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Israel At 71. Quiz #2

Israel At 71. Quiz #2

Challenge your knowledge of Israeli politics, culture, and security!

Questions: 7 | Attempts: 82 | Last updated: Mar 20, 2025

Sample Question 1
Who was this young American college graduate who reported on Israel’s 1948 War of Independence for a Boston newspaper?

John Kerry, later to become a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State

Leon Uris (named derived from “Yerushalmi,” man of Jerusalem), author of the book Exodus

Robert Kennedy, later to become a U.S. Senator and Attorney General in his brother John F. Kennedy’s cabinet

Gershon Agron, editor of the Jerusalem Post and mayor of Jerusalem. His nephew, Martin Agronsky, started with the Post and later worked in American television news.

Sample Question 2
Who are the Palestinians? What is their origin? (In photo) Arab demonstration outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, 1920. The signs declared support for Palestine as part of Syria. (Library of Congress)

Descendants of the Canaanites and Phoenicians

Descendants of Arab tribes of Hejaz (in Saudi Arabia), Yemen, and Iraq

Descendants of the Biblical Philistines

A Bedouin tribe

Sample Question 3
Which group of people receive Palestinian Authority payments of $400 million annually? Photo: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the welfare recipients.

Palestinian refugees dropped from the lists of UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee relief agency

Retired Palestinian policemen and their families.

Palestinians who fled from the war in Syria

Imprisoned Palestinian terrorists and the families of those terrorists killed during attacks