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Israeli Cross Words

Answers:

ACROSS

  1 Tel Aviv's region /DAN

  4 ___-Israel (Zionist) /PRO

  7 ___-v'chalila /CHAS

 11 Outer pair for four-eyes (slang) /SPECS

 16 issue a statement together /COSAY

 18 Depend on /RELY

 20 ג€œ_____ Gun, Will Travelג€ /HAVE

 21 Give amazingly large sums to Knesset parties based on how many voters they had /ALLOT

 22 Katznelson biographer Shapira /ANITA

 23 Unemployed /IDLE

 24 Actress Porat /ORNA

 25 Oy ___ lecha! (mild Israeli threat) /VAVOY

 26 First word of "NATBAG" /NAMAL

 27 Nefarious UN slur /ZIONISMISRACISM

 30 What Yom Kippur is the day of, besides bicycle riding /ATONEMENT

 32 Ethiopian-Jewish leader /KES

 33 The best policy (unless you're a politician) /HONESTY

 34 An alternative to 11 across /LENS

 35 Alternative monicker for 30 across /AWE

 36 Le ___, French racist politician /PEN

 37 Defeats /BESTS

 38 A case for storing cigars (yeah, I now, this is a silly word. But it fit.) /HUMIDOR

 41 Sportscaster Yaniv /ORLI

 42 Disparaging term for a Bnei Brak denizen /DOS

 45 Neveh ___, near the Israel Museum/SHAANAN

 48 Your favorite newspaper /JERUSALEMPOST

 53 "It's the first time in 2,000 ___..." /YEARS

 54 Shamir's famous three obstacles /NOS

 56 Last year's Subaru /USED

 57 Yiddish quidnunc /YENTE

 58 Fell sick again /RELAPSED

 60 Wading bird /IBIS

 61 Deir ___ (alt. spelling), a former village where Givat Shaul is now located /YASSEEN

 63 ___ Dame, a small hospital bordering on Jerusalem's former No-Man's Land /NOTRE

 64 "___ and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"  /ZEN

 65 Stops at an army checkpoint /HALTS

 66 Burger Ranch sauces /CATSUPS

 69 Haifa industrial by-product /SMOG

 70 Source for biblical verse favored by the extreme right, "Ye will revolt more and more." /ISAIAHIV

 74 Popular Middle Eastern liquors /ARAKS

 75 The deer is its emblem /MAIL

 76 A tourist to the Faroe Islands would have his shtreimel blown off by these whirlwinds /OES

 77 Favorite swig of Israeli kids /CHOCO

 78 Synagogue utterance just before winter /PRAYERFORRAIN

 82 What a Yamit resident became /EVACUEE

 84 Byline on Alex's week off (bit of an in-joke, this one) /SAM

 85 Lady of Shalom Hanoch song /ELLA

 86 Bore again /REDRILL

 88 "___ we trust" (a slogan that should have been on our coins when Ya'acobi was finance minister) /INGAD

 90 Int'l sports association that would feel at home in Caesarea /PGA

 92 High-flying org. /IAI

 93 Birthright salesman /ESAU

 97 From the French words for "warm" and "slow", this dish is the only way to get a Jew to eat stuffed intestines /CHOLENT

100 Character from the movie Exodus /ARI

101 Where to go to yell "Shabbes! Shabbes!" and hurl rocks at passing cars /BARILANRD

103 The two most distant towns /EILATANDMETULLA

106 Funds from a world body promised to the Palestinians /UNAID

107 What Yigal Amir wore in court /IRONS

108 Both Orr and Post staffer Lewis /ORIS

109 Mideastern hemp smoked to produce euphoria /KEEF

110 Chutzpah /NERVE

111 Religious kibbutz near 88D /LAVIE

112 Hamashbir ploy to move last season's stock /SALE

113 Ra'anana association for people still clinging to their mother tongue (abbr.) /ESRA

114 Grapevine gatherer Cashman /GREER

115 Apply humous /SMEAR

116 Labor Party ballot letters (transliterated) /EMET

117 Jetliner you'll never see fly the Tel Aviv-Eilat route (abbr.) /SST

118 We've had lots of immigrants from this place recently (abbr.) /SSR

DOWN

  1 Put a little something into the pushke /DONATE

  2 Hole-y coin of yore /ASIMON

  3 Minister who was once in jail /NATANSHARANSKY

  4 What Agnon and Arafat were in common /PRIZEWINNERS

  5 Had chicken again /REDINED

  6 Immigrants Ruth, Rena and Rita (Hebrew) /OLLOT

  7 The ___ People /CHOSEN

  8 Injures /HARMS

  9 Yehuda ___, popular proprietor of Vered Hagalil, the only dude ranch in the world with a mezuza on it (hint: he Hebraicized his name from Stone) /AVNI

 10 She might sell one by Netanya or Eilat /SEASHELL

 11 Sage /SAVANT

 12 Locations /PLACES

 13 The King of Rock 'n' Roll, olove hasholom /ELVIS

 14 Cast (Scottish form) (This is definitely the worst word in the entire puzzle, but it was either this or give up in frustration and fill this page with something else instead) /COOST

 15 Thwart (variant spelling) (Look, if I knew it was going to be this hard to fill in all the little squares to make perfectly-spelled words going across and down, I never would have started, so please bear with me) /STYMY

 16 Med-Dead dud /CANAL

 17 US university /YALE

 19 What you change your shekels into when you visit Kobe /YEN

 28 Nickname of US president during the Sinai War /IKE

 29 She got laid with Sammy /ROSIE

 31 ___ loshen /MAMA

 36 ___-State (Palestine) /PRE

 37 Leaf of Maccabi Tel Aviv /BRAD

 39 Disengage from marriage (Aw, c'mon Orbaum, that's not a real word!) /UNSPOUSE

 40 Monogram of gridiron, film and courtroom fame /OJS

 41 Carbohydrates (suffix) /OSES

 42 Finished /DONE

 43 River near Hamburg /OSTE

 44 British gun (this hint is a giveaway, but it's a great bit of trivia: the word was created from the names "Sheppard," a British army officer; "Turpin," a British civil servant; and "England," an island near Europe) /STEN

 45 This country is willing to take back the Golan for nothing in return and expects us to apologize for capturing it as a way of preventing them from using our citizens as target practise (abbr.) /SYR

 46 ___ Haw /HEE

 47 East Indian shrub, popular among Scrabble players with too many vowels /AAL

 49 Measles (if it helps, the Hebrew word for it is ademet) /RUBEOLA

 50 Employing /USING

 51 Like the Zohar /MYSTICAL

 52 What we all turn into shortly after Purim /PESSAHCLEANERS

 55 Poem /ODE

 59 Automotive lubricant brand name /STP

 60 Luckless Turkish city? (as in "oy vey ___") /IZMIR

 61 Stubbly staresman /YASSERARAFAT

 62 Abu ___, Palestinian leader /ALA

 65 Nu, what are you waiting for? /HIE

 66 Headcoverings, the sort you wear when you don't want your kippa to be seen /CAPS

 67 Village south of Um el-Fahm /ARRA

 68 ___ v'Reah (Israeli brand of spices) /TAAM

 69 She got things started between the Jews and Arabs when she kicked Ishmael out /SARA

 71 Chinese name (well, how many can there be?) /HOU

 72 Freezer cube /ICE

 73 Small bay or creek /VOE

 75 That green stuff on last month's challa /MOLD

 76 How many gods we have /ONE

 79 Kingdoms (this answer proves, if by now you still need proof, that I have no future as a professional cruciverbalist) /REGNA

 80 Not a facial feature depicted by antisemitic cartoonists /FLATNOSE

 81 UKג€™s PLO, perhaps /IRA

 83 Hankering Henry /VIII

 87 Nearly extinct Bezek users /DIALERS

 88 Farmstead founded in 1899 near Golani Junction /ILANIA

 89 _____ Sereni /NETSER

 90 What you do to your VCR when you have to go to a wedding but you don't want to miss ג€œPopolitikaג€ /PRESET

 91 Davkanik (British slang) /GIT

 94 Entangles /SNARES

 95 If they made a film about Hayarkon Park, they could call it "___ Runs Through It" /ARIVER

 96 Tnuva supplier /UDDER

 97 Installs a separator between floors /CEILS

 98 Tyre king who helped build Solomonג€™s Temple /HIRAM

 99 ______ - hashalom /OLOVE

100 How far some people would walk for a Camel /AMILE

101 What rabbis do for a living /BLESS

102 Breathing apparatus you might find in a me'urav /LUNG

104 A measure of schnappes, perhaps /DRAM

105 Instrument played while tiptoeing through the tulips /UKE