Prime Ministers
This founding father of Israel served as the country’s first prime minister and later returned for a second term in the 1950s.
Who is David Ben-Gurion?
This navigation app, later acquired by Google, crowdsources real-time traffic data and was founded in Israel.
What is Waze?
This period of sustained violence beginning in 1987 is commonly mislabeled as a war, but is more accurately defined as an uprising.
What is The First Intifada?
This northern port city is known for its mixed Jewish–Arab population, the Baháʼí Gardens, and a major Israeli university.
What is Haifa?
This rapper faced widespread backlash in 2022 after posting praise for Adolf Hitler and sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories online.
Who is Kanye (Ye is also acceptable)?
This former general and leader of the Likud party became prime minister in 1977 and signed the Camp David Accords with Egypt.
Who is Menachem Begin?
This Israeli-developed messaging app, later acquired by Facebook, became famous for its end-to-end encryption and refusal to run ads.
What is WhatsApp?
Despite its name and duration, this event is not officially classified by Israel as a war, but rather as a large-scale military operation in Gaza in 2014.
What is Operation Protective Edge?
This Galilee city, known for its artists’ quarter and kabbalistic tradition, became a center of Jewish mysticism in the 16th century.
What is Tzfat?
This professional NBA star was suspended after promoting a film widely criticized for spreading antisemitic tropes.
Who is Kyrie Irving?
This prime minister, formerly a defense minister and IDF chief of staff, signed the Oslo Accords and was assassinated in 1995.
Who is Yitzchak Rabin?
This everyday storage device traces its origins to Israeli company M-Systems, which helped pioneer flash memory technology.
What is the USB key?
This 2008–2009 conflict is often grouped with Israel’s wars, yet Israel formally defines it as a military operation, not a war.
What is Operation Cast Lead?
This desert city, developed largely in the 1950s, became a focal point for Israel’s efforts to populate and develop the Negev.
What is Beersheba?
This British singer has repeatedly called for cultural boycotts of Israel and compared Israeli policy to apartheid.
Who is Roger Water?
This prime minister founded Kadima, suffered a massive stroke in office in 2006, and never formally resigned.
Who is Ariel Sharon?
This agricultural innovation revolutionized global farming by delivering water directly to plant roots, dramatically reducing water waste.
What is drip irrigation?
This war is widely considered Israel’s first major conflict in which non-state actors, asymmetric warfare, and media strategy played a central role alongside conventional fighting.
What is the Second Lebanon War?
Founded as Israel’s first planned garden city, this place later became synonymous with high-tech industry and aerospace research.
What is Rehovot?
This supermodel and TV host has shared social media posts accusing Israel of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Who is Bella Hadid?
This prime minister is the only one to have served while never leading a political party, holding office in the early 1950s during a period dominated by another leader who later returned to power.
Who is Moshe Sharett?
This swallowable medical device, invented in Israel, allows doctors to photograph the digestive tract without surgery.
What is PillCam?
This war shattered Israel’s sense of military invincibility and led directly to the creation of the Agranat Commission.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
This development town in the Negev was originally intended as a major transit hub but instead became a symbol of Israel’s challenges integrating new immigrants in the 1950s.
What is Dimona?
This Marvel actor faced backlash after signing public letters that framed Israel as a settler-colonial state while omitting references to Hamas violence.
Who is Mark Ruffalo?