Question: What two centres of Mamluk power was the country located?
Answer: Cairo and Damascus

Question: When did the Mamluk Sultan Baybars convert to the Cave of Patriarchs?
Answer: 1266

Question: Many Jews have aspired to return to where?
Answer: Zion

Question: Where did some Jewish communities settle after they were expelled from Spain?
Answer: Palestine

Question: Rabbi Yehuda Hachasid led a group of how many Jews into Jerusalem?
Answer: 1,500

Question: What was the first wave of modern Jewish migration to Ottoman-ruled Palestine known as?
Answer: First Aliyah

Question: When did the First Aliyah begin?
Answer: 1881

Question: Who is credited as founding political Zionism?
Answer: Theodor Herzl

Question: When did the Second Aliyah begin?
Answer: after the Kishinev pogrom

Question: How many Jews settled into Palestine?
Answer: 40,000

Question: The first and second wave of migrants were mainly who?
Answer: Orthodox Jews

Question: What is the Jewish Legion?
Answer: a group primarily of Zionist volunteers

Question: When did the League of Nations grant Britain a mandate over Palestine?
Answer: 1922

Question: What does Haganah mean in Hebrew?
Answer: The Defense

Question: How many Jews did the Third and Fourth Aliyahs bring to Palestine?
Answer: 100,000

Question: When did Irgun attack the British administrative headquarters?
Answer: July 22, 1946

Question: What was the Jewish population in Palestine by the end of World War II?
Answer: 33%

Question: What country experienced conflict with the Jewish community after World War II?
Answer: Britain

Question: When was the King David Hotel bombing?
Answer: 1946

Question: When did the British government announce it would withdraw from Mandatory Palestine?
Answer: 1947

Question: What is the UNSCOP?
Answer: United Nations Special Committee on Palestine

Question: When was the UNSCOP formed?
Answer: 15 May 1947

Question: What was the last to be under an International Trusteeship System?
Answer: City of Jerusalem

Question: What four Arab countries entered British Mandatory Palestine?
Answer: Egypt, Syria, Transjordan and Iraq

Question: When was the Arab-Israeli War launched?
Answer: 1948

Question: What were the invading Arab armies aim?
Answer: slaughter the Jews

Question: Who aided the immigration to Israel?
Answer: Israeli Immigration Department

Question: The immigration was in accordance to what?
Answer: One Million Plan

Question: When did the Mossad LeAliyah Bet disband?
Answer: 1953

Question: The population of Israel rose from 800,000 to what between 1948 and 1958?
Answer: two million

Question: What ideology did some immigrants believe in?
Answer: Zionist

Question: Between 1948 and 1970, how many Jewish refugees relocated to Israel?
Answer: 1,150,000

Question: What were temporary camps known as?
Answer: ma'abarot

Question: How many immigrants lived in these tent cities?
Answer: over 200,000

Question: Who signed a reparations agreement with West Germany?
Answer: Ben-Gurion

Question: When did Egypt close the Suez Canal to Israel?
Answer: 1950

Question: Who was Israel frequently attacked by?
Answer: Palestinian fedayeen

Question: What did the war result in?
Answer: significant reduction of Israeli border infiltration

Question: Who refused toe recognize Israel?
Answer: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question: When did Egypt mass it's army near the border with Israel?
Answer: 1967

Question: What became the administrative boundary between Israel and occupied territories?
Answer: Green Line

Question: Where was the massacre of the Israeli athletes?
Answer: 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich

Question: What was the resolution of the Arab league?
Answer: three nos

Question: What did the ELO commit itself on?
Answer: armed struggle as the only way to liberate the homeland

Question: When did the Egyptian and Syrian armies launch a surprise attack against Israeli forces?
Answer: 6 October 1973

Question: How many lives were lost?
Answer: 10–35,000

Question: Who was forced to resign?
Answer: Prime Minister Golda Meir

Question: Where did Anwar El Sadat make a trip to?
Answer: Israel

Question: What did Sadat and Begin sign?
Answer: Camp David Accords

Question: Israel withdrew from where?
Answer: Sinai Peninsula

Question: When did the Coastal Road Massacre occur?
Answer: 11 March 1978

Question: Who secured southern Lebanon?
Answer: Israel

Question: Where were the PLO bases located?
Answer: south of the Litani River

Question: When did Israel annex the Golan Heights?
Answer: 1981

Question: What is the Capital of Israel?
Answer: Jerusalem

Question: Who provided incentives for Israelis to settle in the occupied West Bank?
Answer: Begin's government

Question: When did the Israeli air force destroy Iraq's sole nuclear reactor?
Answer: 7 June 1981

Question: Why did they destroy the nuclear reactor?
Answer: impede Iraq's nuclear weapons program

Question: What government inquiry held Begin?
Answer: Kahan Commission

Question: When did the First Intifada break out?
Answer: 1987

Question: How many people were killed in the violence?
Answer: More than a thousand people

Question: PLO supported who during the Gulf War?
Answer: Saddam Hussein

Question: Who became the Prime Minister in 1992?
Answer: Yitzhak Rabin

Question: When was the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace signed?
Answer: 1994

Question: When was Yitzhak Rabin assassinated?
Answer: November 1995

Question: Who led Israel in the 1990s?
Answer: Benjamin Netanyahu

Question: What did Benjamin Netanyahu sign?
Answer: Wye River Memorandum

Question: Who was elected Prime Minister in 1999?
Answer: Ehud Barak

Question: Who visited the Temple Mount?
Answer: Ariel Sharon

Question: When did Ariel Sharon become prime minister?
Answer: 2001

Question: How many Palestinian fatalities were they by 30 April 2008?
Answer: 4,745

Question: When did the Israeli Air Force destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria?
Answer: 6 September 2007

Question: Who announced its own ceasefire? 
Answer: Hamas

Question: How long did the operation in Gaza in November last?
Answer: eight days

Question: Where does the Jordan Rift Valley lie?
Answer: East of the central highlands

Question: What's home to 57% of the nation's population?
Answer: Israeli Coastal Plain

Question: How big is the sovereign territory of Israel?
Answer: 20,770 square kilometers

Question: What river runs along the Jordan Rift Valley?
Answer: Jordan River

Question: What is the largest makhtesh in the world?
Answer: Ramon Crater

Question: Israel has the largest number of what per square meter in the basin?
Answer: plant species

Question: What is the result of tectonic movements within the Dead Sea Transform?
Answer: Jordan Rift Valley

Question: What does the tectonic disposition lead to?
Answer: high seismic activity in the region

Question: The deficit can cause an earthquake of what magnitude to occur?
Answer: Mw~7.4.

Question: When did the most catastrophic earthquakes occur?
Answer: 31 BCE, 363, 749, and 1033 CE

Question: How many residential buildings did not meet construction standards?
Answer: 50,000

Question: How often do earthquakes that lead to serious loss of life occur?
Answer: every 80 years

Question: What kind of climate does Tel Aviv have?
Answer: Mediterranean

Question: What kind of climate does Arava have?
Answer: desert

Question: What was the highest recorded temperature in Tirat Zvi?
Answer: 54.0 °C

Question: Israel developed what?
Answer: various water-saving technologies

Question: What does Israelis take advantage of?
Answer: sunlight

Question: Who leads the nation in solar energy use?
Answer: Israel

Question: What was Israel's population in 2016?
Answer: 8,476,600

Question: How many African migrants entered Israel by June 2012?
Answer: 60,000

Question: How many Israelis live in urban areas?
Answer: 92%

Question: How many Israeli citizens lived in West Bank settlements?
Answer: over 300,000