Names
David Ben-Gurion
This place was established in 1909 just outside of Jaffa and was hailed as the first Hebrew city.
Tel Aviv
In 2005, Israel removed its military presence and 8,000 Jewish settlers when it disengaged from this territory.
Gaza
The year 1994 saw Israel complete a peace deal with this Arab neighbor.
Jordan
This famous songwriter, known as the "first lady of Israeli song and poetry," wrote Yerushalayim Shel Zahav.
Naomi Shemer
She headed the Labor Party in the 1970s, but resigned after the Yom Kippur War.
Golda Meir
According to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, this part of Mandate Palestine/Eretz Israel was supposed to be governed by a "special international regime."
Controversially, Israel received the equivalent of $14 billion from this country, from the 1950s through 1987.
Germany
This historic peace agreement divided the West Bank into Areas A, B and C
Oslo Accords
This Yemenite-Israeli superstar icon shockingly died of AIDS in the year 2000, soon after voicing the role of Yocheved in the film "The Prince of Egypt."
Ofra Haza
Not a "weak-kneed Jew," he ordered Israel's strike against Iraq's secret nuclear reactor in 1981.
Menachem Begin
In 1979, Israel agreed to give up this territory in exchange for peace.
Sinai Peninsula
The Brooklyn-born physician Baruch Goldstein carried out a terror attack, massacring 29 Arab worshippers, at this holy site in 1994.
Ma'arat HaMachpela (Cave of the Patriarchs)
In 2000, Palestinian chairman Yasser Arafat launched this terror war against Israel, following his rejection of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's peace proposal.
Second Intifada
You might still see the image of this Shas party founder on Israeli posters and buses.
Rav Ovadia Yosef
He served as Israel's Chief of Staff (top military official) during the Six Day War.
Yitzhak Rabin
This country was the only Arab aggressor out of 5 countries NOT to sign an armistice agreement (official agreement to stop fighting) with Israel in 1949.
Iraq
This proposal was rejected in 1905, with the words, "The Zionist organisation stands firmly by the fundamental principle of the Basle program, namely: 'The establishment of a legally-secured, publicly recognized home for the Jewish people in Palestine…and it rejects either as an end or as a means all colonizing activity outside Palestine and its adjacent lands.'"
This military event saw Israel collude with Britain and France against Egypt.
The Sinai War (Suez Crisis)
Recently deceased, this actor famously depicted Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof" and was posthumously outed by his family as an occasional Mossad operative.
Chaim Topol
He was Herzl's main opponent within the Zionist camp, believing that the Jewish people's primary need was for Israel to be a center for cultural revival, but that most Jews would remain in the Diaspora.
Ahad Ha'am (Asher Ginsburg)
Today a mixed Jewish-Arab city, this was the site of a large Crusader fortress built by the Knights Templar in the 12th century.
Akko (Acre)
It was recommended by an investigative committee that Defense Minister Ariel Sharon resign, for bearing "indirect responsibility" for this massacre in Lebanon.
Sabra and Shatilla
This organization was founded in 1974 with the mission of establishing Jewish settlements in the territories captured during the Six Day War
Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful)
This was the title of the song that earned Israel its first Eurovision win in 1978.
Abanibi