Complete Clue List
Across
1. The major city in Jewish life, art and thought since King David's time (1000 BCE)
6. A vibrant city on the Mediterranean coastline, founded 1909 (3,4)
9. A crucial natural resource, very scarce and problematic in Israel's geographic region (French word)
10. A sect of Ethiopian Jewry, forced to convert to Christianity (5,4)
12. ____ Haza (rip), a successful Israeli ethnic pop singer
16. Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics (initials)
17. Birth place of John the Baptist, nowadays a neighbourhood of 1 across (3,5)
19. The Israeli currency (acronym)
20. ____ Ram, an Israeli tennis player who excels in doubles matches, won 2006 Wimbledon mixed doubles
21. An Israeli company, world leader in generic pharmaceuticals
23. Hebrew name for the Sea of Galilee
25. Israel's national airline (2,2)
26. Air Force (acronym), or Hebrew for "nose"
27. Kibbutz El ___, an Israeli settlement in the Golan Heights
29. A major Israeli centre-right political party (Hebrew name, means "the consolidation")
31. "Red Shield of David", Israel's national medical emergency service (Hebrew acronym)
32. The centre for Holocaust education, commemoration and research (Hebrew acronym)
34. The sixth month of the Jewish civil calendar
36. Kibbutz in the finger of the Galilee, named after a French Jewish PM (4,4)
38. The Merkava, for example
39. A posh township on the outskirts of 54 across
40. The Israeli timezone (acronym)
43. A ship whose bombing on the shore of 6 across was the setting of Israel's short civil war
46. ___ Mochiach, an Israeli percussionist and producer, ex-member of Gogol Bordello
48. National Association for the Habilitation of the Mentally Handicapped in Israel
49. An Israeli musician, belongs to Israel's most artistic family, worked with The Refugees band (4,5)
52. Israel's ___ code is 972 (International Subscriber Dialing, initials)
53. Home of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Hebrew name, means "streets")
54. A city known as the capital of the Negev desert, first mentioned in the book of Genesis
Down
1. An ancient port from which prophet Jonah fled, nowadays a mixed Arab-Jewish city
2. Short form of "Rav Aluf", the IDF Chief of Staff
3. A kibbutz on the Israel-Lebanon border
4. See 22 down
5. ___ Shearim (Hebrew, means "hundred gates"), an ultra-orthodox neighbourhood of 1 across
6. __ BiShvat, the Jewish new year of the trees
7. A port city in northern Israel, besieged by Napoleon in 1799
8. Israel's internet suffix
11. 3000-year-old Jewish symbol, nowadays the emblem of the state of Israel
12. "____ in Israel", a term denoting either good or bad things unique to Israel
13. Fox Kids, an international Israeli apparel company (acronym)
14. A city settlement in Samaria, 40km east of 6 across and 60km north of 1 across
15. Arab city in Northern Israel, name literally means "mother of charcoal" (3,2,4)
17. A major resort hotel district on the Dead Sea (3,5)
18. One of Israel's 12 tribes whose biblical plot of land is nowadays called "Gush ___"
21. The ninth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
22. On May 14, 1948, this body ("national committee") declared Israel's independence (4,5 with 4 down)
23. A southern city hosting Intel processor fabs (6,3)
24. A bedouin township in southern Israel (3,5)
28. An international airport in southern Israel
30. What normally happens to an Israeli at 18 - _______ to the IDF
33. ___ of the Covenant, contained the Decalogue and disappeared from the Holy Temple of 1 across
35. An Arab township on the outskirts of 1 across, identified with Anathoth (birthplace of Jeremiah)
37. A mixed Jewish-Arab city in central Israel and home to its international airport
39. A major Israeli food company (where the Bamba was invented)
41. A religious sect, offshoot of Shi'a Islam, whose members are a recognized minority in Israel
42. A major port city in Northern Israel built on the slopes of Mount Carmel
44. Hebrew name of 7 Down
45. __ On, a communal settlement in central Israel
47. Elisha ____, an Israeli concert pianist and ex-footballer
49. First chairman of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission (initials)
50. Golda Meir (___ Mabovitz), Israel's PM 1969-1974
51. Seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet
52. Information technology, a major Israeli industry (acronym)