Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, situated in the region of Western Asia, on the south-eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Wikipedia

Hawaii is the most recent of the 50 U.S. states and joined the Union on August 21, 1959. It is the only U.S. state located in Oceania and the only one made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean. Wikipedia