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What is the Negev
This geographical landscape takes up 55% of the country
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What is Mount of Olives
This mountain is the longest continuously used cemetery in the world
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Who is Ben Gurion
I have a university named after me
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What is Tzuk Eitan
This operation was the most recent time that Israel entered into Gaza
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What is Waze
This Israeli-developed app was bought out by Google in 2013 for $966 million
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What is Haifa
This port city has been compared to San Francisco- its sister city
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What is the Exodus
This ship carried 4,500 Jewish immigrants into British Mandate Palestine in 1947
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Who is Natan Sharansky
This refusnik- after spending time in the Gulag became the head of the Jewish Agency
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What is Bamba
Due to this snack, Israeli children are 10x less likely to suffer from peanut allergies
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What is Fur
What product did the Israeli fashion industry recently take a stance against by banning its use
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What is Bahai
Akko and Haifa are regarded as holy cities for this faith
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Who is Alfred Dreyfus
It took the French Army until 1995 to declare him innocent, 101 years after he was convicted of treason
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Who is Moses Montefiore
He built the first Jewish residential area outside of the Old City of Jerusalem
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What is Be'er Sheva
This Southern city has the largest number of chess grandmasters per capita in the world
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What is a Sabra
With my smooth but spiky skin and colorful insides, I am a symbol for native born Israelis
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What is Mount Meron
Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, the author of the Zohar is buried on this mountain
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What is Lochamei Hageta’ot
Built by individuals who fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, this is the first Holocaust Museum in the world
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Who is Amare Stoudemire
This NBA Rookie of the Year in 2003 recently completed his conversion to Judaism
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What is Operation Entebbe
Led by the brother of a famous politician, this operation “took flight” in another country
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What is Sabich
Made with Eggplant, egg, tahina and hummus, this is one of the only indigenous dishes to Israel
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What are Kibbutzim
This community style was originally used as the border for Israel
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What is ה באייר
This is the Hebrew date of the Israeli Declaration of Independence
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Who is Trumpeldor
This one armed Zionist icon is known to have said “tov lamut be’ad artzeinu” (its good to die on behlaf of your country) on his death bed
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Who are the Shomronim
This community who believe they are the true Israelites still sacrifice a lamb on Passover
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What is the Nobel Prize
This prize has been won by Israel more times than any other Middle East Country combined
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