Tonight and tomorrow mark Yom Haatzmaut, Israel Independence Day. Like most Israelis, we will be invited to a family barbecue. Today my seven-year-old opened the encyclopedia and we came up with questions for a quiz game to bring along. The questions vary in difficulty for a mixed-age group. How many can you get?
Questions:
- One what date was the State of Israel declared?
- On what day of the week?
- In what building and in which city?
- Who declared independence?
- What was the prior position of the first prime minister?
- In what year was the Law of Return passed (that guaranteed citizenship to all Jews moving to Israel)?
- In what month and year was Tzahal (the Israeli army) founded? How many enlistees were there at that time?
- When did elections for the first Knesset (parliament) take place?
- Name the four largest parties in the first Knesset.
- How long did the first coalition last? (Hint: Things haven’t changed.)
- What major issue was debated during the Second Knesset (1951-1952)?
- What number Knesset is the current one?
Answers:
- May 14, 1948 or 5 Iyar 5708
- Friday
- Dizengoff Museum, Tel Aviv
- David Ben Gurion
- Head of the Jewish Agency (David Ben Gurion)
- 1951
- June 1948, more than 100,000.
- June 25, 1949.
- Mapai, Mapam, United Religious Front, and Herut.
- One and a half years.
- Whether to accept reparations from Germany for the Holocaust.
- 18.
Enjoy the holiday, however you are celebrating. Chag sameach.
Photo credit: Ron Almog
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May 16, 1948 or 5 Iyar 5708[space]
It was Friday, May 14‘th, 1948.
Mark, I was just checking if anyone was paying attention.
I was
Layla Tov for me, Boker Tov for you! And … Chag Sameach!!
Mark
Well, I knew some (like it was Friday in Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion….)
Some someone who never went to school here, I didn’t do too bad….
I got some, not all, but I didn’t go to school here either.
Have fun today everyone!
now i don’t feel so bad that i didn’t know all the answers:
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great picture! I have not been able to snap good pictures of fireworks.
LoZ, I saw that. I was surprised by what some of my kids knew. They don’t learn citizenship till 12th grade, and they aren’t allowed to learn history before sixth as supposedly they are not developmentally ready.
Ariella, that is not my picture! Credit is at the bottom of the post.