aramaic , as well as from Slavic languages and traces of Romance languages . Yiddish is written with a fully vocalized alphabet based on the Hebrew script . ___MASK26___ ( from , derived from Greek , originally from Hebrew , " Yehudah ", " Judah "; in Hebrew : , " Yahadut ", the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) encompasses the religion , philosophy , culture and way of life of the Jewish people . ___MASK26___ is an ancient monotheistic religion , with the Torah as its foundational text ( part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible ), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud . ___MASK26___ is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel . With between 14 . 5 and 17 . 4 million adherents worldwide , ___MASK26___ is the tenth - largest religion in the world . Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City , with a Census - estimated 2 , 636 , 735 residents in 2015 . It borders the borough of Queens at the southwestern end of Long Island . Since 1896 , Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County , the most populous county in the U . S . state of New York , and the second - most densely populated county in the United States , after the county of New York ( which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan ). Egypt (; ', , " Kimi "), officially the ___MASK58___ Republic of Egypt , is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of ___MASK28___ by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula . Egypt is a Mediterranean country bordered by the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast , the Gulf of Aqaba to the east , the Red Sea to the east and south , Sudan to the south , and Libya to the west . Across the Gulf of Aqaba lies Jordan , and across from the Sinai Peninsula lies ___MASK89___ , although Jordan and ___MASK89___ do not share a land border with Egypt . It is the world ' s only contiguous Afrasian nation . ___MASK64___ , officially known as the Lebanese Republic , is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south , while Cyprus is west across the Mediterranean Sea . ___MASK64___ ' s location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland facilitated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity . At just 10 , 452 km ( 4 , 036 sq . mi .), it is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian continent . Syria , officially known as the Syrian ___MASK58___ Republic (""), is a country in Western ___MASK28___ , bordering ___MASK64___ and the Mediterranean Sea to the west , Turkey to the north , Iraq to the east , Jordan to the south , and Israel to the southwest . Syria ' s capital and largest city is Damascus . Halberstam became one of the youngest rebbes in ___MASK75___ , leading thousands of followers in the town of Klausenburg , Romania , before World War II . His wife , eleven children and most of his followers were murdered by the Nazis while he was incarcerated in several concentration camps . After the war , he moved to the United States and later to Israel , rebuilt Jewish communal life in the displaced persons camps of Western ___MASK75___ , re - established his dynasty in the United States and Israel , founded a Haredi neighborhood in Israel and a Sanz community in the United States , established a hospital in Israel run according to Jewish law , and rebuilt his own family with a second marriage and the birth of seven more children . Zvi Elimelech Halberstam ( born 1952 ) is the present Sanz - Klausenburger Rebbe of Netanya , Israel . He is also known as the Sanzer Rebbe . He is the eldest son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam , the first Sanz - Klausenberger Rebbe , who in his will divided the leadership of the Klausenburger Hasidim between his two sons , Rabbi Zvi Elimelech and Rabbi Shmuel Dovid ( the present Sanz - Klausenburger Rebbe of Brooklyn ) . He holds his court in the Kiryat Sanz , Netanya neighborhood founded by his father . The West Bank ("" " HaGadah HaMa ' aravit ") is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western ___MASK28___ , forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories . The West Bank shares boundaries ( demarcated by the Jordanian - Israeli armistice of 1949 ) to the west , north , and south with Israel , and to the east , across the Jordan River , with Jordan . The West Bank also contains a significant section of the western Dead Sea shore . The Red Sea ( also the Erythraean Sea ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and ___MASK28___ . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of Suez ( leading to the Suez Canal ). The Red Sea is a Global 200 ecoregion . The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley . Jordan ('), officially The ___MASK40___ Kingdom of Jordan ('), is an ___MASK58___ kingdom in Western ___MASK28___ , on the East Bank of the Jordan River . Jordan is bordered by ___MASK89___ to the east and south , Iraq to the north - east , Syria to the north , Israel , Palestine and the Dead Sea to the west and the Red Sea in its extreme south - west . Jordan is strategically located at the crossroads of ___MASK28___ , Africa and Europe . The capital , Amman , is Jordan ' s most populous city as well as the country ' s economic , political and cultural centre . Israel , officially known as the State of Israel , is a country in the ___MASK25___ , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea . It has land borders with ___MASK64___ to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . Israel ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized .