This is true to an extent but also false. It can be an offgaurd pic or it can be a deep in mind pic.
<span>The Ring of Fire is a major area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur. In a 40,000 km horseshoe shape, it is associated with a nearly continuous series of oceanic trenches, volcanic arcs, and volcanic belts and/or plate movements. It has 452 volcanoes. The Ring of Fire is sometimes called the circum-Pacific belt.
source: wikapedia</span>
I would say that when two continental plates collide then it is common for mountains sometimes very high to be pushed up by the collision such as the Himalayas by the squeezing between the Indian sub-continent and China.
Israel is in the Region of <span>The Middle East</span>