| A | B |
|---|
| aliyah | immigration to Israel |
| Ashkenazim | Jew of eastern or Central European background |
| bedouin | Arab tribal nomad |
| Diaspora | dispersal of Jews |
| effendi | Arab ruling family |
| fedayin | Palestinian guerilla |
| Eretz-Yisrael | Land of Israel |
| fellah | Palestinian peasant |
| Haganah | paramilitary Jewish organisation |
| Hibbat Zion | Russian Zionist movement of the 19th century |
| Intifada | uprising |
| Irgun | Jewish extremist group |
| jihad | Muslim holy war |
| Koran | Muslim holy book |
| mufti | Muslim religious leader |
| pogrom | Russian state sponsored persecution of Jews |
| rabbi | Jewish religious teacher |
| Sephardim | Jew of Mediterranean background |
| shetl | small Jewish towns in Russia |
| Talmud | summary of Jewish laws and customs |
| Torah | teachings of Judaism |
| Zionism | cultural and political movement for the creation of a Jewish state |
| monotheism | belief in one god |
| Wailing Wall | wall from the temple of Jerusalem where Jews pray |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jewish people |
| Shoah | catastophe or Holocaust |
| Ottoman Empire | Turkish Islamic empire |
| mandate | trustee system established by League of Nations with guidance to self governance |
| partition | divide a state into two or more parts |
| Theodore Herzl | founder of Zionism |
| 1897 | First Zionist congress |
| 1915 | McMahon-Hussein correspondence for Arab independence |
| Sykes-Picot | secret agreement dividing the Middle East between Britain, Russia and France |
| Balfour | declaration promising a Jewish national home in Palestine |
| riots | cause of over 200 Arab and Jewish deaths in 1929 |
| Peel | commission into recommending partition of Palestine |
