Ministry of Tourism Oral Final Exam Questions:
Subject:
Herodion:
1. Tell us about the water source of Herodion
2. What is the origin of the water at Artas?
3. Is there an additional use of the water "spaces" in Herodion and if so, from what
period?
4. Did any special events take place in pools?
5. Name other Herodian palaces.
6. How come people did not like Herod?
7. Why did Antipater convert?
8. Which of the Hasmoneans forcibly converted the Edomeans?
9. Who was the father of Antigonus and Hyrcanus?
10. Is there any site named after Alexander Yanai?
11. Name Herod’s building projects
12. Describe how Herodion was built
The City of David
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What are the geographic borders of the City of David?
When was the Siloam inscription found?
Why is it in Turkey?
Can artifacts/antiquities be taken out of Jerusalem?
Why did the Jews in the First Temple period make the Siloam inscription back
then?
Mishkenot Sha'ananim
1. When was this neighborhood built?
2. Who settled in Mishkenot?
3. What did they live off of?
Caesarea:
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Why was Caesarea built where it was built?
Who built Caesarea?
When was Caesarea built?
What is special about the construction of the port?
Was this built as a Jewish city?
What was the relationship like between the Jews and Christians?
Zichron Yaacov
1. What are the various topics one could talk about in Zichron?
2. How was the town organized?
Western Wall Tunnels:
1. What do we see at the northern end of the tunnel? Describe the water system
there? What are its characteristics?
2. Is there something that contains water today?
3. Why did Herod want to rebuild the Temple Mount? Why rebuild a holy structure?
4. What is the proof that Herod's mother was Nabatean?
5. How much time passed between the Return to Zion and Herod's rebuilding of the
Temple?
6. How long did the Temple stand in its glory?
7. Can we see any part of the Temple today?
8. Where is the Al-Aksa mosque on the diagram we can see of Sec Temple period
Temple Mount?
9. Can we access the Temple Mount? Where do we not have access to on the
Temple Mount?
Southern Wall Excavations
1. Pilgrims arriving in Jerusalem; what did they do before they ascended to the
Temple Mount?
2. If you are standing at the base of the Temple Mount in Herod's day, please name
the gates along the Western Wall.
3. How come the priests (in Herod's time) would not wish to descend to the valley
below the Western wall before ascending to the Temple Mount?
4. What was Robinson's Arch used for?
5. What is the proof that the Temple Mount is Mt. Moriah?
6. Was there a logic behind Herod's killing or was it simply random?
7. Why would the Jews want to back Miriame's (Herod's Hasmonean wife) brother
as the High Priest (and as a candidate to replace Herod as king)?
8. What money was used to build the Temple?
9. Who were the people who built the Temple?
10. Why would a Christian group find the Southern Wall stairs relevant?
11. There are 4 gates in the Western Wall, what are their names?
12. There are Umayyad remains here, where else can we find Umayyad remains in
the country? What period are we speaking of? Periodization?
The Burnt House
1. What finds/artifacts found in the Burnt House are similar to those found in the
Herodian Mansions?
2. Why is the Burnt house called the burnt house?
3. From what period is the Burnt House?
4. Where are there remains from the 1st Temple period in the Jewish Quarter?
Gethsemane:
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What is the Jewish date of the Pascal meal?
How old are the Olive trees in Gethsemane?
What is at the Cenacle?
What can be seen at the room of the last supper?
When was the mosque here built?
Why is this site important to Moslems?
When did Islam begin?
When did Mohammed die?
Why did the Moslems come to Jerusalem? Why did they conquer the Land of
Israel?
10. How does Barluzzi’s design of the Church of Agony express the spirit of the
event?
11. One of the members of the group walks up to you in the garden of Gethsemane
and informs you that he needs to leave the country immediately. What do you do?
Zionist Settlement:
1. What is the first topic one would broach/talk about when arriving at Hanita?What
is similar about it and Tel Amal/Nir David?
2. Please describe the following: Kibbutz, Moshava, Mitzpe.
3. Connect the above to the various Aliyot
4. What is the difference between Shlomi and Carmiel from a settlement concept?
5. What is the first thing you would talk about with a group when arriving at
Kibbutz Hanita? What kind of settlement was this?
6. What characterizes the settlers of the 1st Aliyah? What years was this Aliyah?
7. What years was the 2nd Aliya?
8. What is the difference between the 1st and 2nd Aliyot? Compare and constrast.
9. By and large, where did the 2nd Aliyah settle? (geographically).
Ein Gedi:
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In what context does Josephus mention Ein Gedi?
What Biblical references are there to Ein Gedi?
What kinds of flora/vegetation can one see in the area of Ein Gedi?
What does a plant do to survive in the Desert/
How would you define the climate in Ein Gedi?
How would you brief people before entering the Dead Sea for a swim? How
would you tell them to swim? (not face down)
7. What would you talk about to a group on a bus on the way from Ein Gedi to
Jerusalem?
Beer Sheba
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Drive through modern Beer Sheva. What can one say about the city?
How was Beer Sheva taken?
What interesting cemetery can we find in Beer Sheva?
At Tel Beersheba, are there remains from later periods, such as the Roman
period?
Sde Boker:
1. What was Ben-Gurion's vision, and where did he live in the desert?
2. What project did Ben-Gurion take upon himself with regards to the Tanakh?
3. Who built the Negev Brigade monument?
4. How did Ben-Gurion relate to the Negev? Politically? Spiritually?
5. What can one see inside the historical museum at Sde Boker?
Tel Faher:
1. What were the results of the battle of Tel Faher?
2. What was the intelligence assessment about Tel Faher?
3. What was the next target for the IDF after the fall of Tel Faher?
4. What is TAP?
5. How was Birkat Ram created?
6. What can you tell us about the people living in the area of Birkat Ram? (the
Druze).
Questions from a Travel Agent:
1. Your guests are staying in one of the hotels on the beach in Tel Aviv. Suggest a
one day walking tour. Suggest a half day walking tour.
2. Suggest a tour of Jerusalem by night.
3. When you enter Jerusalem for the first time with a group and it is around 16:00 in
the afternoon, where would you wish to do an introductory panoramic observation
point?
4. A protestant couple is staying in Haifa. Put together a one day tour of the Galilee
for them.
5. You pick up a Catholic group at the airport. What is the first briefing you give
them on the bus? What is the first information that you are giving them?
6. The aforementioned group has arrived on the eve of Yom Kippur. What
information would you share with them?
7. Tell me about the election system in Israel.
8. What is "eco-tourism"?
9. What actions do you take when you are leaving a hotel with a group?
10. You are driving on the road from Acre to Safed. Take your group to a Druze
village. Which one? What would you do there? What would you talk about?
11. You are in a terrible car accident with your group. What do you do?
12. What is an optional tour? What is a regular tour?
13. Please give us a half day tour of Modern Jerusalem.
14. What are the crossing sites between Israel and Jordan (Sheikh Hussein, Adam,
Allenby/King Hussein, Arava/Rabin). Are they all at the same status?
15. When you bring your group to the ancient site at Capernaum, will the ticket booth
accept a travel voucher?
16. What instructions would you give your group as they were getting off the bus and
checking into a 5-star hotel?
17. A student comes up to you in the middle of the hadracha (e.g. at Tel Faher) and
tells you that he has received an urgent call from the States informing him that he
must go back to the US immediately. What do you do?
18. Put together a half day itinerary for a Jewish group in the Old City of Jerusalem.
19. Put together a Biblical tour of the Beit Shean Valley – Jezreel valley
20. What is the system of government in Israel? (he asked it this way – what is the
government/governing system in Israel?).
21. You are taking a group on a walking tour of Old City Jerusalem. How would you
handle a person who can't walk up hills?
22. What is the population in Israel?
23. You are organizing a Bar Mitzvah trip which requires you to have a ceremony
with the Torah reading. What days would be relevant to organize this on?
24. What do you brief a group while entering through the Jaffa Gates (about security
precautions, etc)?
25. Take a Jewish couple, starting in Haifa and plan a one day itinerary
26. You arrive at a hotel and you have a voucher that says 10 doubles, 2 singles and
half-board. What does this mean?
27. Take a Catholic couple that is staying in Haifa for a one day tour of the North that
focuses on Christian sites.
28. You drive from Jerusalem through Ein Karem and up towards the Sataf. What
would you explain about the terraces at Sataf? What other options for irrigation
here does one have?
29. What is the Dead Sea famous for? What is so special about it?
Haifa
1. Name some ethnic minorities in Haifa
2. Where is there a Carmelite site in Haifa?
3. The German Colony – what were Germans doing in Haifa?
Tel Aviv/Jaffa
1. In the foyer of the Shalom tower there is a mosaic. How does it help the guide
explain the development of Tel Aviv?
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When and where did Meir Dizengoff spend time up north?
What is special about Neve Tsedek?
What are the main Christian interests in Jaffa?
Standing at the visitor's center outside, look across the plaza and tell us the name
of the church there. Why is it oriented the wrong way?
6. What is special about St. Peter's in Jaffa? Which direction is the Church oriented?
7. Please name another church in Jaffa.
8. Why was Tel Aviv chosen as a World Heritage site? What does Bauhaus mean?
Where can you see it in Tel Aviv?
Tel Azekah
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What historical periods are covered in this site?
When was Saul's kingdom?
What other finds (aside from basic Iron age) can be found here?
Are there Bar Kochba caves here?
Beit Guvrin/Maresha:
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When was Tel Maresha first excavated and by whom?
Why was the Tel recovered after the initial excavation?
What remains do we have here?
Is Beit Guvrin and Maresha the same? If not, then what is the difference?
From what periods do we have remains here?
Is there anything Jewish here?
How does the hoard found in the villa enable us to date the destruction of
Maresha?
8. Was John Hyrcanus' forced conversion an original idea or was it something
acceptable to do at the time?
9. What written sources do we have from this period?
10. What did the inhabitants here do for a living?
11. Tell us something about the Sidonian cave. What were the Sidonians doing in
Maresha?
Mitzpe Ramon/Ramon Crater
1. What is a Machtesh? How is it formed?
2. What kinds of geological phenomena can be seen in Machtesh Ramon?
Judaism:
1. What is written in the Mezuza?
2. What is "‫( "בין המיצרים‬the 3 weeks)?
3. Why is Tiberias important to the Jews?
4. What are the 4 holy cities in Judaism?
5. How would you date Rambam? What is his connection to the Land of Israel?
6. You are with first time tourists to Israel and they see people with white strings
coming out of their clothes. Explain.
7. Explain the black garb of Ultra-Orthodox Jews.
8. What is Parshat Hashavua?‫פרשת השבוע‬
9. What is Tzome Gadaliya?‫צם גדליה‬
10. Are there laws – Halachot – pertaining to animals.
11. Is it written somewhere that you must treat animals well?
12. What is the Tosefta? Who collected it?
13. What is Torah Shebaal pe – (Oral Law)? Who does not accept it?
14. What is the Moslem equivalent of Oral Law?
Islam
1. What is the original direction of prayer for Moslems?
2. Are you allowed to go into a mosque if you are not a Moslem?
3. When did the Sunni and Shiites split (when did the big split occur?)?
4. Name two major Islamic structures on the Temple Mount
5. When were they built? What was their purpose?
6. Are they both mosques?
7. What do Moslems need to do before they go into a mosque?
8. What is written law and what is oral law in Islam?
9. Who built the White Mosque? Where and when?
10. Please name the 5 pillars of Islam.
Tsippori:
1. Was Tsippori a Jewish City? What can we find in Tsippori that would indicate
that it was Jewish?
2. What is pagan in Tsippori? Give two examples.
3. Is there a church in Tsippori? If so, then what is its name and from what time
period is it? Where is it located?
4. Is Helios really located in the synagogue?
5. When was the Amidah inaugurated? Was it said 3 times a day in the 5th century?
6. Where is Tsippori mentioned in primary sources? What do we know about
Tsippori in the 1st century CE?
7. Are there any anomalies about the synagogue?
8. Is there any sign in the floor that indicates they knew where Jerusalem was?
9. When did they start excavating Tsippori? Who excavated it?
10. How do you pay the entrance fee for a group arriving in Tsippori?
Acre:
1. What are the two main periods in Acre's history?
2. Please name two main religious sites in Acre. To whom are they dedicated and
why?
3. Why was the Al-Jazar Mosque built?
4. Please briefly describe the main Crusader sites of Acre.
5. Who built the walls of Acre?
6. Describe the Crusader aspects of Acre.
7. Why has Acre won UN world recognition?
8. When and why did Napoleon attempt to conquer Acre? Why did Napoleon fail to
conquer Acre?
9. Trace a tour route from Acre to Jerusalem.
10. What is important about the mosque in Acre?
11. Tell us a little about the prison. What was its role vis a vis the Bahai?
12. Name some of the personalities held in the prison.
Safed
1. Who was the population of Safed in the 16th century?
2. Please name major Kabbalistic figures from Safed
On the Roads:
1. What road would you take from the Sea of Galilee up to the Golan?
2. You are driving up to Jerusalem from the airport with a Catholic group that has
just arrived. What topics would you talk about with them on the bus ride?
3. Drive from Masada to Jerusalem. What would you say to a Christian group?
4. What do you see along the route when driving along the coastal road from Acre to
Ashkelon?
5. You are driving from Haifa to Tel Aviv along the coastal road. What are the
topics you will talk about en route?
6. Take us from Arad to Dimona, what can we see along the roadside? What can you
tell us about the Bedouin?
7. What are some of the issues about Route 6? Pros and Cons.
8. Drive from Jerusalem to the Judean Desert – what are 3 subjects one can talk
about on the way to the northern part of the Dead Sea?
9. Go from Latrun to Jerusalem – please mention the Crusader sites one finds en
route.
10. What sites/events would you talk about on a tour bus travelling from Shaar
HaGai to Jerusalem? (Crusader and Muslim sites)
11. Driving from Ben-Shemen to Lachis, what topics/themes can one talk about?
12. Going south toward Eilat, from the Arava junction, what can you talk about from
the bus?
13. Driving from the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem, choose a route and what would you
speak about?
14. What do you see on the Jordanian side? What does it look like (physically,
geographically, vegetation, etc.).
Church of the Holy Sepulcher
1. Please give 3-4 stages in the History of this church.
2. Why was the church built here?
3. Give us the dates of change with regards to the Church (turning points) in
chronological order.
4. What archaeologically existed before the construction of the church?
5. Please name stations 10-14 in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
Jerusalem:
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Please give 4 sites related to the last week of Jesus' life.
Please give 4 sites related to Jesus' life (in Jerusalem).
Please give 2 miracles performed by Jesus in Jerusalem.
What would you tell tourists about Masada?
What year did the Great Revolt break out? Why?
How and when did the Crusaders conquer Jerusalem? Describe the siege of
Jerusalem
7. Who was the Muslim commander who conquered Jerusalem in 638?
8. What was the relationship between Omar and the Jews?
9. Please give examples of Mameluke architecture in Jerusalem
10. You are with a Catholic group at the observation point on the Mt. of Olives. What
topics would you talk about to them?
11. Can you see the Judean Desert from this observation point?
12. Why is the Old City divided into quarters?
13. Why is there a separate Armenian Quarter?
14. What is the difference between the "Old Yishuv" and "New Yishuv" in
Jerusalem?
15. Why was it important for Jews to spend the rest of their lives in Jerusalem?
(meaning for Jews who emigrated from abroad).
16. Where did the folks who founded Nachalat Hashiva get their funding from?
17. What are the main sections in Mt. Herzl that you would take a group to?
18. Who is the main personality in Israel that opens the events on the eve of
Independence Day on Mt. Herzl?
19. What churches can one see on the slopes of Mt. of Olives?
20. From the observation point on Mt. of Olives: Why are there cemeteries here?
21. Please name some famous personalities buried on Mt. of Olives. In the modern
era?
22. What sites in Jerusalem would interest a Christian group?
23. What happened in the Vale of Hinnom (‫ )גיא בן הינום‬in the First Temple period?
24. What are the dates of the building and destructions of the Temples in the First and
Second Temple periods?
25. What would you show a Christian group on Mt. Zion?
26. Please say something about the "upper room". Where is it located? What can one
talk about here? What are the topics one can speak about here?
27. What does St. Peter in Gallicantu commemorate?
28. Where are there Jewish sites on Mt. Zion?
29. What does the 'Eastern Hill' mean as opposed to the 'Western Hill'
30. Where in Jerusalem can we see remains of the wall Hezekiah is said to have built?
31. What is Bethezda?
32. Please name a few neighborhoods built outside of the Old City walls.
33. At Mt. Herzl there is a section for the Leaders of the Nation. Who is buried there?
Who is not buried there (of the people defined as have a privilege to be interred
here – PMs and Presidents, etc)
34. Where is there a church named after Anne in Jerusalem? Where are there
Churches named after St. Anne outside of Jerusalem?
35. Standing at the observation point at Mt. of Olives with a Christian group. What
are the topics you would talk about?
36. You are guiding a mixed group (Jews, Christians and Moslems) around
Jerusalem, where would you take them?
37. The Sheep's Pools in Jerusalem can be related to what profession?
38. Where is the Israelite Tower?
39. What criticism can you give to the claim that Jesus' tomb was at Gordon's
Calvary?
40. Name two people buried on the Temple Mount.
41. Name first three neighborhoods established outside of Old City of Jerusalem.
42. Name some buildings from the 19th century built in Jerusalem.
43. Please mention some sites in Jerusalem from the 19th century.
44. Please mention 1-2 Churches in Jerusalem from the Crusader period.
45. When was the Via Dolorosa established?
46. What was the Via Dolorosa in the Byzantine period?
47. Was there a Byzantine Via Dolorosa?
48. What were some of the churches on the aforementioned (Byzantine) route?
49. Please tell us about 1st Temple period sites in Jerusalem. In the Old City?
50. The "missing 10th century" with regards to Jerusalem, what is this about?
51. Who built the Broad wall? When?
52. Recommend a program-itinerary for Protestants in Jerusalem – not in the Old
City.
53. If a Christian tourist wanted to see something related to Byzantine Jerusalem,
what could you show him/her?
54. Give two examples of miracles that Jesus performed in Jerusalem.
55. Please mention two sites from each Muslim period in Jerusalem.
56. Can you name a Madrassa?
57. Please describe Mameluke remains in Jerusalem
58. What are the Hulda gates? What is the origin of the name?
59. When did Ottoman forces conquer Jerusalem?
60. Why did the Ottoman Turks build the wall around the Old City of Jerusalem?
61. What are the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem?
62. What is the significance of the Room of the Last Supper (the Upper Room,
Coenaculum, etc)?
63. When entering the Old City of Jerusalem through the Jaffa gate, what instructions
would you give the group in terms of precautions?
64. Prepare a one day itinerary in Jerusalem for a Catholic group
65. Name two sites in Jerusalem for every Islamic period:
66. Early Muslim period
67. Mameluke Period
68. Ottoman Period
69. How many Stations of the Cross are located in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
70. What are these stations?
71. What is the importance of Mt. of Olives to Judaism and Christianity?
72. What is the basis of Jewish belief regarding the end of days and Mt. of Olives?
73. What is the Church of the Ascension today?
74. Why did all nations contribute to the construction of the Church of the Agony?
75. Why did Jesus leave the last supper and walk to the area of Gethsemane?
Ethnic groups in Israel:
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Where can one find Ahmadians?
Where and when did they begin?
Tell us about the minorities in Haifa.
Do the Samaritans accept the Oral Law?
Plan a tour revolving around minorities on Mt. Carmel
Please say something about the beliefs of the Druze, the Bahai and the
Ahmadians.
7. What percentage of Israelis are Moslems?
8. Tell me something about the Druze. Why can't you convert into or out of the
Druze religion?
9. Name an Alawite village in Israel. What is special about the village?
10. Where are there Circassian villages in Israel?
11. Where are there Druze villages in Israel?
12. Where are the Bedouin located?
13. Where do Karaites live in Israel (where is their center?)
14. Where do Samaritans live in the Land of Israel?
15. What are the principles of the Druze religion?
16. Please say a few words about the Bedouin.
Crusader Period:
1. Describe the various orders of the Crusader knights.
2. What was the headquarters of the Crusader Knights orders in Jerusalem?
3. Why was Acre so important in Crusader times?
4. When was the Crusader period?
5. What were the two capitals of the Crusader kingdoms respectively?
6. What was the purpose of the Crusaders here? Why did they come? Who sent
them?
7. Why did the Crusader period happen when it happened?
8. Why did they build such large castles?
9. Who followed the Crusaders (the next historic period)
10. Name some Crusader Churches outside of Jerusalem
11. Name some remains of Crusader Castles around the country.
Geology/Geomorphology
1. What is special about the Hula valley? What was here in the past? What was
done?
2. What is special about the geology of the Eilat mountains?
3. Please explain the creation of the Rift Valley?
4. From where to where does it extend?
5. Say something about Rosh Hanikra geomorphologically/geologically.
6. How is a Machtesh formed?
7. Timna – what can you say about the geomorphology of the area. What
geomorphological shapes do we have here and how were they formed?
8. What is the lithology of Solomon's pillars?
9. When was copper mined in Timna?
General:
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Describe some of the history of Ein Gedi.
Mention some flora and fauna in the Golan.
Where are there nature reserves on the Golan?
Is the Golan conducive to agriculture? Which parts? What can be grown? What
are some of the problems?
5. What is the symbol of the National Parks authority in Israel?
6. What is important about Beit Shean in the Biblical period?
7. What was the name of the league of ten cities?
8. What is the difference between a theater and an amphitheater? What were the
purposes of each?
9. Why is Qumran important to Protestants? Why does the feast of the Tabernacles
open at Qumran?
10. Muhammed Ali and Ibrahim Pasha – say something about them. How long were
they here? What years?
11. Why did the German Templers leave the country?
12. Where are there German colonies around the country?
13. Who are the Carmelites?
14. When did the Carmelite order begin? Where are they located in Haifa? Where are
they located outside of Haifa?
15. What is the importance of Yodefat?
16. What is the importance of Gamla? What were the most important finds in Gamla?
Why was a synagogue found in Gamla?
17. Mention other synagogues contemporaneous to the Temple in Jerusalem.
18. When did the Romans arrive in the Land of Israel?
19. Who was Daher al Omar? Why is he so important? Did he have a special
relationship with Jews? If so, what was it about?
20. Who determined the northern border? What is the northern border today? Is it the
same as the original determination (1923)?
21. What is the importance of Nebi Samuel to Jews and Moslems?
22. Please name three nature reserves in the Upper Galilee.
23. Tell us about the Burma rd. What can you say about it, it's function? Where is it?
24. What is the importance of Ein Karem to Christianity?
25. Please give us some Christian sites around the Sea of Galilee.
26. Why is Capernaum so important? Why is it am important site back at the time of
Jesus? (Hint: It's topographical importance?).
27. What did the people living in Capernaum at the time of Jesus do for a living?
28. Why are there two Hadassah Hospitals in Jerusalem?
29. What is Yad Vashem?
30. Two First Temple period sites in the upper Galilee
31. Two First Temple period sites in the shephela
32. Where would you take a tourist around the country to see ancient Mikvaot?
33. You are using the term "CE" as opposed to "AD" and your tourist is upset about
it. What do you explain to him/her?
34. How was the Judean desert created?
35. What do plants and animals do to survive in the desert?
36. Where are the bird watching sites in Israel/
37. How can you identify a church architecturally from the outside? A mosque?
38. Please name capital cities from different historical periods in this country.
39. Explain the funny dress about people in the Kotel on a Friday night
40. Where are there important Ummayad sites in the Shephela?
41. What Jewish and Christian events took place at Mount Tabor?
42. Name a holiday in the NT that has Jewish sources
43. Are the Bell caves younger or from the time of Maresha?
44. Where are there 3 Holocaust sites outside of Yad Vashem?
45. Please name sites around the country that have ancient bathhouses.
46. What is the connection between the Sanhedrin and Beit Shearim and Tzippori?
47. What are some attractions for tourists to do in Eilat?
48. What and when was the Sykes-Picot Agreement?
49. Who are Origen, Eusebius, Martyrius, Euthemius?
50. What was the "Mitzpim" program?
51. What is significance of Kasr al-Yahud?
52. What is difference between the "kaaba" and the "kibla"?
53. What is the "Hameshushim"? And how do these pools form?
54. What were the routes of the Via Maris and the King's Highway?
55. Which Greek general was defeated by Judah Maccabee at Emmaus?
56. What is the importance of Tel Lachish?
57. How can you tell a mosque is a mosque? Is there anything special about the floor
of a mosque?
58. Tell us about the election system in Israel, how does it work? How often are there
supposed to be elections?
59. What are the land crossings between Israel and its neighbors? (with Jordan and
with Egypt).
60. What is the Madaba map? Does the map exclusively cover Jerusalem, or does it
include other places? What are the main gates that can be discerned in the
Jerusalem section of the Madaba map?
61. Name Christian sites around the Sea of Galilee.
62. Say something about Tabha. Peter primacy? Is there somewhere else in Israel
where Peter receives primacy?
63. What is the story of Kursi?
64. What is the parable/legend about the Good Samaritan?
65. Why could Jesus not be buried inside of the Old City?
66. What was the American Colony in Jerusalem?
67. The electric station in Hadera, what is the source of its energy?
68. What era is the mound (Tel) at Beit Shean from?
69. What are sites of settlement of German Templers?
70. What is source of drinking water in Eilat? (desalination plant)
71. What is the "Moses Seat"?
72. What are the features of the mosaic in the synagogue of Hamat Gader?
73. To whom was the inscription dedicated?
74. What was the "Uja Line"?
75. What do the different colors on a map represent?
76. What are "Areas A, B and C"?
77. What was the "Allon Plan"?
78. What is the "Falluja Pocket"?
79. What is the geology of Masada and its relationship to people building there?
80. What is the history of the JNF?
81. What role did the British play in the planting of trees?
82. If you see someone in Jerusalem who has just been on Haj, how will they appear?
83. What Muslim structures will you see at Beit Guvrin? (Mukhtar's house) at Sha'ar
HaGai? (Khan)
84. What Crusader structure will you see on the Temple Mount? (triple gate in
Solomon's stables, Refectory of Knights between al-Aksa and Islamic Museum)
85. What is the consequence of driving your car into the Territories?
86. Why do some Jews always dress in black and wear side-curls?
87. Why are there 120 members of the Knesset?
88. What percent of the vote must a party obtain in order to gain a seat in the
Knesset?
89. What is the relationship of Bosnians to Caesarea?
90. What are the black spots on the grottos at Rosh HaNikrah?
91. Name places of water that contrast with desert surroundings in the Negev. (e.g.
Ein Sahkronim, Yorkeam)
92. What can you see in Timna Park?
93. What was the Hula Valley like in the past? What was done to it?
94. What were the capitulation agreements?
95. What is Beit Hankin?
96. Name three different via dolorosas (three different traditions). Why were there 3
stages to the via dolorosa?
97. Name two sites where Jesus healed people in Jerusalem
98. Why don't the Protestants go on the Via Dolorosa?
99. What can you tell us about the Dead Sea Scrolls?
100.
What is Naharayim?
101.
What and where was the Burma Road?
102.
Where are the Flour Caves?
103.
Describe the differences in types of Galilean synagogues.
104.
What would you advise tourists to see in the area of Eilat?
105.
Describe the flora and fauna of the Carmel
106.
Why are Jew's heads covered at the Kotel
107.
What is the difference between eastern orthodox and western churches?
108.
What can you tell us about Ein Karem for Christian pilgrims?
109.
Why do most holy sites belong to the Franciscans?
110.
Let's say you visit Mary Magdelene and Dominus Flevit churches. What
are the differences between them?
111.
Why are there so many icons in the Eastern Churches?
112.
What is the importance of Hadera?
113.
Describe the Acre prison
114.
Tell us about the northern border – from when is the present line the
border?
115.
What could you tell Christian tourists about Jericho?
116.
What characterizes the Chalcolithic period? Name a few sites from this
period? Some remains?
117.
What are some of the characteristics of Mameluke architecture?
118.
Describe the main process of Jewish settlement of the Negev before 1948.
Name some of the settlements. Settlements before 1946?
119.
What was the Decapolis? In which region did it exist? What period was it
created? What period did it exist? What was the point of the Decapolis?
120.
What are the geographical boundaries of the Shepelah?
121.
What was the concept in the planning of the Lachish region and K. Gat?
122.
What is the difference between this concept that the one that informed the
building of Carmiel and Arad?
123.
Can you name a prominent church in Jaffa? What is unique about it?
124.
What is the Christian story about Jaffa?
125.
What are the architectural features of a church, mosque and synagogue?
How can one differentiate between them?
126.
What was Sartaba? (Herodian fortress; one of Masuot hills)
127.
Why was the Hula valley drained? Why was it reflooded? When did the
former take place? When did the latter take place?
128.
Why are Christians so interested in Qumran?
129.
Why does the Dead Sea need saving?
130.
What is Zionism? When did it start?
131.
Who was Chaim Weizmann? What was his vision? Where can we find a
museum that relates to his life? What can we find in Rehovot?
132.
Please name all of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Israel
133.
Why was Tel Aviv chosen as a world heritage site?
134.
What are Israel’s sources of water?
135.
What are the sources of the Jordan river?
136.
What is the National Water Carrier? When was it constructed?
137.
What is the Sapir site?
138.
What percentage of Israel’s water is supplied by the Sea of Galilee?
139.
What problems have recently been encountered at the Shafdan water
treatment plant?
140.
What is Ramat Hovav?
141.
Describe Israel's water problems.
142.
How many Israelis are there in the country?
143.
How many members of the Knesset are there?
144.
Who wrote Hatikvah?
145.
Why is Qumran important to Christians?
146.
What can one find in Jericho?
147.
Where does the name Maale Adumim come from?
148.
Where can we find evidence of Jerusalem in the First Temple period?
149.
Name 3 ecological problems that Israel faces and needs to solve
150.
What can you say about modern Arad? When was it built?
151.
What is special about the weather in Revivim?
152.
Is there a plane at Revivim and what is it’s story?
153.
What sites are located in Jericho?
154.
In what period were most of the Churches in the country destroyed?
155.
What are the sinkholes around the Dead Sea?
156.
Why do Christians think that there is a connection between Qumran and
John the Baptist?
157.
Where would you go in the Shepela with the Bible in hand?
158.
What is in Beit Guvrin?
159.
What is unique about the Amphitheater in Beit Guvrin?
160.
What is a voucher?
161.
Name 3 major Islamic periods?
162.
Tell us about the Nabateans, their origins and their organization.
163.
When did the Nabatean spice route exist?