Crossword Clues

ACROSS

2    Romans held siege over this fortress

7    One of Israel's national languages

9    Studied in Wisconsin

11  The IDF in Hebrew

13  Right-Center party in Israel

16  Associated with Operation Moses

17  Israel's Olympic games

20 An uprising of fanatic Palestinian Arabs

21  Situated on the Mediterranean

22  Arab terrorist group

23  Israel before its independence

25  City of Jewish mysticism

27  Left-Center party in Israel

29  Hot and dry region of Israel

33  Yam Kineret

34  Belief in creation of a modern Jewish homeland

38  Home of the Bahai Temple

41  Herzl's Zionist book about israel

42  Bordering Syria

43  1956 Operation Magic Carpet saved Jews from:

44  1st Prime Minister of Israel

45  Israel's Nat'l Anthem

46  Jews from Arab lands

DOWN

1   Bordering Sinai Peninsula

3   Rabbi asssociated with Bar Kochba

4   Israeli food

5   Israel's Airline

6   Location of Hebrew University

8   Sacred place to Israelis

10  Sir Moses who financed Jewish settlements

12  One of Israel's national languages

14  Israel's secret police

15  Country controlling Israel before its independence

18  Israel's first President

19  Native Israeli

24  Jacob's name and the Jewish State

26  Israel's parliament

28  Shooping street in downtown Tel Aviv

30  1917 declaration re: Palestine's partition

31  Type of rural settlement

32  Israel's Holocaust Museum

35  Israeli currency

36  Politician & general in Israel

37  1967 conflict

39  Israel's state symbol

40  Assassinated Prime Minister in 1995