11.  As the myths fade, Israel is deciding whether a Jewish state can ever truly be normal.

12.  At bottom, the struggle is over the future of Judaism in the Jewish state.

13.  Assad was appalled that Arafat had become yet another Arab leader making a separate peace with the Jewish state.

14.  Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein said that Israel, as the Jewish state, was obliged to make the material public.

15.  Barak wants assurances that Israel will still have access to the Galilee, an important fresh water source for the Jewish state.

16.  Barak has also talked tough on security and assured voters that Jerusalem is the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state.

17.  Ben-Yehuda became convinced early on in his native Lithuania that the creation of a Jewish state required the revival of a national language.

18.  Bin Laden would not want a Palestinian state on the West Bank, because he could not abide a Jewish state alongside it.

19.  Never once did any Arab army set foot on the Jewish state.

20.  A brief jaunt almost anyplace in Israel these days reveals that the Jewish state is chock-full of cell phones.