Israeli Geography

Israeli Geography

154 practice questions, each with the answer and an explanation.

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  1. Complete the sentence about Israel with the correct year: The ______ UN Partition Plan proposed separate Arab and Jewish states.
  2. Complete the sentence about Israel with the correct year: Civil war followed, and Israel declared independence on 14 May ______, shortly before the end of the mandate.
  3. Complete the sentence about Israel with the correct year: The ______ armistice left Israel controlling more territory than had been allocated to it under the UN partition plan.
  4. Complete the sentence about Geography of Israel with the correct year: The entire Jordan Valley segment is thought to have ruptured repeatedly, for instance during the last two major earthquakes along…
  5. Complete the sentence about Districts of Israel with the correct year: The present division into districts was established in ______, to replace the divisions inherited from the British Mandate.
  6. Complete the sentence about Districts of Israel with the correct year: The territory has been under Israeli control since the ______ Six-Day War but not annexed by Israel, pending negotiations regardi…
  7. Complete the sentence about Kibbutz with the correct year: Though Baratz and others wanted to farm the land themselves, becoming independent farmers was not a realistic option in ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Kibbutz with the correct year: In ______, Baratz, nine other men, and two women established themselves at the southern end of the Sea of Galilee near the Arab village of Um…
  9. Complete the sentence about Kibbutz with the correct year: Despite the difficulties, by ______, Degania had fifty members.
  10. Complete the sentence about Rothschild Boulevard with the correct year: One house, on the corner of Rothschild Boulevard and Herzl Street, was built in ______, by the Eliavson family, one of Tel Aviv'…
  11. Complete the sentence about Rothschild Boulevard with the correct year: The ______, Lederberg house at the intersection with Allenby Street features a series of large ceramic murals designed by Ze'ev…
  12. Complete the sentence about Rothschild Boulevard with the correct year: In ______, Absolut Vodka introduced a specially designed bottle dedicated to Tel Aviv as part of its international cities series…
  13. Complete the sentence about White City, Tel Aviv with the correct year: The concept for a new garden city, to be called Tel Aviv, was developed on the sand dunes outside Jaffa in ______.
  14. Complete the sentence about White City, Tel Aviv with the correct year: But by ______, many Jewish architects of the Bauhaus school in Germany, like Arieh Sharon, had fled to the British Mandate of Pa…
  15. Complete the sentence about Azrieli Center with the correct year: Entrepreneur David Azrieli first approached the municipality in ______ and proposed establishing the project.
  16. Complete the sentence about Dizengoff Street with the correct year: A Hamas suicide bus bombing killed 23 people on 19 October ______.
  17. Complete the sentence about Mahane Yehuda Market with the correct year: In ______ the neighborhood of Mahane Yehuda was established on the north side of Jaffa Road.
  18. Complete the sentence about Mahane Yehuda Market with the correct year: On the south side of the street to the west stood another neighborhood, Beit Ya'akov, founded in ______.
  19. Complete the sentence about Ein Avdat with the correct year: After the establishment of Kibbutz Sde Boker in ______ and the construction of Highway 40 to Eilat, a hiking trail was created.
  20. Complete the sentence about Sharon plain with the correct year: Prior to ______, the region was subordinate to Jaffa Subdistrict and Tulkarm Subdistrict.
  21. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Arabian oryx was extinct in the wild by the early 1970s, but was saved in zoos and private reserves, and was reintroduced into the w…
  22. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The name "oryx" was introduced by Peter Simon Pallas in ______ for the common eland as Antilope oryx.
  23. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville subdivided the antelope group, adopted Oryx as a genus name, and changed the species name…
  24. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: In ______, Martin Lichtenstein confused matters by transferring the name Oryx leucoryx to the scimitar oryx, now Oryx dammah.
  25. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: The Zoological Society of London obtained the first living individual in Europe in ______.
  26. Complete the sentence about Arabian oryx with the correct year: Oldfield Thomas renamed the scimitar oryx as Oryx algazal in ______ and gave the Arabian oryx its original name.
  27. Complete the sentence about National Water Carrier with the correct year: While preliminary plans were made before the establishment of the State of Israel, detailed planning began after Israeli indep…
  28. Complete the sentence about National Water Carrier with the correct year: The National Water Carrier was inaugurated in ______, with 80% of its water being allocated to agriculture and 20% for drinkin…
  29. Complete the sentence about Ashkelon National Park with the correct year: In ______, Lady Hester Stanhope's expedition to Ascalon constituted the first modern archaeological excavation in Palestine.
  30. Complete the sentence about Ashkelon National Park with the correct year: In ______, the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem began excavations at Ascalon, focusing on the same columns and semi…
  31. Complete the sentence about Ashkelon National Park with the correct year: In ______, Harvard University archaeologist Lawrence Stager led an excavation of the seaport.
  32. Complete the sentence about Ashdod-Yam with the correct year: Despite the antiquity of the place, the name Ashdod-yam was applied to the site and adjacent town in October ______, by Israel's Governmen…
  33. Which place completes this sentence about Holon? Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after ______.
  34. Which place completes this sentence about Ramat Gan? Ramat Gan was established by the Ir Ganim association in 1921 as a satellite town of ______.
  35. Which place completes this sentence about Kfar Saba? During World War I, the town took in about a thousand Jewish refugees of the ______ and Jaffa deportation.
  36. Which place completes this sentence about Tiberias? A major Jewish center during Late Antiquity, it has been considered since the 18th century one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with ______, Heb…
  37. Which place completes this sentence about Ramla? Later that century, it became the centre of a lordship in the Kingdom of ______, a crusader state established by Godfrey of Bouillon.
  38. Which place completes this sentence about Mount Carmel? A number of towns are situated there, most notably ______, Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes.
  39. Which place completes this sentence about Mount Carmel? There is also a small kibbutz called Beit Oren, which is located on one of the highest points in the range to the southeast of ______.
  40. Which place completes this sentence about Negev? Some 350 to 500 Nubian ibex live in the Negev Highlands and in the ______ Mountains.
  41. Which place completes this sentence about Jordan Rift Valley? In late 2020, researchers at ______ University said that an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 is expected to occur in the area, resulting in man…
  42. Which place completes this sentence about Gulf of Aqaba? About 250,000 dives are performed annually in ______'s 11 km coastline, and diving represents 10% of the tourism income of this area.
  43. Which place completes this sentence about Old City? The Old City's current layout has been documented in significant detail, notably in old maps of ______ over the last 1,500 years.
  44. Which place completes this sentence about Old City? Until the mid-19th century, the entire city of ______, with the exception of David's Tomb complex, was enclosed within the Old City walls.
  45. Which place completes this sentence about Bahá'í World Centre? The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, representing sites in or near t…
  46. Which place completes this sentence about Port of Haifa? The port employs over 1,000 people, rising to 5,000 when cruise ships dock in ______.
  47. Which place completes this sentence about Port of Ashdod? When ______ was destroyed in the 10th century BCE it was not rebuilt.
  48. Which place completes this sentence about Port of Ashdod? After ______ rebelled against Sargon II, the King of Assyria in 717 BCE he destroyed it and built a fortified city called Ashdod-Yam together…
  49. Which place completes this sentence about Tel Aviv Light Rail? A Decauville light railway was built in Jaffa and ______ in World War I, connecting the port with the Yarkon River.
  50. Which place completes this sentence about Southern District? The district capital is Beersheba, while the largest city is ______.
  51. Which place completes this sentence about Tel Aviv District? The district's capital is ______, the second largest city in Israel and the country's economic, business and technological capital.
  52. Which place completes this sentence about Ein Avdat? After the establishment of Kibbutz Sde Boker in 1952 and the construction of Highway 40 to ______, a hiking trail was created.
  53. Which place completes this sentence about Ashdod-Yam? Despite the antiquity of the place, the name ______-yam was applied to the site and adjacent town in October 1955, by Israel's Government Naming C…
  54. Which place completes this sentence about Ashdod-Yam? During the Iron Age the roles gradually reversed, and ______-Yam, located south of Ashdod, overtook in importance the port at Tel Mor, located nor…

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