Across
- 6. Object lit during the national ceremony
- 9. Initials of Israel's defense force
- 11. First Prime Minister of Israel
- 12. Official event at Mount Herzl
- 14. Sound that opens the memorial day
- 16. Israel’s parliament
- 17. Underground defense organization before Israel's founding
- 18. City where the state was declared
Down
- 1. Popular Yom Ha'atzmaut food tradition
- 2. Movement for a Jewish homeland
- 3. Hebrew month of Israel’s independence
- 4. What the Declaration of Independence was written on
- 5. Immigration to Israel
- 7. National anthem of Israel
- 8. Ancient city now part of Tel Aviv
- 10. Blue and white national symbol
- 13. Southernmost city of Israel, captured in 1949
- 15. Visionary of the Jewish state