GAZA Antonyms

• capital and largest city of the modern state of Israel (although its status as capital is disputed); it was captured from Jordan in 1967 in the Six Day War; a holy city for Jews and Christians and Muslims; was the capital of an ancient kingdom

• a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948

• an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism

• the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century

• the largest city and financial center of Israel; located in western Israel on the Mediterranean

• an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river; populated largely by Palestinians