The world's largest publisher Scholastic Inc. in the consumption of books for children have removed Israel's existence in their textbook maps .
A mother of one of the readers find when he failed to find the map of Megara Israel , a homeland for his son , reported the Times of Israel .
" I want to show my kids where we live in the Middle East , but I do not see Israel on the map , but the State of Palestine , " said Adina Golombek , a resident of Jerusalem who moved to Israel from Canada last year , the newspaper reported .
Book titled " Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt , " published by Scholastic Inc. , is an adventure story of Sister Thea , five teen-aged mice , which was invited to Egypt to participate in an archaeological dig .
Most of the story in the book takes place in the Middle East , the world map is shown at the beginning of the book . This explains modern Egypt and neighboring countries - all except Israel .
While Sudan , Libya , and Saudi Arabia can be seen in the right place , Israel is fully covered by Jordan with both countries equally red .
A senior vice president for corporate communications at Scholastic , Kyle Good, told the Times of Israel that his company is now trying to figure out whether " this will be corrected in future reprints ."
" The Geronimo Stilton series published in Italy and Scholastic Inc. to translate the books to audiences in the United States , " Good said in emailed comments .
" I am waiting for a response from the current editorial team reprint and whether it will be fixed . I will get back to you as soon as I have a response to them . " .
Publisher Scholastic Inc. was founded in Pennsylvania in 1920 , is the world's largest publishing company known for publishing educational materials for children , parents , schools and teachers .
Publisher It distributes children's books through her book club , teaching resources and a popular book fair held in North America in many schools as well as online .
The company also has exclusive publishing rights to the Harry Potter series in the United States .
This is not the first time Israel has not been found on the world map .
According to a recent study , 96 percent of Palestinian school textbooks do not mention Israel by name in their maps .
At the same time , 87 percent of Israeli school textbooks do not have a line between Israel and the Palestinians , or do not name it at all .
Another case similar to the disappearance of Israel from the map , involves Apple operating system and the long-awaited , iOS 7 , presented in September . Shortly after its release , it was revealed that a new world clock option on iOS 7 registered Jerusalem without a country
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