Name:_____________________

Putting Israel on the Map

Date:_____________

WARM-UP
What do you think would be most important to people of Jewish descent following World War II
and the Holocaust?

What can you learn from a map?

ISRAEL IN THE WORLD

Find South Africa on the map below and shade it in.
Find Germany and shade it in.
Then, label one more country on the map. Any country. Your choice

What are two things

that you can say about its location in the world?
The shaded area in the box is Israel.

Use the initials/abbreviations below to try to name at

least five of the countries on the map below.

Using the provided map and a highlighter or marker, color in the Palestinian areas of
control in 1946 on the left, and 2000 on the right. Then, choose one of the maps
below, and use a pencil or pen to try to draw in as many of the Palestinian villages
razed by Israel in 1948 and 1967 as you can.
1946
2000

Given the map activity that you just completed, describe the basic change in
control of land that has take in place in Israel over the past sixty years:

If you were Palestinian, how would you feel about this change in land control?

If you were Israeli, how would you feel about this change in land control?

Now were going to look at what land was taken from the Palestinians since 1967.
Observe the slideshow. What is the climate of Israel / Palestine like? Write down
observations of the images:

In that kind of an environment, what is one of the most valuable resources

around and why?

Map Activity #2:

Below are two maps. The first map shows where in the West Bank, or Palestinian territory
NOW LARGELY OCCUPIED by Israeli settlers, you can pump water out of the ground.
1. Color in the 2014 map on the far right to show the areas for High potential
pumping.
2. Answer: How much of the land that you colored in the land where you can
pump water out of the ground match the land taken or OCCUPIED by Israeli
settlers since 1967?

WATER IN THE WEST BANK OF ISRAEL

Name:

Date:

Israel/Palestine Homework (3/28)

Of the water available from West

Bank aquifers, Israel uses 73%,
West Bank Palestinians use 17%,
and illegal Jewish settlers use
10%.
Three million West Bank
Palestinians use only 250 million
cubic meters per year (83 cubic
meters per Palestinian per year)
while six million Israelis enjoy the
use of 1,954 million cubic meters
(333 cubic meters per Israeli per
year), which means that each
Israeli consumes as much water
as four Palestinians. Israeli
settlers are allocated 1,450 cubic
meters of water per person per
year.
Israel consumes the vast majority
of the water from the Jordan River
despite only 3% of the river
falling within its pre-1967
borders. Israel now diverts one
quarter of its total water
consumption through its National
Water Carrier from the Jordan
River, whereas Palestinians have
no access to it whatsoever due
to Israeli closures.

Summarize:

Using the map activity that you just completed, describe how Israeli land seizures since 1967
have created this situation.

Honors Extension: Draw a cartoon or picture showing what has happened with
the water in and around the West Bank. Staple to assignment

Inevitable

Define

Belligerent

Inhabiting

Uprooted

Arisen

Hobbled

Summarize:

I find myself as convinced as ever

that the Israelis played a major role
in ridding the country of tens of
thousands of Arabs [700,000] during
the 1948 war, but I also believe their
actions were inevitable and made
sense. Had the belligerent Arab
population inhabiting the areas
destined for Jewish statehood not
been uprooted, no Jewish state

would have arisen, or it would have

emerged so hobbled that it could
not have survived. It was an ugly
business. Such is history.
--Benny Morris, Israeli historian. LA
Times editorial, 2004
http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jan/26/o
pinion/oe-morris26
History is written by the victors is a common saying. How does Morris statement above confirm that
point of view?