Might've Learned this in Sunday School
Founder of modern Zionism
Theodore Herzl - advocated for international recognition of an independent and sovereign Jewish state in the land of Israel.
Largest city in Israel
Jerusalem
First Female Prime Minister
Golda Meir -1969 to 1974
everything shuts down in the afternoon and will reopen the following evening
Shabbat
the name of the currency (money) used in Israel
What is the Shekel
₪
The people who live in israel...
Israelis-- made up of about 75% Jews, while about 20% are Arabs and the remaining are from other ethnicities.
Religion- about 75% are Jewish, 18% are Muslim, and only 2% are Christian. The remaining population follows other religions.
High-tech city, center of innovation, located on the Mediterranean sea.
Tel Aviv- Israel's "city that never sleeps"
Israel became a nation
May 14, 1948
Yom Ha'AtzMaut is celebrated!
A popular mode of transportation in Tel Aviv
Electric Scooters
The mandated Israeli Military service
What is the Israeli Defense Forces
The first Prime Minister of Israel
Located in between Jordan and Israel, come here to float
The Dead Sea
Six Day War- When, What
1967
Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, the Golan Heights of Syria and the West Bank and Arab sector of East Jerusalem, previously under Jordanian rule.
Similar to squirrels in the US, you may see ____ roaming cities.
Free trip to Israel when you turn 18!
Birthright Israel!
A Sabra
A slang word used to refer to somebody born in Israel
Kibbutzim
An intentional cooperative communities in Israel that were traditionally based on agriculture but have diversified into tourism opportunities over the years
The last remining piece of the original walls of the second temple is called
The Western Wall
Israel won the international music contest, Eurovision, in 2019 with what song?
Toy by Neta
Israel is roughly the same size as this US state
New Jersey
What "Kind of Jew" are you?
50% secular
50% combo Haredi, Masorti
Not the denominations we think of in America
What are the neighboring countries of Israel?
Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
Not History~
Name some Israeli Institutions of Higher Learning
Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Weizmann Institute of Science in Reḥovot, Bar-Ilan University Ben-Gurion University of the Negev & University of Haifa for ex.
The worlds 2nd longest _____ in located in Israel
Zip Line!
(and Dani has been on it)