| Question | Answer |
| first Prime minister of Israel | David Ben-Gurion |
| part of PLO and Palestinian leader | Yassir Arafat |
| (1993) under these, Israel and PLO agreed to recognize each other | Anwar Sadat |
| a celebration when a boy becomes a Jewish adult | bar mitzvah |
| the language of the Arab people | arabic |
| the language of the Jewish people | hebrew |
| 2 million (poor) Palestinians (refugees) lived here | Gaza Strip |
| occupied territory by Palestinians | West Bank |
| land seized by Israel (in 1967 War) | occupied territories |
| a sacred wall where people can write notes/wishes and put them in the wall for God to read | Western Wall |
| Palestine riots (acts of terrorism against Jews), "uprisings" | Intifada 1 and 2 |
| Islamic shrine in Jerusalem | Dome of the Rock |
| Holy, Jewish temple | Temple Mount |
| separates Israel from Gaza Strip, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights | Green Line |
| Israel starts war to gain territories (Gaza Strip, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights) | 1967 War |
| Israel, France, and Britain attack Egypt | 1956 Israeli War |
| a fence that stopped refugees from coming through Israel | security fence |
| the people trying to pass through to an area would have to go through these for safety purposes | checkpoints |
| Israeli Defense Forces, these run the checkpoints | IDF |
| supposed to be temporary homes for runaways | refugee camps |
| people who fled their homeland of Palestine to seek safety elsewhere | Palestinian refugees |
| means "the catastrophe" which is the Palestinian name for the 1948 war of Independence | Al Nakbar |
| 500,000 Arabs fled or were driven out of Palestine, some call this "the catastrophe" | 1948 War of Independence |
| decided where Palestine would be divided into a Jewish state and Arab state | 1947 UN Partition Plan |
| Nazi genocide against Jews during WWII | Holocaust |
| movement among European Jews to set up a Jewish homeland in Palestine | Zionism |
| organized acts of violence against Jews | pogroms |
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