History
The year Israel declared independence.
What is 1948?
In September 2020, Israel normalized relations with the UAE and Bahrain under this framework, later joined by Morocco and Sudan.
What are the Abraham Accords?
Israel's parliament, consisting of 120 members elected through proportional representation.
What is the Knesset?
Israel has this many official languages.
What is Two (Hebrew and Arabic)?
This Austro-Hungarian journalist wrote "Der Judenstaat" (The Jewish State) in 1896 and is considered the father of modern political Zionism.
Who is Theodor Herzl?
These political agreements were signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin in 1978.
What are the Camp David Accords?
This Iran-backed Lebanese terrorist organization was significantly weakened by Israeli strikes in 2024.
What is Hezbollah
Israel's head of state with largely ceremonial duties, elected by the Knesset for a single seven-year term.
What is the President of Israel?
This is the approximate percentage of Israeli citizens who are Arab, making them the largest minority group.
What is 20-21%?
The First Zionist Congress was held in this Swiss city in 1897.
What is Basel?
This Arab country established peace with Israel in 1994.
What is Jordan?
This conflict in June 2025 saw Israel launch Operation Rising Lion against Iran's nuclear facilities and military infrastructure.
What is the Twelve-Day War (Israel-Iran War)?
Due to Israel's proportional representation system, governments are typically formed through these multi-party alliances.
What are Coalitions?
This group makes up the majority of Israel's Jewish population.
What are Mizrahi/Sephardic Jews?
This socialist Zionist movement founded many of Israel's kibbutzim and dominated Israeli politics for decades.
What is Labor Zionism?
This 1967 conflict lasted six days and resulted in Israel capturing the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Six-Day War?
This Iran-backed group in Yemen has launched attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea since 2023 in support of Hamas.
Who are the Houthis?
In 2022, Israel had held this many elections in less than four years due to political gridlock.
What is five elections?
This ethnic group, primarily living in northern Israel and the Golan Heights, and known for their IDF service, has their own religious identity distinct from Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
Who are the Druze?
This Zionist movement, led by Ze'ev Jabotinsky, advocated for a Jewish state on both sides of the Jordan River and emphasized Jewish self-defense.
What is Revisionist Zionism?
These two operations, in 1984, and 1991, brought ~22,000 Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jews) to Israel.
What are Operation Moses and Solomon?
In September 2024, Israel conducted an operation, referred to by some as "Operation Grim Beeper", which targeted Hezbollah by exploding these devices.
What are pagers?
These fundamental laws form Israel's constitutional framework.
What are Basic Laws/Chukei Yesod?
This city near Tel Aviv has among the highest percentage of Haredi residents in Israel.
What is Bnei Brak?
This Zionist paramilitary organization, founded in 1920, later became the core of the Israel Defense Forces.
What is the Haganah?