1949 armistice locale: Abbr., 3 letters
1967 war participant: Abbr., 3 letters
Acre's locale: Abbr., 3 letters
Acre's place: Abbr., 3 letters
Acre's setting: Abbr., 3 letters
Ahab's kingdom: Abbr., 3 letters
Arabic is one of its two official langs., 3 letters
Barak's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Begin's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Big exporter of diamonds: Abbr., 3 letters
Camp David Accords signer: Abbr., 3 letters
Country behind the Stuxnet computer virus: Abbr., 3 letters
Country est. in 1948, 3 letters
Country on the Med., 3 letters
Country recognized by the U.S. eleven minutes after it was founded, 3 letters
Country whose national anthem's title means The Hope: Abbr., 3 letters
Country with a blue and white flag: Abbr., 3 letters
Dayan's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Egypt neighbor (Abbr.), 3 letters
El Al destination: Abbr., 3 letters
El Al's primary destination (Abbr.), 3 letters
Eshkol once led it: Abbr., 3 letters
Eshkol's land: abbr., 3 letters
Fertile Crescent land: abbr., 3 letters
Foe of Hezbollah: Abbr., 3 letters
Frequent negotiator with the P.L.O., 3 letters
Haifa locale: abbr., 3 letters
Haifa's country (abbr.), 3 letters
Haifa's homeland (abbr.), 3 letters
Haifa's land (abbr.), 3 letters
Herzog's home (abbr.), 3 letters
Home of the Ramon Crater: Abbr., 3 letters
Hula Valley land: Abbr., 3 letters
Ind. nation since '48, 3 letters
It has more museums per capita than any other country: Abbr., 3 letters
It touches the River Jordan: Abbr., 3 letters
It's 56 years old: abbr., 3 letters
Its anthem is Hatikvah (abbr.), 3 letters
Its cap. is Jerusalem, 3 letters
Its flag features a six-pointed star: Abbr., 3 letters
Its highest mtn. is Meron, 3 letters
Its natl. anthem is Hatikvah, 3 letters
Jaffa's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Jerusalem is its cap., 3 letters
Jerusalem is its capital: Abbr., 3 letters
Jerusalem's country: Abbr., 3 letters
Jerusalem's home (abbr.), 3 letters
Jerusalem's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Jordan neighbor (abbr.), 3 letters
Kibbutznik's home: Abbr., 3 letters
Knesset setting: Abbr., 3 letters
Knesset's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Land bordering the Dead Sea: Abbr., 3 letters
Land of Acre: Abbr., 3 letters
Land on the Medit. Sea, 3 letters
Land that's around 16% Muslim: Abbr., 3 letters
Land that's largely desert: Abbr., 3 letters
Leb. neighbor, for short(z), 3 letters
Lebanon neighbor (abbr.), 3 letters
Levantine land: Abbr., 3 letters
Livni and Netanyahu's nation: Abbr., 3 letters
Location of Technion Univ., 3 letters
Maccabiah Games setting: Abbr., 3 letters
Masada Natl. Pk. setting, 3 letters
Mideast land since 1948: Abbr., 3 letters
Mideast land: abbr., 3 letters
Mideast nation: Abbr., 3 letters
Modern site of ancient Caesarea: Abbr., 3 letters
Mount Carmel's locale: Abbr., 3 letters
Mt. Carmel locale (Abbr.), 3 letters
Mt. Carmel locale, briefly, 3 letters
Mt. Carmel site (Abbr.), 3 letters
Mt. Carmel site, briefly, 3 letters
Mt. Tabor's country, 3 letters
Mt. Tabor's country: Abbr., 3 letters
Much of its water comes from L. Tiberias, 3 letters
Nat. of Gene Simmons' birth, 3 letters
Nat. on the Mediterranean, 3 letters
Nat. ruled by a parliament, 3 letters
Nat. that turned 60 last year, 3 letters
Nat. where Gene Simmons was born, 3 letters
Nat. where you can play at Caesarea, 3 letters
Nat. where you might hear klezmer music, 3 letters
Nat. whose Independence Day is 5/14, 3 letters
Nat. whose leader was assassinated on Nov.4, 1995, 3 letters
Natalie Portman's birthpl., 3 letters
Nation accepted by the UN in 1948, 3 letters
Nation estab. in 1948, 3 letters
Nation founded in 1948 (Abbr.), 3 letters
Nation on the Medit. Sea, 3 letters
Nation since 1948: Abbr., 3 letters
Nation turning 50 in '98: abbr., 3 letters
Nation with controversial settlements: Abbr., 3 letters
Neighbor of Egypt (Abbr.), 3 letters
Neighbor of Jordan: Abbr., 3 letters
Netanyahu's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Netanyahu's nation: Abbr., 3 letters
New UN member in 1949, 3 letters
Nimrod Fortress Natl. Pk. setting, 3 letters
Onetime UAR neighbor, 3 letters
Place to spend shekels: Abbr., 3 letters
Pres. Peres's nation, 3 letters
Qishon River's country: abbr., 3 letters
Rabin's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Sabra's home: Abbr., 3 letters
Sabra's homeland: Abbr., 3 letters
Sharon's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Shekel spender: Abbr., 3 letters
Sinai borderer: Abbr., 3 letters
Six-Day War victor: Abbr., 3 letters
State founded in 1948 (abbr.), 3 letters
Tel Aviv-Yafo's land: Abbr., 3 letters
Tel Aviv's home: Abbr., 3 letters
Tel Aviv's land: abbr., 3 letters
The Land of Milk and Honey (abbr.), 3 letters
U.N. member since '49, 3 letters
U.N.-created land: Abbr., 3 letters
U.S. ally since '48, 3 letters
U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of its name: Abbr., 3 letters
UN member since 1948, 3 letters
UN-created country (abbr.), 3 letters
War of Attrition nat., 3 letters
West Bank locale: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Hatikvah is sung: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Mount Carmel is: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Mt. Carmel is: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Mt. Tabor is, briefly, 3 letters
Where Mt. Tabor is: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Oskar Schindler is buried: Abbr., 3 letters
Where Tel Aviv is: Abbr., 3 letters
Where the Knesset legislates (abbr.), 3 letters
Winner in 1967: Abbr., 3 letters
Mohammed's Night Journey, 4 letters
___ Baline (Irving Berlin), 6 letters
___ Museum (home of the Dead Sea Scrolls), 6 letters
___ in Egypt (Handel work), 6 letters
1979 peace treaty country, 6 letters
Country of kibbutzim, 6 letters
Country of which Moshe Katsav became president in 2000, 6 letters
Country that Soviet-born chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand now represents, 6 letters
Country that's won one Olympic gold medal, 6 letters
Country where KISS's Gene Simmons was born, 6 letters
Country where you can play a round at Caesarea, 6 letters
Country whose capital is Jerusalem, 6 letters
Country whose flag has two blue stripes and a Magen David, 6 letters
Country whose name means contender with God, 6 letters
David, the sweet psalmist of ___, 6 letters
Ehud Barak's concern, 6 letters
Ehud Barak's country, 6 letters
Handel's ___ in Egypt, 6 letters
Hebrew for contender with God, 6 letters
Hebrew for one who wrestles with God, 6 letters
Irving Berlin's first name, at birth, 6 letters
It released 13 Lebanese held as bargaining chips, 6 letters
It turns 60 in 2008, 6 letters
Its anthem is 'Hatikvah', 6 letters
Its flag is blue and white, 6 letters
Jacob's angel-given name, 6 letters
Jerusalem is its capital, 6 letters
Jerusalem's country, 6 letters
Jerusalem's location, 6 letters
Judean Plateau locale, 6 letters
Knesset member's home, 6 letters
Land of milk and honey, 6 letters
Land on the Mediterranean, 6 letters
Land with a blue and white flag, 6 letters
Literally, God perseveres, 6 letters
Location of Ben Gurion International Airport, 6 letters
Martin Indyk is new ambassador to this nation, 6 letters
Mediterranean country, 6 letters
Mediterranean nation, 6 letters
Middle East country, 6 letters
Mideast nation with a blue and white flag, 6 letters
Mideastern democracy, 6 letters
Mount Carmel locale, 6 letters
Mount Carmel setting, 6 letters
Name given to Jacob, 6 letters
Name given to Jacob after he wrestled with the angel, 6 letters
Nation born in 1948, 6 letters
Nation next to Jordan, 6 letters
Nation on the Mediterranean, 6 letters
Negev desert country, 6 letters
Neighbor of Lebanon and Egypt, 6 letters
Oslo Accords nation, 6 letters
Playwright Horovitz, 6 letters
Ramon Crater setting, 6 letters
Sabra's native land, 6 letters
Second name of Jacob, 6 letters
Setting of the Maccabiah Games, 6 letters
Six-Day War country, 6 letters
Six-Day War participant, 6 letters
State created in 1948, 6 letters
The land of milk and honey, according to Exodus, 6 letters
The last word of The First Noel, 6 letters
The pope is visiting here, 6 letters
U.N. member since 1949, 6 letters
Where Elat touches the Red Sea, 6 letters
Where Jaffa oranges are grown, 6 letters
Where Mount Carmel is, 6 letters
Where Mount Tabor is, 6 letters
Where shekels are spent, 6 letters
Where the Knesset sits, 6 letters
Where to dance the hora, 6 letters
Formerly part of Palestine, 6 letters
An ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea, 6 letters
Founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC, 6 letters
Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean, 6 letters
Adam Sandler's Zohan, 7 letters
Amos Oz or S.Y. Agnon, 7 letters
Ariel Sharon, notably, 7 letters
Begin or Sharon, e.g., 7 letters
Certain Middle Easterner, 7 letters
Citizen of Olmert's country, 7 letters
Dweller along the Sea of Galilee, 7 letters
Egyptian's neighbor, 7 letters
Ehud Barak or Ehud Olmert, 7 letters
Gene Simmons, by birth, 7 letters
Hailing from Haifa, perhaps, 7 letters
Itzhak Perlman, for one, 7 letters
Jerusalem inhabitant, 7 letters
Kadima party member, e.g., 7 letters
Labor Party member, maybe, 7 letters
Like Bar-Ilan University, 7 letters
Like most kibbutzniks, 7 letters
Like the Merkava battle tank, 7 letters
Many an Exodus character, 7 letters
Nationality since 1948, 7 letters
One led by Moses out of Egypt, 7 letters
Petach Tikva resident, 7 letters
Pinchas Zukerman, for one, 7 letters
Six-Day War combatant, 7 letters
Six-Day War participant, 7 letters
Theodor Herzl, for one, 7 letters
Uri Geller, for one, 7 letters
War of Attrition combatant, 7 letters
A native or inhabitant of Israel, 7 letters
Evaluation by the Knesset, 15 letters
Ball-shaped starch, 15 letters
The Tel Aviv Times?, 12 letters
Ambassador Michael Oren's DC home, 14 letters
*They live on acres of Acre's, 8 letters
Ariel Sharon and Golda Meir, 8 letters
Beersheeba residents, 8 letters
Citizens of Jerusalem, 8 letters
El Al customers, often, 8 letters
Golda Meir and Shimon Peres, 8 letters
Knesset members, for example, 8 letters
Pinning ears back, I half-listen to people from Haifa (8), 8 letters
Six-Day War combatants, 8 letters
Six-Day War participants, 8 letters
A descendant of Jacob, 9 letters
Descendant of Jacob, 9 letters
Hebrew Bible figure, 9 letters
Old covenant keeper, 9 letters
Resident of Samaria, 9 letters
Tribe member, of a sort, 9 letters
A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel, 9 letters
The Ten Commandments extras, 10 letters
Jacob's descendants, 10 letters
People of the Old Testament, 10 letters
They conquered Jericho, 10 letters
American Revolution general, 12 letters
Battle of Bunker Hill general, 12 letters
Revolutionary War general reconstructed planetariums (6,6), 12 letters
Soap opera in Haifa?, 12 letters
Life ___ !: Longfellow, 6 letters
Middle of the geometry problem, 13 letters
... the sky ___: Matt. 16:2, 5 letters
'... fair weather: for the sky___': Matthew, 5 letters
'Look not thou upon the wine when it --': Proverbs 23:31, 5 letters
It will be fair weather: for the sky ___: Matthew, 5 letters
My gal --- hot... (Billy Lee Riley lyric), 5 letters
My Name ___ (1998 Orhan Pamuk best-seller), 5 letters
The East ___, song of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, 5 letters
The East ___ (1960s Chinese anthem), 5 letters
The land ___ with judgments--Whittier, 5 letters
Orhan Pamuk's My Name ___, 5 letters
Rabbit ___ (Updike novel), 6 letters
Gets closest to without going over, on a certain game show, 7 letters