The main obsticles towrards Israel joinig are the size of the teritories still occupied mainly in the west bank and parts of the goaln height reigion Also their use of covert assination of terrorists would be incompatible with the human rigths convention and Isreals stance againt the International Criminal Court is another major obsticle Turkey may be 95 in asia but that 5 that is in europe makes it eligble for EU membership Cyprus Has been classified as Culturally a european country so was eligible to join on cultural grtounds Isreal is highly unlickley to ever join the EU as it is not classified as a european culture and is not in any part within europe