Across
- 2. separate ones existed for Jews and Muslims
- 3. name given to new Jewish country
- 5. property is controlled and protected by a group
- 8. formally ask for independence
- 10. someone forced to flee a country
- 12. Prime Minister who turned to UN for help
- 14. land on the Jordan River
- 15. one of Islam's most important shrines
- 17. ruled Palestine during the Balfour Declaration
Down
- 1. a trust territory
- 4. strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea
- 6. short war between Israel and five other countries
- 7. the religious center of ancient Judea
- 9. one of the Arab countries that attacked in 1948
- 11. empire that Palestine had been part of
- 13. Jewish holy land
- 16. rise of Jewish nationalism
- 18. the religion of Palestinan Arabs