Israel Geography
The Southern most city in Israel located on the gulf of Aquaba and the Red Sea
Eilat
What and year and month did Israel declare Independence
May 14,1948
Israel's 1st Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion
In which olympics were Israeli athletes murdered?
During the 1972 Summer Olympics in Germany, Palestinian gunmen snuck into apartments housing 11 members of the Israeli team, taking them hostage and eventually killing them during a failed rescue operation.
Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq attacked Israel in 1948 during this war.
War of Independence or simply the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
What percentage of the Israeli population was born abroad?
About 27% of the Israeli population was born outside of Israel. Those Israelis come from over 100 different countries.
Israel lies at the junction of three continents: Name them
Europe, Asia and Africa.
First Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel
Egypt, 1979.
Who was the first Israeli prime minister to be born in the land that was to become Israel?
Yitzhak Rabin (1922-95)
a female paratrooper and poet who was captured and killed by the Nazis, and is still a national heroine in Israel. Hannah _______?
Hannah Szenes
Which countries did Israel fight in the '67 Six-Day War?
The war was fought between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
What percent of the Israeli population is Jewish?
Israel's population is about 75 percent Jewish; most of the rest is Arab.
How long does it take to drive the length and / or the width of Israel?
Israel width is about 30 minutes drive and length from top to bottom is about 7 hours drive.
The Oslo Accords was Israel make peace with this Arab country in 1994?
Jordan.
He is one a famous former Soviet activist for Soviet Jews and later, an Israeli politician. Natan______?
Natan Sharansky
The name of the Egyptian-born Israeli who is best known for his work as a spy in 1961–65 in Syria.
Eli ______?
Eli Cohen
Which 1973 war began with a surprise joint attack by Egypt and Syria?
Yom Kippur war
How many Israelis live on the West Bank?
Some estimates are as many as 500,000.
Where in Israel is The Gaza Strip is situated?
The Gaza Strip is situated along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula.
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 when he was released as part of a prisoner exchange.
Gilad _________?
Gilad Shalit
A) The location of the 1976 rescue operation conducted by the IDF to recover a plane hijacked by terrorists in Uganda.
B) Who was the only Israeli to die in the operation.
A) Operation Entebbe.
B) Yoni Netanyahu.
What is the name of the first large-scale Palestinian uprising against Israel in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip?
The first I________?
First Intifada (1987–1993)
How many Israeli Jews self-identified as secular?
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').
What is the name for Israel’s capital city?
While some countries refuse to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Israel's capital city is Jerusalem.
What do the letters PLO stand for and why was it created in June 2, 1964?
The Palestine Liberation Organization was founded to mobilize the Palestinian people to recover their homeland
An Israeli Prime Minister who led the Irgun - a Jewish underground millitary movement in Palestine during the British rule. He later signed the Peace Treaty with Egypt. Menachem_________?
Menachem Begin.
Which Jewish army officer was wrongly convicted of espionage in France 1894?
The _________ Affair?
Captain Alfred Dreyfus was convicted by a military court for supposedly selling French military secrets to the Germans.
Israel had an embassy in this country until this country had a revolution in 1979
Iran
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.