Historical clue formulations

• Country that is more than 50% desert: Abbr. — 2025-05-03
• Neighbor of Lebanon: Abbr. — 2024-09-08
• Neighbor of Leb. — 2024-05-16
• Neighbor of Leb. — 2024-03-31
• Leb. neighbor — 2024-03-03
• Home to Masada National Park: Abbr. — 2023-07-30
• Country whose postal service has a special "Letters to God" dept. — 2023-04-01
• Egypt neighbor: Abbr. — 2023-01-01
• Six-Day War combatant: Abbr. — 2022-09-11
• Destination for Birthright trips: Abbr. — 2021-12-05
• Where Gal Gadot was born: Abbr. — 2021-10-17
• Home of Tel Aviv: Abbr. — 2021-06-14
• Country whose flag has two blue stripes and a star: Abbr. — 2021-06-02
• It's south of Leb. — 2021-03-18
• Where the flash drive was invented: Abbr. — 2021-01-02
• Home of Mount Carmel: Abbr. — 2020-09-16
• Country where the cellphone was developed: Abbr. — 2020-02-06
• Medit. country — 2019-06-18
• Its national anthem is "Hatikvah": Abbr. — 2019-03-17
• Country on the Mediterranean: Abbr. — 2019-03-12
• Eastern Med. land — 2017-08-17
• Mossad's land: Abbr. — 2017-08-09
• Tel Aviv's land: Abbr. — 2017-08-07
• United Nations entrant of 1949: Abbr. — 2017-05-21
• Haifa's country: Abbr. — 2017-04-25
• Mediterranean land: Abbr. — 2016-10-09
• Kibbutz locale: Abbr. — 2016-06-13
• Land south of Leb. — 2015-11-11
• El Al destination: Abbr. — 2015-04-07
• Medit. country — 2014-12-11
• Mount Zion’s land: Abbr. — 2014-03-16
• Home to Bar-Ilan Univ. — 2013-11-29
• El Al destination: Abbr. — 2013-10-20
• Non-Eur. U.S. ally — 2013-09-29
• Acre's locale: Abbr. — 2013-06-19
• U.S. ally whose capital has the letters U-S-A in the middle of its name: Abbr. — 2012-07-18
• See 32-Down: Abbr. — 2012-05-20
• It has more museums per capita than any other country: Abbr. — 2012-05-11
• U.N. member since '49 — 2011-10-02
• Tel Aviv's home: Abbr. — 2011-05-30
• Where Oskar Schindler is buried: Abbr. — 2011-05-18
• Its highest mtn. is Meron — 2010-12-04
• Medit. state — 2010-10-03
• Maccabiah Games setting: Abbr. — 2010-08-21
• U.N.-created land: Abbr. — 2010-08-15
• Neighbor of Syr. — 2010-07-01
• Land that's largely desert: Abbr. — 2010-01-31
• Mideast land since 1948: Abbr. — 2010-01-12
• Country whose national anthem's title means "The Hope": Abbr. — 2009-05-24
• Mideast land: Abbr. — 2009-05-20