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100

The Western Wall is located in this Israeli city.

What is Jerusalem

100

The modern State of Israel was created in this year.

What is 1948?


100

This popular Israeli food is traditionally served in pita with salad and hummus.

What is falafel?

100

This last remaining part of the ancient Temple in Jerusalem is still a holy site where Jews go to pray.

What is the Western Wall (or wailing Wall or Kotel)?

100

This useful Hebrew word means Hello, Goodbye and Peace.

What is Shalom?


200

This modern Israeli city on has tall buildings, businesses, hotels, restaurants, nightlife and beautiful beaches on the Mediterranean Sea.

What is Tel Aviv?

200

This ancient Jewish language was resurrected by Eliezer Ben Yehudah. 

What is Hebrew? 


200

This Israeli circle dance is a highlight at many Jewish weddings and b'nah mitzvah celebrations.

What is the hora?

200

This body of water has such a high salt content that everything (including people) floats in it!

What is the Dead Sea?

200

This Hebrew word means "Quiet."

What is Sheket?

300

This body of water borders Israel's western coast with beaches.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

300

This man is currently the Prime minister of Israel.

Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?

300

It is traditional to write a prayer on a piece of paper and place it here.

What is (a crack in) the Western Wall?

300

This is the name of the holocaust museum in Jerusalem.

What is Yad Vashem?

300

This is the Hebrew name for Jerusalem.

What is Yerushalayim?

400

This small strip of land on Israel's Mediterranean coast is now a self-governing Palestinian occupied territory.

What is Gaza (or the Gaza Strip)?

400

She was Israel's first and only woman prime minister.

Who is Golda Meir?

400

This Israeli airline has its home base at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

What is El Al?

400

This modern building in Jerusalem is the home of Israel's parliament.

What is the Knesset?

400

This Hebrew word, which means "The Hope," is Israel's national anthem.

What is HaTikvah?

500

These are the four Arab nations surrounding Israel.

What are Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt?

500

This was the biblical name of the land of Israel.

What is Canaan?

500

This is what Israelis call a small living community where people live and work together.

What is a kibbutz?

500

This famous mountaintop fortification in Israel's desert was the site of a Roman siege in 73 CE that ended in the mass suicide of 960 people.

What is Masada?

500

The title of this famous Israeli song, which is danced to at many Jewish celebrations, means "Let us rejoice."

What is "Hava Nagila"?