Geography
Religion
Achievements
Politics
Economics/Social Structure
100

This enclave governed by Hamas has been the main theater of the Israel-Hamas War.

Gaza

100

It's the official language of Israel.

Hebrew

100

The Camp David Accords were mediated by this U.S. President in 1979.

Jimmy Carter

100

He is the leader of Likud.

Benjamin Netanyahu

100

It's the foreign nation which primarily funds Hamas.

Iran

200

This section of Israel's largest city is part of the West Bank and was annexed by Israel.

East Jerusalem

200

Judaism, Christianity, Druze, and Islam are the most prominent members of this class of religions, named for a shared patriarch.

Abrahamic religions

200

Signed in 1993, this is the most significant peace agreement signed between Israelis and Palestinians.

Oslo Accords

200

Yahya Sinwar and Ismail Haniyeh were members of this organization.

Hamas

200

Since 1950, this controversial rule has encouraged diasporic Jews to settle in Israel

Law of Return

300

It's the year that the Palestinian territories came under Israeli control.

1967

300

It's the approximate percentage of Israel proper's population that is Jewish.

74%

300

In 2011, Israeli-born Natalie Portman received this prestigious award.

Oscar

300

Fatah currently governs this area.

The West Bank

300

Of the 12-14 million Palestinians worldwide, approx. this many live in historic refugee camps

2 million

400

Outside of Israel and the Palestinian territories -- it is the country with the largest Palestinian population.

Jordan
400

The vestiges of the Second Temple, Jews were banned from this holy site for 19 years.

The Western Wall

400

The Camp David Accords ended over three decades of on-and-off war between Egypt and Israel -- they most recently clashed in 1973, in a conflict named for this holiday.

Yom Kippur

400

Yasser Arafat was chairman of this group that signed the Oslo Accords in 1993.

The PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)

400

It's the Arabic word for the catastrophic mass displacement of Palestinians in 1948

Nakba

500

From the French for "rising", this word describes the region on the east coast of the Mediterranean.

Levant

500

This place of worship is said to be where Muhammad made his "Night Journey", and has been a recent flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Al-Aqsa Mosque

500

This Palestinian scholar and academic is best known for writing "Orientalism"

Edward Said

500

Hamas has governed Gaza since this year.

2007

500

It's the largest, and most secular, Jewish cultural group in Israel

Hilonim

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