TAD - Israel Quiz

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Quick Fire Introduction

On what date was the State of Israel declared?

6 June 1947

29 November 1947

5 May 1948

14 May 1948

4 April 1949

In what year did Israel and Egypt sign a peace treaty?

1968

1979

1986

2001

2008

Yasser Arafat was born in which country?

Palestine

Egypt

Jordan

France

USA

Israel pulled out of the Gaza Strip in what year?

2005

2008

2009

2012

2015

What is the political position of the party Yisrael Beiteinu?

Right wing

Left wing

Centrist

Orthodox Jewish

Arab

Naomi Shemer wrote a song about Jerusalem - what was it called?

Ir Ha'Kadosh

Yerushalayim shel Zahav

Lion of Jerusalem

Jerusalem our Capital

Yerushalayim Ir Ha'Atid

Which of these Israeli TV series means 'chaos'?

Shtisel

Fauda

Emek HaBacha

Manayek

Which of these countries does not have a land border with Israel?

Jordan

Egypt

Syria

Lebanon

Cyprus

In the beginning: The origins of Zionism

Zionism was a political movement that was started by Jews:

In Babylon in the dispersion after the destruction of the 2nd Temple

In Palestine as a movement for Jewish self-determination

In Europe as a response to anti-semitism in the late nineteenth century

Globally during the first world war as Jews tried to escape conscription

In North America during the second world war as a response to Nazism

The first big migration (First Aliyah) of Jews to Palestine in modern times occurred:

Around the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the Emancipation

As a result of the liberalisation of Russia under Alexander II in 1860’s

As a result of increased antisemitism in Russia in the 1880’s

As a result of displacement caused in the run up to WW1 in early 1900s

As a result of the increased Nazi persecution of Jews of Europe

The first Zionist Congress was convened by:

Ze’ev Jabotinsky

Theodor Herzl

David Ben Gurion

Leon Pinsker

Chaim Weizmann

The First Zionist Congress was held in:

London

Basel

Budapest

Tel Aviv

Jerusalem

At the sixth Zionist Congress in 1903, the Zionists were offered a homeland in:

North West London

Western Australia

A group of islands off the Eastern Coast of the USA

The Congo

Uganda

What was the Balfour Declaration?

A declaration of Jewish support for Britain during the first world war

A letter written by Jewish leaders asking for support for Jews in Palestine

A letter sent on behalf of the British government supporting the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine

A letter from the Jews of England offering support of Jews for the British war effort

A letter setting out future borders of a Jewish state in Palestine

At the time the Balfour Declaration was sent, Palestine was officially controlled by:

Britain, under an international mandate

The Haganah

The French Empire

The Ottoman Empire

A federation of Arab States

Which of these is not included in the Balfour declaration:

British support for a national home for Jews in Palestine

British support for a national home for Arabs in Palestine

British support for the rights of Jews outside Palestine

British support for the protection of the rights of non-Jews in Palestine

British acknowledgement of the Zionist Federation

When did Britain formally receive the Mandate for Palestine by the international community?

When Allenby marched into Jerusalem in 1917

After the Russian Revolution in 1917

In 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles

In 1920 at the San Remo conference

After the Arab riots broke out in 1929

Operation Magic Carpet was overseen by Ben Gurion in order:

To build housing for new immigrants to Israel

To build transport infrastructure within Israel

To bring the Jews of Yemen to Israel

To bring Holocaust survivors to Israel

To accept German reparations

SY Agnon won the first Nobel prize for Israel in 1956 for:

Peacemaking with the Egyptians

Negotiation of reparations with Europe for antisemitsm

Musical composition

Writing

Peace making with the Palestinians

Put the following in chronological order (earliest to latest):(Click and Drag)

What proportion of Israeli Jews were killed during the War of Independence?

0.00001%

0.01%

0.1%

Who/What/Where/When…

Who was the Prime Minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War?

Golda Meir

Levi Eshkol

Menachem Begin

Yitzchak Rabin

Yitzchak Shamir

What was the name of the Jewish defence force founded in the 1930s, that advocated using violence against the British?

Haganah

Havlagah

The Irgun

Gush Emunim

Kach

Who was Baruch Goldstein?

An American/Israeli settler who murdered worshippers at prayer in Hebron

The founder of the far right Kach movement

The first chief rabbi of Israel

The man who murdered Yitzchak Rabin

A leader of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta movement

Which future Israeli leader was responsible for the bombing of British soldiers stationed in the King David Hotel in 1946?

Ariel Sharon

David Ben Gurion

Menachem Begin

Moshe Dayan

Yitzchak Shamir

Who was the Prime Minister of Israel during the Six Day war?

Golda Meir

Levi Eshkol

David Ben Gurion

Yitzchak Rabin

Yitzchak Shamir

Where and what are Sabra and Shatila?

Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon where a massacre took place in 1982

Popular bars on Gordon Beach in Tel Aviv

Biblical tombs of Elijah and Jeremiah on the outskirts of Jerusalem

The site of famous tank battles from the Yom Kippur War

Egyptian border crossings into Israel and Gaza in the Sinai Peninsula

Hezbollah’s main base is in:

Lebanon

Egypt

Syria

The West Bank

Gaza

What party led Israeli politics for its first decades?

The Likud

Labour party

The Haganah

The Irgun

Zionist Home party

How many members of the Knesset are there?

120

126

130

145

150

Which of these best describes Israeli electoral system?

First past the post system

Proportional representation with thresholds

Absolute proportional representation

Single transferable vote

Two round system

In the next set of questions you'll be asked to identify each of these cities. Take a moment to see the whole map.For the next question, you'll need to refer to the map that was sent to you with the link to this quiz.

On the map, identify which letter on the map is Jerusalem:

On the map, identify which letter on the map is Hebron:

On the map, identify which letter on the map is Haifa:

On the map, identify which letter on the map is Tel Aviv:

On the map, identify which letter on the map is Gaza City:

The following questions are based on figures from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics

Approximately how many Jews live in Israel?

15 million

12 million

10 million

9 million

7 million

Approximately how many Israelis are Arab?

1 million

2 million

3 million

4 million

5 million

What is the religion of most Israeli Arabs?

Sunni muslim

Shia Muslim

Christian

Druze

Bahai

Bedouin

Approximately how many Palestinians live in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem)?

200,000

400,000

1.5 million

3 million

5 million

Approximately how many Jews live in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem)?

100,000

250,000

450,000

750,000

1 million

Approximately what proportion of Israeli Jews would define themselves as Chiloni ‘secular’?

20-30%

31 -40%

41-50%

51-60%

61-70%

Which of these is a translation of a line in Hatikvah?

That all citizens should live free and equally in this land

A nation under God, there of which I stand alone

As long as in the heart within, the Jewish soul yearns

It is glorious and fitting to die for ones country

Which of these songs did not win in the Eurovision competition?

Chai chai chai

Diva

Halleluyah

TOY

A-Ba-Ni-Bi

Who sings the song “Tel Aviv”?

Omer Adam

Tippex

Idan Raichel

Static and Ben El-Tavori

Ofra Haza

Which of these is not a famous author?

Amos Oz

Arik Einstein

Etgar Keret

David Grossman

Shlomo Agnon

Which of these is not usually found in the same famous Israeli snack?

Falafel

Cheese

Cucumber

Pita

Houmous

Which of these is not in Jerusalem?

Dome of the Rock

King David Hotel

The Knesset

Bahai Temple

The Kotel

TAD - Israel Quiz - 2024

Quick Fire Introduction

In the beginning: The origins of Zionism

Good times

Difficult times

Who/What/Where/When…

The following questions are based on figures from the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics