Terrorist Groups
Wars & Uprisings
Peace & Treaties
Immigrants
Identity & Economy
100

First terrorist group founded to overthrow Israel.

What is the PLO? (Palestine Liberation Organization)

100

Two Palestinian uprisings against Israel were know as this, which means this.

What were the intifadas, meaning "shaking off".

100

These are the two former enemies with whom Israel has negotiated peace treaties.

Who are Egypt and Jordan?

100

These were some of the main problems (name at least two) faced by Beta Israel.

What are racism, lack of education, and job skills?

100

This is how the greatest percentage of Israelis identify with respect to religion.

What is secular?

200

This group is supported by this Shi'ite nation.

What is Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran? 

200

This was why Israel was taken by surprise by this war.

What was the strategy of attacking on erev Yom Kippur?

200

Peace was made with this country by exchanging this for peace.

What was Egypt who signed a peace treaty in return for getting back the Sinai?

200

Immigrants from this country were brought to Israel in this Israeli operation.

What was Ethiopia from where Israel brought out the Beta Israel in Operation Moses?

200

These are the ways the Israeli economy changed in the 1990s (name two).

What is greater privatization and greater competition, with less influence of farming and communal living (kibbutzim) and more emphasis on high tech?

300

These two groups both had their origins in these kinds of activities.

What are Hamas and Hezbollah and what is offering social services to their communities?

300

This war was Israel's closest call and is regarded as what by Egypt?

What is the Yom Kippur War, which Egypt regards as a stalemate or even a victory?

300

This Arab leader of this country was able to offer to make a peace treaty with Israel for this reason.

Who was Anwar Sadat of Egypt who offered a peace treaty because the Yom Kippur War had restored Egypt's reputation? (and warning of assassination plot)


300

These were the major motivations for coming to Israel of the two waves of immigrants from these countries. (specify motivation to country)

What were economic motives for Russian Jews and poverty and persecution for Ethiopian Jews?

300

These are the issues that make many Israelis resentful of accommodating religious observance (name at least three).

What is the orthodox control of marriage, divorce, funerals, conversions, and the ultra-orthodox exemption from army duty?

400

This group came to power in Gaza by doing this.

What is Hamas who came to power through an election?

400

These were the five areas gained by Israel in this war that occurred in 1967.

What is the Sinai, Gaza, Golan, West Bank, and East Jerusalem as a result of the Six Day War?

400

This organization ended hostilities with Israel by doing these two things.


What is the PLO who renounced terrorism and acknowledging Israel's right to exist?

400

This is the percentage of Russian Jews who had this problem after being admitted to Israel and these were the consequences of that problem.

What is thirty percent of Russian Jews who weren't considered halachicly Jewish and could not be married in Israel or buried in a Jewish cemetery?

400

This person was a major influence in persuading some Israelis, after 1967, to settle the West Bank because his writings convinced them of this.

Who was Rav Kook who declared that Zionism was the beginning of the Messianic Era, so lands gained in 1967 must be regarded as part of Eretz Israel?  

500

This terrorist group was driven out of this country and took refuge in this second country.

What is the PLO, who was driven out of Jordan, and took refuge in Lebanon?

500

This was the only war of this kind fought by Israel, these were Israel's chief allies, and this was Israel's goal.

What was an offensive war (war of choice) in Lebanon, allied with the Lebanese Christians, in order to drive out the PLO?

500

This peace process during the 1990s was negotiated by these leaders of these countries who were given what award.

What was the Oslo Accord and who were Yasser Arafat of the PA, and Shimon Perez and Yitzhak Rabin of Israel who were given the Nobel Peace Prize?

500

This was an expectation often disappointed for Russian Jews and this is the percentage of Russian Jews who eventually left Israel.

What is high expectation for jobs in the areas they'd trained for and what is 50% of Russian Jews leaving Israel?

500

These were two reasons for the tech boom of the 1990s.

What were the Oslo Accords and the immigration of Russians with tech training?

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