Israel Sport
This Israeli basketball club, known for its dominance in European competitions, has won multiple EuroLeague championships.
What is Maccabi Tel Aviv?
What and year and day did Israel declare Independence
May 14,1948
What act/yoga pose was David Ben Gurion known for?
Headstands
In which olympics were 11 Israeli athletes murdered?
During the Summer Olympics in Munich, Palestinian gunmen sneak into apartments housing 11 members of the Israeli team, taking them hostage and eventually killing them during a failed rescue operation.
Which countries did Israel fight in Six-Day War (June 1967)?
The war was fought between Israel and Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
what part of the Israeli population was born in Israel.
About two-thirds of the Israeli population was born in Israel. All other Israelis come from over 100 different countries.
This Israeli NBA player was drafted 9th overall by the Washington Wizards in 2020.
Who is Deni Avdija?
First Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel
Egypt
Who was the first Israeli prime minister to be born in the land that was to become Israel?
Yitzhak Rabin (1922-95)
a paratrooper and poet who was captured and killed by the Nazis, and who is still a national heroine in Israel.
Hannah Szenes
Which war began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria?
Yom Kippur war
What percent of the Israeli population is Jewish?
Israel's population is about 75 percent Jewish; most of the rest is Arab.
This Israeli Yarden Gerbi won a bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics, becoming the first Israeli woman to win an Olympic medal in what sport?.
What is Judo?
The Oslo Accords made peace with this country and in what year?
Jordan, 1994.
He is one a famous former Soviet activist for Soviet Jews and an Israeli politician, author and human rights activist.
Natan Sharansky
The name of the Egyptian-born Israeli spy who is best known for his espionage work in 1961–65 in Syria
Eli Cohen
What is the name of the first large-scale Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and how many years did it last?
First Intifada (1987–1993)
How many inhabitants live in The Palestinian territories and what percent are Jewish?
The Palestinian territories, which are occupied by Israel, have some 3.5 million inhabitants—about 11 percent Jewish, 89 percent Palestinian.
This Israeli athlete was the first to ever win an Olympic gold medal for Israel.
Who is Gal Fridman? (Gold in windsurfing, 2004 Athens Olympics)
What was the name of the criminal who was executed after having been found guilty by an Israeli court of crimes against humanity.
Adolf Eichmann
He is an Israeli soldier who was captured and held by Palestinian militants from June 2006 to October 2011.
Gilad Shalit
The name of the operation conducted in Uganda where the IDF rescued a plane hijacked by terrorists. Who was the Ugandan dictator and the only Israeli to die in the operation.
Operation Entebbe. Idi Amin Dada, Yoni Netanyahu.
Israel had an embassy in this country until this country had a revolution in 1979
Iran
How many Israeli Jews self-identified as ultra-orthodox?
In 2022, 45% of Israel Jews self-identified as "secular"; 10% as haredi (ultra-orthodox); 33% as masorti ('traditional'); and 12% as dati ('religious' or 'orthodox').
The Institute of Physical Education, the national sports center which includes an elite school for gifted young sports students and the Department of Sports Medicine, a world leader.
What is Wingate
What do the letters PLO stand for ?
The Palestine Liberation Organization
Israel’s first non-Labor Prime Minister who led the Irgun - a Jewish right-wing underground movement in Palestine during the British rule
Menachem Begin.
Which Jewish army officer was wrongly convicted of espionage in 1894?
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted by a military court for supposedly selling French military secrets to the Germans.
The Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War (1990–91), was an international conflict triggered by what?
Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. in order to acquire the nation’s large oil reserves, cancel a large debt Iraq owed Kuwait, and expand Iraqi power in the region.
What does Israel recycles 90% of (making it the leading nation for that kind of recycling)?
Israel recycles 90% of the waste water it creates, making it the leading nation in the world for water recycling. In the United States, only 1% of wastewater is recycled.