evidence: Following the rise of Netanyahu’s Likud party in 1977, Housing Minister David Levy removed the Green Line from official Israel maps. The Knesset rejected an effort in 2007 by then-Education Minister Yuli Tamir to return the Line to Israeli textbooks, and today, the State Department reports that over three-quarters of Israeli maps lack any distinction between Israeli and Palestinian territory. [...] While J Street, the Reform Movement and others are leading an effort to put the Green Line on American Jewish maps, the vast majority of maps used by Jewish institutions–including synagogues, Hebrew schools and Jewish federations– have no Green Line or distinction between Israel and occupied territory. This is just one example of the ways in which the Green Line is being erased from the Jewish communal consciousness–contributing to the denial of legitimate Palestinian claims to the land and undermining the prospects for a two-state resolution. [...] In one page… what is the Green Line and why does it matter to Israel? Here are some key questions, answers and additional references.