Quiz Time




* What is the name of the Israel Parliament? The Knesset

* How many members sit in the Knesset? 120

* Why are there 120 members of Knesset?

Because there were 120 members in the "Keneset ha-Gedolah" (Great Assembly) of the early Second Temple period.

* What is the name of Israel's national anthem? Hatikvah (Hope)

* What is the capital of Israel? Jerusalem

* In what years was Jerusalem a divided city? From 1948 to 1967

* Who wrote "The Jewish State"? Theodor Zeev Herzl

* Where and when was the first Zionist Congress held?

Basel, Switzerland, 1897

* Who was the first Prime Minister of Israel? David Ben-Gurion

* Which neighboring Arab countries have a peace agreement with Israel?

Egypt, Jordan

* What was the Jewish self-defense force called before 1948?

The Haganah

* Name three prime ministers of Israel?

Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, Moshe Sharett, Golda Meir, Shimon Peres,

Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Yitzhak Shamir, Binyamin Netanyahu.

* Name three presidents of Israel?

Chaim Weizmann, Zalman Shazar, Yitzhak Ben Zvi, Yitzhak Navon, Chaim

Herzog, Ezer Weizmann.

* When did the U.N. vote for partition of Palestine?

November 29 (ли), 1947

* Which Israeli prime minister was once ambassador to the USSR?

Golda Meir (Myerson), 1948

* What was Operation Magic Carpet and when did it take place?

Israeli operation which brought the almost entire Jewish population of Yemen (about 50,000) to Israel in the early 1950's. The Yemenite immigrants referred to the El Al planes as their "magic carpet."

* What was Operation Yonatan (Thunderbolt) and when did it take place?

Israeli commando operation to rescue Jewish hostages from terrorists at Entebbe airport, Uganda, July 4, 1976

* What was Operation Moses and when did it take place?

Rescue of Jewish Ethiopian refugees from famine and starvation. They travelled through the Sudan and were brought to Israel, end of 1984 - January, 1985.

Fun questions to be asked

in the middle of the Quiz

* What would you say if you met (one personality per group):

Theodor Herzl / Anne Frank / David Ben-Gurion / Golda Meir / King Hussein

* Describe two places of interest you would take visitors from overseas to see. (What is the place? What is there to see or do there? Why take your  visitors there?)

Each group must have more than two sites lined up as they are not allowed to repeat places that have already been mentioned.

* Pantomime:

Montefiore's Windmill / Mount Hermon / Yad Vashem / The Western Wall / etc.

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