1. Israel

2. Find Israel

3. Israel

4. West Bank Gaza Strip Golan Heights

6. Capital of Israel: Jerusalem

7. Jerusalem: Wailing Wall or Western Wall

8. Dead Sea

9. Israel is the holy land for three of the world’s religions Judaism Islam Christianity

10. Mandate of Palestine (1920-1948) After WW I, the League of Nations granted authority over Palestine to Britain

11. In 1947, British renounced the Mandate. United Nations partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab states Jerusalem is put under international control

12. 1948-1949 Despite Arab rejection, Israel declares its independence, May 14, 1948 1948 Arab-Israeli War (the partition is never implemented) The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The agreements ended the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank The Arab governments at this point refused to set up a State of Palestine.

13. 1949 Armistice Agreements

14. Population Movements, After 1948 Jews from Arab lands: 856,000 Jews left their homes in Arab countries from 1948 until the early 1970s. Approximately 600,000 resettled in Israel. Palestinians from Jewish lands: between 700,000 and 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from the area that became Israel but could not settle in the neighboring Arab states and became what is known today as the Palestinian refugees.

16. Israel captured: West Bank (including East Jerusalem) from Jordan Gaza and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt Golan Heights from Syria June 1967: Six Day War

17. Palestine 1988: the State of Palestine was formally recognized by 117 United Nations member states. 2005: Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip