Places in Israel
This is the lowest sea on Earth, and very salty!
What is the Dead Sea / ים המלח?
These are the two colors of the Israeli flag.
What are blue and white?
(Bonus: how do you say them in Hebrew?)
This is the Hebrew name for Israel's Independence Day.
What is Yom Ha'Atzmaut?
This year is this number birthday for Israel.
What is 72nd?
This city is Israel's capital.
What is Jerusalem / ירושלים?
This US State is closest in size to Israel.
What is New Jersey?
In the middle of the flag, this symbol stands for Israel and also for the Jewish people.
What is the magen david?
True or false: In Israel on Yom Ha'Atzmaut, there are fireworks and people have barbecues and picnics.
True
The Kotel is a wall from this building, which stood in Eretz Yisrael for hundreds of years.
What is the Beit HaMikdash?
(Bonus: The Kotel is not the only wall of the Beit HaMikdash still standing. Why do we daven there?)This is the age at which Israelis enter the army.
What is 18?
This is a dry, hot place in the south of Israel.
What is the Negev Desert?
The blue stripes on the flag remind us of this object.
What is the tallit?
This is the Hebrew date of Yom Ha'Atzmaut.
What is the 5th of Iyar / ה' אייר?
Before it was called the Land of Israel, Israel was called by this name, which also appears in the Torah.
What is Eretz Canaan?
This is the name of the currency (money) in Israel.
What is the shekel?
This sea gives Israel much of its fresh water.
What is the Kinneret?
This is what the white color of the flag represents.
What is purity?
The day before Yom Ha'Atzmaut, this is a sad day on which we remember Israeli soldiers' contribution to keeping our country safe.
What is Yom HaZikaron?
Currently, about this many Jews live in Israel:
a) 300,000
b) 6.7 million
c) 20 million
What is b - 6.7 million?
On the beaches of the Mediterranean (ים התיכון), this is the second largest city in Israel.
What is Tel Aviv?
This is the Hebrew word for a town smaller than a city.
What is yishuv?
True or false: the current Israeli flag was the only design suggested for the flag.
False
When the siren sounds on Yom HaZikaron, Israelis throughout the country do this.
What is stand silently at attention? (even stopping their cars and getting out!)
This is the year in which Israel was founded.
What is 1948?
Meaning "to go up," this is the Hebrew word for moving to Israel.
What is aliyah?