Prime Ministers
This man led Israel into independence and became the first Prime Minister
David Ben Gurion
This song you all know won Eurovision in 2018
Toy by Netta
One of the oldest cities in the world that is still inhabited, this city was founded by King David 3,000 years ago
Jerusalem
The full term for “dining hall”
Chadar Ochel
(חדר אוכל)
This country has the second-largest Jewish community in the whole world, but it doesn’t stop thousands of them to make aliyah each year
The United States
This Tel-Aviv native is the longest running prime minister in Israeli history
Benjamin Netanyahu
This 1973 war began on the holiest day in Judaism
Yom Kippur War
This economically and technologically prosperous city was founded by Jewish immigrants near Jaffa in 1909
Tel Aviv
The word for “family”
Mishpacha
(משפחה)
Hundreds of thousands of Jews have made aliyah to Israel from this biggest country in the world
Russia
This female prime minister was an active Zionist since high school and has been called Israel’s Iron Lady
Golda Meir
This artifact was found near a famous saltwater lake and included parts of religious texts and other documents from around 2,000 years ago
Dead Sea Scrolls
This southernmost Israeli city is famous for being a port city to the Red Sea
Eilat
The full term for “State of Israel”
Medinat Israel
(מדינת ישראל)
Jews have been here ever since it was controlled by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, and Operation Ezra and Nehemiah airlifted over 100,000 of them to Israel
Iraq
This prime minister not only led Israel to victory in the Six Day War, but he also received a Nobel Peace Price for his peace agreements with the Palestinians before he was assassinated
Yitzhak Rabin
In 2005, Israel evacuated Israeli settlers and military from this dangerous strip of land
The Gaza Strip
This large northern Mediterranean port city is Israel’s third-largest city is home to respected universities and advanced technology
Haifa
The word for the number “nineteen”
Tisha Esrei
(תשע עשרה)
Operation Moses secretly evacuated many Jews from this North African country in the 1980s. (Hint: It begins with an E)
Ethiopia
This prime minister was elected in 1977 and won a Nobel Peace Prize for a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
Menachem Begin
In 2020, representatives from the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Israel met in the White House to sign these agreements named after a biblical figure
The Abraham Accords
This city in the Galilee became a prominent city of mysticism and Kabbalah after Sephardic rabbis resettled there after the Spanish Inquisition
Tzfat
The sentence “my dog loves watermelon”
Ha-kelev sheli ohev et avatiach
(הכלב שלי אוהב אבטיח)
Operation Magic Carpet brought thousands of Jews to Israel from this five-letter country south of Saudi Arabia
Yemen