| U.S. ally since '48 | 23 |
| U.N.-created land: Abbr. | 24 |
| U.N. member since 1948 | 22 |
| U.N. member since '49 | 25 |
| Tel Aviv's home: Abbr. | 26 |
| State founded in 1948 (abbr.) | 29 |
| Six-Day War victor: Abbr. | 25 |
| Sharon's land: Abbr. | 24 |
| Sabra's homeland: Abbr. | 27 |
| Sabra's home: Abbr. | 23 |
| Pres. Peres's nation | 24 |
| Place to spend shekels: Abbr. | 29 |
| Neighbor of Syr. and Eg. | 24 |
| Neighbor of Jordan: Abbr. | 25 |
| Neighbor of Egypt (Abbr.) | 25 |
| Nation since 1948: Abbr. | 24 |
| Nat. that turned 60 last year | 29 |
| Nat. ruled by a parliament | 26 |
| Nat. protected by Iron Dome | 27 |
| Mt. Tabor's land: abbr. | 27 |
| Mt. Carmel site: Abbr. | 22 |
| Mt. Carmel site (Abbr.) | 23 |
| Mt. Carmel locale, briefly | 26 |
| Mt. Carmel locale (Abbr.) | 25 |
| Mount Zion's land: Abbr. | 28 |
| Mount Carmel's loc. | 23 |
| Mideastern republic: Abbr. | 26 |
| Mideast country: Abbr. | 22 |
| Masada Natl. Pk. setting | 24 |
| Lydda's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Lebanon neighbor (abbr.) | 24 |
| Land on the Medit. Sea | 22 |
| Knesset's nation: Abbr. | 27 |
| Knesset's land: Abbr. | 25 |
| Knesset setting: Abbr. | 22 |
| Kibbutznik's home: Abbr. | 28 |
| Jerusalem's home: Abbr. | 27 |
| Jerusalem's home (abbr.) | 28 |
| Jaffa's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Its highest mtn. is Meron | 25 |
| It's on the Medit. | 22 |
| Ind. nation since 1948 | 22 |
| Home to Bar-Ilan Univ. | 22 |
| Home of the Knesset: Abbr. | 26 |
| Haifa's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Haifa's home (abbr.) | 24 |
| Haifa's country: Abbr. | 26 |
| Foe of Hezbollah: Abbr. | 23 |
| Eshkol's land: abbr. | 24 |
| Eshkol once led it: Abbr. | 25 |
| Ehud Olmert's nat. | 22 |
| Eastern Medit. country | 22 |
| Dayan's state: Abbr. | 24 |
| Dayan's land: Abbr. | 23 |
| Beersheba's land: Abbr. | 27 |
| Acre's setting: Abbr. | 25 |
| Acre's place: Abbr. | 23 |
| 1967 war participant: Abbr. | 27 |
| 1949 armistice locale: Abbr. | 28 |
| Six-Day War participant | 23 |
| Jerusalem's locale | 22 |
| UN member since '49 | 23 |
| Land of milk and honey | 22 |
| Jerusalem is its capital | 24 |
| Zionist's homeland | 22 |
| Where Jaffa oranges are grown | 29 |
| Netanyahu's nation | 22 |
| Its flag is blue and white | 26 |
| ___ Baline (Irving Berlin) | 26 |
| Yitzhak Rabin's land | 24 |
| Winner of the Yom Kippur War | 28 |
| Where to see a kibbutz | 22 |
| The Negev's nation | 22 |
| Result of a 1940s partition | 27 |
| Last word in the Torah | 22 |
| Knesset member's home | 25 |
| Jerusalem's milieu | 22 |
| Ancient Ephraimite's home | 29 |
| 1979 peace treaty country | 25 |
| Tel Avivan, for instance | 24 |
| Adam Sandler's Zohan | 24 |
| War of Attrition combatant | 26 |
| One of Begin's people | 25 |
| Nationality since 1948 | 22 |
| Like the Merkava battle tank | 28 |
| Like Bar-Ilan University | 24 |
| Labor Party member, maybe | 25 |
| Itzhak Perlman, for one | 23 |
| Hailing from Haifa, perhaps | 27 |
| Haaretz employee, probably | 26 |
| Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert | 25 |
| Evaluation by the Knesset | 25 |
| Six-Day War participants | 24 |
| Six-Day War combatants | 22 |
| Netanyahu's people | 22 |
| Ariel Sharon and Golda Meir | 27 |
| About four million people | 25 |
| Magazine number: Abbr. | 22 |
| Periodical output: Abbr. | 24 |
| DC Comics collectible: Abbr. | 28 |