Potpourri
The United States recycles 1% of its water, but Israel recycles this impressive amount. (answer to the nearest 10 percent)
What is 90%?
This is the most popular sport in Israel.
What is soccer?
This non-Muslim ethnic minority group is one of the few Arabic-speaking peoples of Israel who widely serve in the IDF.
Who are the Druze?
Tahini is a widely popular spread and dip in many Eastern Mediterranean cuisines. It is made from grinding and toasting these.
What are sesame seeds?
This is the name of the legislative body of Israel.
What is the Knesset?
The Israeli shekel features this special writing system so that it can be more accessible to blind/vision-impared people.
This Israeli television series about the Israel-Palestine conflict has gained immense popularity on Netflix.
What is Fauda?
This is the most widely-spoken language in Israel, aside from English and Israel’s official languages, Hebrew and Arabic. Over 20% of all Israelis are fluent in this language, in large part due to mass immigration from Eastern Europe in the 20th Century.
What is Russian?
During the 1950s, as a result of a rice shortage, Israel farmers developed this type of toasted pasta that continues to be widely used in Israeli cuisine today.
What is Israeli Couscous? (Ptitim)
This person was the first woman to ever hold the position of Prime Minister in Israel.
Who is Golda Meir?
Per capita, Israel has the highest use of this type of assisted reproductive technology, which is done by combining an egg cell with sperm outside of the body, is often used for infertility treatment and gestational surrogacy. This procedure is free in Israel.
What is in-vitro fertilization? (IVF)
On this holiday, all of Israel stands still as sirens wail for one whole minute to remember the men and women who died fighting for Israel in various wars.
What is Yom HaZikaron?
Despite having many holy sites in Israel, this internationally-practiced religion only makes up around 2% of the country’s population.
What is Christianity?
Israelis have some of the lowest rates of peanut allergies in the world due to the wide popularity of this snack.
What is Bamba?
Israel is the only true one of these governmental systems in the Middle East.
What is a democracy?
In 1991, during Operation Solomon, the evacuation of the Jews from Ethiopia, this Israeli airline set the world record for most passengers on an aircraft with over 1,000 people.
What is El Al?
People in Israel typically celebrate this festival by having bonfires.
What is Lag b'Omer?
This is the country that is the source of Israel’s largest amounts of migrants from Africa.
What is Morocco?
The Israeli chocolate brand Parra is known for having a picture of this animal on its wrapper.
What is a cow?
These two men ran against each other in three separate elections and caused a constitutional crisis in Israel. Both men are now the Prime Minister and Alternate Prime Minister (and Minister of Defense) respectively.
Who are Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz?
In 2018, this Israeli singer won the Eurovision Song Contest with Toy, a song with chicken noises and a feminist message.
Who is Netta Barzilai?
Despite only making up around 8% of the Israeli population, this extremely-Orthodox sect of Judaism has an immense influence over the country’s politics.
Who are the Haredim?
This religion’s holiest site is a terraced garden, known as the Shrine of Báb, is located in Haifa.
What is Baháʼí? (also accept Baháʼísm)
Outside of Japan, this Israeli city is home to the most sushi restaurants per capita.
What is Tel Aviv?
This is the name of the political party to which the current Prime Minister is a member of.
What is Likud?