ID Terms
This attack, prompted by Egypt and other Arab nations, resulted in massive territorial gains for Israel including the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.
What is the 1967 Six-Day War?
This body of water borders Israel.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the name for the eastern Mediterranean region from western Greece to western Egypt.
What is the Levant?
This person, who later became Israel's first prime minister, stated that “We shall fight with Great Britain in this war as if there was no White Paper and we shall fight the White Paper as if there was no war.”
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
This religion was the majority religion in the Ottoman Empire.
What is Islam?
This is the movement of Jews- first in 1881 in response to autoemancipation. The second started in response to Zionism and went to Palestine.
What is an Aliyah?
These countries border Israel (Name at least 1)
What are Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon?
This is an Islamic shrine that would have to be torn down to build the Third Jewish Temple.
What is the Dome of the Rock?
This person wrote The Jewish State and created the idea of Zionism.
Who is Theodore Herzl?
All 3 of these religions were equal in the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Abrahamic religions?
Jews who lived outside of the land of Palestine have been exiled and forced to spread out throughout history. Because they were dispersed outside of their homeland, they were called this.
What is the Jewish Diaspora?
Name Israel's disputed territories.
What are the Gaza Strip and the West Bank?
This is the name of site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
What is the Temple Mount?
This person was the leader of the Great Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Who is Sharif Hussein?
These people were considered the "People of the Book" by Muslims.
Who are Christians and Jews?
This is the word used to describe Palestinian Arab uprisings against the Israeli occupation.
What are Intifadas?
Israel claimed these areas after the Six Day War. (Name at least 1)
What are the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula?
This is the last remnant of the Second Jewish Temple and the holiest site in all of Israel for Jews.
What is the Western Wall?
This person argued for Autoemancipation; was less impactful than Herzl and Zionism
Who is Leo Pinsker?
The Ottoman Empire make the "fateful" decision to ally with this country during the First World War.
What is Germany?
This was the distinction between the Jews that were already in Palestine (those that never really left; the "old") versus those who moved there as a result of Zionism ("New")
What is Yishuv?
What is Egypt?
This disputed territory of Israel is controlled by Hamas, a Palestinian political party and militia group.
What is the Gaza Strip?
This person was a British soldier sent to encourage Arabia to declare independence from the Ottomans
Who is T.E. Lawrence?
The Sykes-Picot agreement did this to the land once occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
What is "divided up the land into European spheres of influence"?