Israel Quiz Questions and Answers
Quiz Questions
- Which city is the capital of Israel?
- What is the official language of Israel?
- Israel has borders with four countries, can you name them?
- Who was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969 and became the world’s second elected female leader in modern times?
- Which freshwater lake in Israel is the lowest freshwater lake on Earth?
- What is the national parliament of Israel called?
- Which ancient port city is famous for its association with oranges?
- Can you name Israel’s national airline?
- Is the population of Israel closer to: (a)9 million, (b)19 million, or (c)29 million?
- What name is given to food prepared in accordance with Jewish Dietary Laws?
- How many days did the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or June War last for?
- What is the currency of Israel?
- In 1952, who was asked to be the president of Israel, but declined?
- Which city is the economic and technological centre of the country?
- Which desert comprises more than half of Israel's total land area?
- Name the rocky plateau in south-western Syria, with a political and strategic significance, which was seized from Syria in the closing stages of the 1967 war?
- Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, which city is the third-largest Israel?
- In which year did Israel celebrate its 50th anniversary?
- Who was the first Prime Minister of the State of Israel?
- How many miles is Israel, east-to-west at its widest point: (a)85 miles, (b)155 miles, or (c)205 miles?
- On which day of the week would you expect many shops to be shut because of the Shabbat, which is the Jewish Sabbath?
- Operation Moses refers to the covert evacuation of Ethiopian Jews in 1984 from which country?
- What name is given to a collective community that was traditionally based on agriculture?
- The 1973 Arab–Israeli War is better kown by what name?
- What colour is the Star of David on the Israeli flag?
Answers:
- Jerusalem
- Hebrew
- Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt.
- Golda Meir
- The Sea of Galilee (The Dead Sea, the lowest point on land on Earth is not freshwater)
- The Knesset
- Jaffa
- El Al
- (a)9 million
- Kosher food
- Six days (it is known as The Six-Day War)
- Israeli new shekel (or Israeli shekel)
- Albert Einstein
- Tel Aviv
- The Negev Desert
- The Golan Heights
- Haifa
- 1998
- David Ben-Gurion
- (a)85 miles
- Saturday
- Sudan
- Kibbutz
- The Yom Kippur War
- Blue (the flag depicts a blue Star of David on a white background, between two horizontal blue stripes)
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