Middle East
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Diaspora
A dispersion of people from their homeland
Zionism
A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine.
Amman
Capital of Jordan
Damascus
Capital of Syria
Ankara
Capital of Turkey
Secular
Non-religious
Dead Sea
a landlocked salt lake between Israel and Jordan that is so salty that almost nothing can live in its waters
Jordan River
a river in southwestern Asia that flows from the Lebanon Mountains, south through the Sea of Galilee, into the Dead Sea
West Bank
an area between Israel and Jordan on the west bank of the Jordan river
Kosher
prepared according to Jewish dietary law
