Israel is 8.4 times larger than Cook County, Illinois.
Area: 20,770 km2 World Factbook
Population: 7,821,850 (July 2014) World Factbook
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
Area: 2,468 km2 calculated
Cook County is a county in the United States state of Illinois. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,194,675. Wikipedia