Israeli Geography

Israeli Geography

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  1. Complete the sentence about Jerusalem with the correct year: One of Israel's Basic Laws, the ______ Jerusalem Law, refers to Jerusalem as the country's undivided capital.
  2. Complete the sentence about Jerusalem with the correct year: In ______ the city walls were rebuilt for a last time around Jerusalem under Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.
  3. Complete the sentence about Haifa with the correct year: During and after the Battle of Haifa in the ______ Palestine war, most of the city's Arab population fled or were expelled and the Old City was…
  4. Complete the sentence about Rishon LeZion with the correct year: Under Rothschild's patronage, the Carmel-Mizrahi Winery was, established in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Rishon LeZion with the correct year: The Baron Edmond James de Rothschild and his wife Adelheid von Rothschild came to visit the village a year later in ______.
  6. Complete the sentence about Rishon LeZion with the correct year: In ______, Shmuel Cohen, a young resident of Rishon with a musical background, observed the emotional response of the local Jewish farm…
  7. Complete the sentence about Ashdod with the correct year: Modern Ashdod was established in ______ on the sand hills 6 kilometers northwest of the ancient city of Ashdod, known in modern times by its A…
  8. Complete the sentence about Netanya with the correct year: On December 14, ______, a team led by Moshe Shaked began digging for water at the site.
  9. Complete the sentence about Netanya with the correct year: After water was discovered in February ______, the first five settlers moved onto the land.
  10. Complete the sentence about Be'er Sheva with the correct year: Beersheba had been almost entirely Muslim, and the ______ UN Partition Plan designated it to be part of the Arab state.
  11. Complete the sentence about Holon with the correct year: The Samaritan neighborhood of Neve Pinchas, established in ______, has its own synagogues and street signs in Samaritan Hebrew.
  12. Complete the sentence about Holon with the correct year: In February ______, a Palestinian terrorist attack at a crowded bus stop in Holon killed eight Israeli civilians and injured twenty-five.
  13. Complete the sentence about Bnei Brak with the correct year: In ______, the Great Synagogue was completed, and the village committee celebrated its inauguration by presenting statistics noting its dev…
  14. Complete the sentence about Bnei Brak with the correct year: In the summer of ______, Bnei Brak was connected to the electricity grid.
  15. Complete the sentence about Bnei Brak with the correct year: In the ______ census of Palestine, the population of Benei Beraq was 956, all Jewish, in 255 houses.
  16. Complete the sentence about Ramat Gan with the correct year: Ramat Gan was established in ______ as a moshava, a communal farming settlement.
  17. Complete the sentence about Ramat Gan with the correct year: Ramat Gan was established by the Ir Ganim association in ______ as a satellite town of Tel Aviv.
  18. Complete the sentence about Ramat Gan with the correct year: In ______, the municipal area of Ramat Gan expanded eastward, to encompass the area that includes the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer…
  19. Complete the sentence about Ramat Gan with the correct year: In ______, the world's largest diamond exchange opened in Ramat Gan.
  20. Complete the sentence about Ashkelon with the correct year: The modern city is named after the ancient seaport of Ascalon, which was destroyed in ______ and whose remains are on the southwestern edge…
  21. Complete the sentence about Ashkelon with the correct year: In ______, the Mamluk sultan Baybars ordered the fortifications and harbour of Ascalon to be destroyed.
  22. Complete the sentence about Rehovot with the correct year: In March ______, a dispute over pasture rights erupted between the residents of Rehovot and the neighboring village of Zarnuqa, which took tw…
  23. Complete the sentence about Rehovot with the correct year: The first citrus grove was planted by Zalman Minkov in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Rehovot with the correct year: The Great Synagogue of Rehovot was established in ______, during the First Aliyah period.
  25. Complete the sentence about Rehovot with the correct year: Only a few dozen Yemenite families had settled in Rehovot by ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Bat Yam with the correct year: In September ______, an urban blueprint was approved by the association.
  27. Complete the sentence about Bat Yam with the correct year: In the wake of the ______ Arab riots, the residents were evacuated by the British army and their homes turned into barracks.
  28. Complete the sentence about Bat Yam with the correct year: In November ______, 85 families were living in the neighborhood.
  29. Complete the sentence about Herzliya with the correct year: On 11 March ______, a bus hijacking by Fatah led to the Coastal Road Massacre, in which 38 Israeli civilians were killed at the Glilot Junct…
  30. Complete the sentence about Kfar Saba with the correct year: The Jewish moshav of Kfar Saba was established in ______, following the purchase of land from the Arab village of the same name.
  31. Complete the sentence about Kfar Saba with the correct year: Starting in ______, Jewish workers resided on the site of Kfar Saba.
  32. Complete the sentence about Kfar Saba with the correct year: In ______, an Arab guard employed by Jewish landowners shot at a group of Arab almond thieves from Qalqilya, killing one.
  33. Complete the sentence about Hadera with the correct year: Hadera was established in ______ as a farming colony by members of the proto-Zionist group Hovevei Zion, from Lithuania and Latvia.
  34. Complete the sentence about Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut with the correct year: The project of founding nearby Re'ut, led by an association of Israeli army officers, started in ______.
  35. Complete the sentence about Eilat with the correct year: The area was designated as part of the Jewish state in the ______ UN Partition Plan.
  36. Complete the sentence about Eilat with the correct year: Eilat Airport was built in ______ and individual ships began arriving in the 1950s, but as there were no dedicated port facilities they unloade…
  37. Complete the sentence about Tiberias with the correct year: After the Galilee earthquake of ______, the city was rebuilt and grew steadily following the First Jewish Aliyah in the 1880s.
  38. Complete the sentence about Safed with the correct year: Safed attained local prominence under the Crusaders, who built a large fortress there in ______.
  39. Complete the sentence about Acre, Israel with the correct year: Acre is first recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs in the execration texts c. ______ BC by the name ʿky, reconstructed by Anson F.
  40. Complete the sentence about Nahariya with the correct year: The city was founded in ______ by Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.
  41. Complete the sentence about Nahariya with the correct year: The first residents, two German immigrant couples, permanently settled in Nahariya on February 10, ______, which is now considered the offic…
  42. Complete the sentence about Nahariya with the correct year: By the end of ______ approximately 40 pioneers had settled in Nahariya.
  43. Complete the sentence about Afula with the correct year: A small Arab Palestinian village during the Ottoman period, it was sold in ______ along with the entire Jezreel Valley to the Lebanese Sursock…
  44. Complete the sentence about Afula with the correct year: In ______, the same area was acquired by the American Zionist Commonwealth as part of the Sursock Purchase.
  45. Complete the sentence about Afula with the correct year: After the establishment of the State of Israel in ______, Afula was settled by Jewish immigrants from Iraq, Yemen and Romania.
  46. Complete the sentence about Afula with the correct year: The first excavations at Tel ʿAfula, carried out in ______, found Late Chalcolithic– Early Bronze Age remains.
  47. Complete the sentence about Kiryat Shmona with the correct year: The first residents were fourteen Yemenite Jews who arrived on July 18, ______, and were followed by more Yemenis a month later.
  48. Complete the sentence about Arad, Israel with the correct year: After attempts to settle the area in the 1920s, Arad was founded in November ______ as an Israeli development town, the first planned ci…
  49. Complete the sentence about Sderot with the correct year: Sderot was founded in ______ as a transit camp for Jewish immigrants, primarily from Kurdistan and Iran.
  50. Complete the sentence about Sderot with the correct year: In the ______ census, North African immigrants, mostly from Morocco, made up 87% of the population, with 11% from Kurdistan.
  51. Complete the sentence about Sderot with the correct year: A number of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip were resettled in Sderot beginning in ______ after cooperating with the Shin Bet.
  52. Complete the sentence about Sderot with the correct year: In May ______, a significant increase in shelling from Gaza prompted the temporary evacuation of thousands of residents.
  53. Complete the sentence about Sea of Galilee with the correct year: Archaeologists discovered one such boat, nicknamed the Jesus Boat, in ______.
  54. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: Lynch's ______ book Narrative of the United States' Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea is available online.
  55. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: In ______, Israel began operating a pumping station that diverts water from the Sea of Galilee to the National Water Carrier.
  56. Complete the sentence about Jordan River with the correct year: The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1.3 billion cubic metres per year; as of ______, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year…
  57. Complete the sentence about Mount Carmel with the correct year: In ______, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added the sites of human evolution at Mount Carmel to the List of World Heritage Sites.
  58. Complete the sentence about Galilee with the correct year: The region's Arabic name is الجليل, Al-Jalil, meaning "illustrious" or "grand", and the ______ Palestine Exploration Fund survey says it is d…
  59. Complete the sentence about Golan Heights with the correct year: In ______, during the first Trump administration, the United States became the first country to recognize the Golan Heights as part of…
  60. Complete the sentence about Ramon Crater with the correct year: The site was excavated by several archaeologists, and declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in ______.
  61. Complete the sentence about Jordan Rift Valley with the correct year: The rift valley was struck by the ______ Jordan Valley earthquake, believed to have been produced along the DST fault system.
  62. Complete the sentence about Jordan Rift Valley with the correct year: The ______ AD event was the last large earthquake on the Jordan Valley Fault.
  63. Complete the sentence about Hula Valley with the correct year: In ______, the Ottoman government granted a concession to drain the marsh to a French firm, which sold it to Lebanese businessmen.
  64. Complete the sentence about Mediterranean Sea with the correct year: Around ______ BC the eastern Mediterranean was greatly affected by the Bronze Age Collapse, which resulted in the destruction of ma…
  65. Complete the sentence about Gulf of Aqaba with the correct year: Movement on one of these faults caused the ______ Gulf of Aqaba earthquake.
  66. Complete the sentence about Old City with the correct year: The Old City, along with its walls, was added to the World Heritage Site list of UNESCO in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Old City with the correct year: During the ______ Six-Day War, Israel occupied East Jerusalem; since then, the entire city has been under Israeli control.
  68. Complete the sentence about Old City with the correct year: Israel unilaterally asserted in its ______ Jerusalem Law that the whole of Jerusalem was Israel's capital.
  69. Complete the sentence about Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the correct year: The church and rotunda were built under Constantine the Great in the 4th century, confirmed by scientific testing, and d…
  70. Complete the sentence about Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the correct year: Al-Hakim's son allowed Emperor Constantine IX Monomachos to reconstruct the church, which was completed in ______.
  71. Complete the sentence about Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the correct year: The Status Quo, an understanding between religious communities dating to ______, applies to the site.
  72. Complete the sentence about Al-Aqsa Mosque with the correct year: After the area was conquered by Saladin in ______, the structure's function as a mosque was restored.
  73. Complete the sentence about Yad Vashem with the correct year: Yad Vashem was first proposed in September ______, at a board meeting of the Jewish National Fund, by Mordecai Shenhavi, a member of Kibbu…
  74. Complete the sentence about Yad Vashem with the correct year: In August ______, the plan was discussed in greater detail at a Zionist meeting in London.
  75. Complete the sentence about Yad Vashem with the correct year: In February ______, Yad Vashem opened an office in Jerusalem and a branch office in Tel Aviv, and in June that year convened its first ple…
  76. Complete the sentence about Yad Vashem with the correct year: In July ______, the First Conference on Holocaust Research was held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  77. Complete the sentence about Knesset with the correct year: The main building was financed by James de Rothschild as a gift to the State of Israel in his will and was completed in ______.
  78. Complete the sentence about Israel Museum with the correct year: From ______, the museum was housed in a series of masonry buildings designed by the Russian-born Israeli architect Alfred Mansfeld.
  79. Complete the sentence about Bahá'í World Centre with the correct year: The Baháʼí World Centre was established at this location due to Baháʼu'lláh's imprisonment in Acre in ______.
  80. Complete the sentence about Bahá'í World Centre with the correct year: The Baháʼí terraces and the Shrine of the Báb on the northern slope of Mount Carmel were added to the World Heritage List in July…
  81. Complete the sentence about Bahá'í World Centre with the correct year: Baháʼu'lláh was banished from Persia by Nasser al-Din Shah in ______, at which time Baháʼu'lláh went to Baghdad in the Ottoman Em…
  82. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Baháʼu'lláh died in ______ near Acre, and his resting place is in Bahji.
  83. Complete the sentence about Tel Hazor with the correct year: Initial soundings were carried out by John Garstang in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Tel Hazor with the correct year: Yadin returned to Hazor for a final season of excavation in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Tel Hazor with the correct year: Excavation at the site by Hebrew University, joined by the Complutense University of Madrid, resumed in ______ under Amnon Ben-Tor.
  86. Complete the sentence about Beit She'an with the correct year: In ______, 98% of the population was Jewish and 2% was counted as other.
  87. Complete the sentence about Qumran with the correct year: Since the ______ Six-Day War, Qumran has been managed by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority.
  88. Complete the sentence about Qumran with the correct year: The initial attention of the early explorers was focused on the cemetery, beginning with de Saulcy in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Dead Sea Scrolls with the correct year: On 11 April ______, Millar Burrows, head of the ASOR, announced the discovery of the scrolls in a general press release.
  90. Complete the sentence about Mitzpe Ramon with the correct year: Mitzpe Ramon was founded in ______ as a camp for the workers building Highway 40.
  91. Complete the sentence about Mitzpe Ramon with the correct year: The town's first permanent residents, several young families from Kibbutz Re'im and other parts of Israel began settling there in ______…
  92. Complete the sentence about Mitzpe Ramon with the correct year: The town further grew after Ramon Airbase was completed in ______.
  93. Complete the sentence about Ben Gurion Airport with the correct year: Known as Lod Airport until ______, it was renamed that year in honour of David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, followin…
  94. Complete the sentence about Ben Gurion Airport with the correct year: The airport was built in ______ during the British Mandate and served as a Royal Air Force station during the Second World War.
  95. Complete the sentence about Port of Haifa with the correct year: When the Crusaders conquered Haifa in the year ______, it became an important town and the main port for Tiberias, the capital of the G…
  96. Complete the sentence about Israel Railways with the correct year: Electrification began in ______ with the new line to Jerusalem and there are plans to electrify the entire network at 25 kV 50 Hz sup…
  97. Complete the sentence about Israel Railways with the correct year: Until ______, the company's head office was located at Haifa Center HaShmona railway station.
  98. Complete the sentence about Jerusalem Light Rail with the correct year: In ______, a tender for a tramway was published by the Ottoman authorities.
  99. Complete the sentence about Tel Aviv Light Rail with the correct year: A light rail line, with a route similar to the current Red Line, was planned in ______ by Pinhas Rutenberg.
  100. Complete the sentence about Israel with the correct year: The movement gained British support with the ______ Balfour Declaration.

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