ISRAEL

Sabra's native land

• ___ Baline (Irving Berlin)

• ___ Museum (home of the Dead Sea Scrolls)

• ___ in Egypt (Handel work)

• 1948 creation

• 1979 peace treaty country

• Abba Eban's land

• Acre land

• Acre's acres?

• Acre's home

• Ahab commanded it

• Ahab's kingdom

• Ally of America

• Begin's land

• Bibi's nation

• Biblical patriarch

• Country of kibbutzim

• Country of which Moshe Katsav became president in 2000

• Country since 1948

• Country that Soviet-born chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand now represents

• Country that's won one Olympic gold medal

• Country where KISS's Gene Simmons was born

• Country where you can play a round at Caesarea

• Country whose capital is Jerusalem

• Country whose flag has two blue stripes and a Magen David

• Country whose name means contender with God

• Creation of 1948

• David, the sweet psalmist of ___

• Dead Sea land

• Desert country

• Egypt neighbor

• Ehud Barak's concern

• Ehud Barak's country

• Ehud Barak's land

• El Al's home

• Galilee's land

• Galilee's locale

• Golda Meir's land

• Green Line nation

• Haifa's country

• Haifa's home

• Handel's ___ in Egypt

• Hebrew for contender with God

• Hebrew for one who wrestles with God

• Hebrew nation

• Home to Haifa

• Irving Berlin's first name, at birth

• It released 13 Lebanese held as bargaining chips

• It turns 60 in 2008

• Its anthem is 'Hatikvah'

• Its flag is blue and white

• Jacob's angel-given name

• Jacob's other name

• Jerusalem is its capital

• Jerusalem's country

• Jerusalem's land

• Jerusalem's locale

• Jerusalem's location

• Jerusalem's milieu

• Jordan neighbor

• Judean Plateau locale

• Kibbutz setting

• Kibbutz site

• Kibbutznik's home

• Kibbutznik's land

• Knesset member's home

• Land of Amos Oz

• Land of Canaan

• Land of milk and honey

• Land of Oz

• Land on the Mediterranean

• Land with a blue and white flag

• Lebanon neighbor

• Literally, God perseveres

• Location of Ben Gurion International Airport

• Lost tribes' home

• Martin Indyk is new ambassador to this nation

• Mediterranean country

• Mediterranean nation

• Meir's land

• Melville's Potter

• Middle East country

• Middle East land

• Mideast land

• Mideast nation with a blue and white flag

• Mideastern democracy

• Mount Carmel locale

• Mount Carmel setting

• Name given to Jacob

• Name given to Jacob after he wrestled with the angel

• Nation born in 1948

• Nation next to Jordan

• Nation on the Mediterranean

• Nation since '48

• Nazareth locale

• Negev desert country

• Negev Desert site

• Negev locale

• Negev nation

• Negev's country

• Neighbor of Jordan

• Neighbor of Lebanon and Egypt

• Netanyahu's domain

• Netanyahu's land

• Netanyahu's nation

• Oslo Accords nation

• Patriot Putnam

• Playwright Horovitz

• Promised Land

• Rabin's land

• Ramon Crater setting

• Rehovot's land

• Sabra's home

• Sabra's homeland

• Saul's kingdom

• Saul's realm

• Saul's subjects

• Second name of Jacob

• Setting of the Maccabiah Games

• Shamir's land

• Sharon's country

• Sharon's land

• Site of Beersheba

• Six-Day War country

• Six-Day War nation

• Six-Day War participant

• Six-Day War side

• Solomon's kingdom

• State created in 1948

• State since '48

• Syria's neighbor

• Tel Aviv's land

• The land of milk and honey, according to Exodus

• The last word of The First Noel

• The pope is visiting here

• U.N. member since 1949

• West Bank neighbor

• Where Acre is

• Where Elat touches the Red Sea

• Where Jaffa is

• Where Jaffa oranges are grown

• Where Jehu ruled

• Where Jerusalem is

• Where Mount Carmel is

• Where Mount Tabor is

• Where shekels are spent

• Where the Knesset sits

• Where to dance the hora

• Zion

• Zionist's homeland

• Formerly part of Palestine

• An ancient kingdom of the Hebrew tribes at the southeastern end of the Mediterranean Sea

• Founded by Saul around 1025 BC and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 BC

• Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean