Attractions
This body of water (the lowest on Earth) is so salty you can effortlessly float in it.
What is the Dead Sea?
This popular GPS-based navigation app that provides real-time traffic updates was developed in Israel.
What is Waze?
This popular street food consists of a fried chickpea ball served in a pita with salad and tahini.
What is falafel?
This founding father served as Israel’s first Prime minister. He now has an airport named after him in Israel.
Who was David Ben-Gurion?
By law, every new building in Israel must have one of these reinforced rooms to protect against attacks.
What is a bomb shelter?
This ancient limestone wall in Jerusalem is a remnant of the Temple Mount and a massive site of prayer.
Fun fact: it is disrespectful to turn your back on it (like turning your back on God). You see many people walking backwards away from it.
What is the Western Wall?
This instant messaging app was created by Israeli programmers and sold to Facebook for $19 billion.
What is WhatsApp?
This song, written in 1878 by a Jewish poet living in Romania, was officially adopted as the Israeli national Anthem in 2004.
What is Hatikvah (the hope)?
In this war, Israel fought a coalition of Arab states including Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, ultimately prevailing and gaining control of the Golan Heights, West Bank, Sinai Peninsula, and Gaza Strip.
What is the Six-Day War?
This tentacled animal heads to Israeli beaches by the millions in June.
What are jellyfish?
This Israeli city, known for its coastal metropolis, architecture, and vibrant nightlife, is known as the White City.
What is Tel Aviv?
Two Israeli entrepreneurs, Dov Moran and Amir Ban, are credited with developing this device (Hint: their company was later acquired by SanDisk).
What is a USB flashdrive?
Eden Golan performed this song about October 7th in Eurovision 2024, ultimately winning second place in the public vote and fifth place overall.
What is Hurricane?
This ancient Israelite king, characterized by his determination, killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins.
Who was King David?
This Israeli national airline is known for its stringent security protocols and the only one in the world that fits aircraft with missile defense systems. After October 7th, they brought back thousands of Israelis who wanted to aid their country.
What is El Al?
This museum recently reached the milestone of identifying 5 million Holocaust victims.
What is Yad Vashem?
This company significantly utilizes Israeli technology and research, particularly for microchip production.
What is Apple? (this makes it a little more complicated to boycott Israeli products!)
These collective settlements, usually agricultural, are a form of mini communism- all wealth is held in common. Many immigrants to Israel first come to live here.
What are kibbutzim?
The famous siege of this desert fortress ended in 73 CE, symbolizing the last stand of Jewish rebels against the Romans.
What is Masada?
What is the name of the integral part of the Arab Palestinian minority who are citizens of Israel? (Hint: they are known for being settled in villages linked by tribe systems and being herders)
Who are Bedouins?
This holy place is considered the site of Jesus’ crucifixion and the Tomb of Jesus.
What is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?
Israel uses this method (multiple correct answers) to overcome the fact that it is in a desert with a severe water crisis.
What is
- Drip irrigation (delivers water directly to plant roots)
- Desalination (making sea water usable)
- Wastewater recycling (90% of wastewater is reused in agricultural irrigation)
In the early 1990s, Jewish immigrants from this country had a mass Aliyah to Israel, influencing Israeli culture. This led to a mass housing crisis, prompting the government to institute mass programs for construction of new residential buildings, as well as multiple caravan sites.
What is Russia?
This 1979 peace treaty, signed by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, was the first between Israel and an Arab country.
What is the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty?
This place of instruction, created after 1948, is designed to teach adult immigrants to Israel the basic language skills and culture necessary in Israel, to help new citizens integrate as quickly and easily as possible.
What is Ulpan?