2020/4/3 What is the capital of Israel? How old is Israel State? 1. Tel Aviv 1. 2000+ years 2. Haifa 2. 70+ years 3. Jerusalem 3. 10+ years 4. Jericho 4. 600+ years Which Continent is Israel at? Which is the alphabet used by the Israelis? …ד ,ג ,בּ ,א .Asia 1 .1 …ﺝﺙ ﺍ ﺏ ﺕ .Europe 2 .2 3. Africa 3. a, b, c, d… 4. United Arab Emirates 4. ադթձ… Which is the majority of the population? 1. Jews 2. Christians 3. Muslims 4. Bedouins What is the recognized language in Israel? 1. Hebrew 2. Arabic 3. English 4. Hebrew, Arabic & English What is the type of Government of Israel? Did any Israeli win Nobel Prize? 1. Monarchy 1. No. 2. Dictatorship 2. Yes, 3 laureates 3. Democracy Parliament 3. Yes, 12 laureates • State of Israel 4. Distribution of Authority 4. Yes, Arieh Warshel • Jewish and Democratic State. The prime Does Japanese need Visa to tour Israel? minister is head of government and the 1. Yes, cost around 50U$ Knesset is the legislature. 2. No, only a valid passport • Population around 9million. (2019) Israel won medals at the Olympics on 2016? Extra: What is MAZAL TOV? • Israeli Declaration of Independence, May 14, 1. 1-Gold, 1-Silver, 2-Bronze 1948. (British Mandate terminated that day.) 2. No. 3. Israel does not participate at the Olympics. • 20,770–22,072 km2 ( Japan is about 18 4. 2-Bronze times larger) • Currency is New Shekel (₪) ILS. 80 74.5 70 60 50 40 30 o Jews 17.75 20 o Christian 10 4.19 1.95 1.6 o Muslims 0 Jews Muslims Christians Druze Other/Unknown 1 2020/4/3 The Jewish community is made up of: • Ultra-Orthodox - Modest • Orthodox - More relaxed (modest without restrict rules) • Secular - Anything pleased Muslims: • Hijab for man an woman Christians: • Anything that goes In a desert land, what's the biggest challenge? Find water! Are you familiar to the terms: o Kosher: Transfer water from the Sea of Galilee to the highly populated centers. Most of the water work in • National Water Carrier? • Meat and milk should not be mixed or ingested together; Israel are integrated, through tunnels, open canals, giant pipes, reservoirs.. • All blood of the animal must be drained before being • Seawater Desalination? Is a process that takes away mineral components from saline water. consumed; • Prohibited to consume pork, mollusks and seafood; • Thin Air & Recycling water? Create water from air. • Only fish with scales and fins can be consumed; • Drip Irrigation? Micro-irrigation system that has the potential to save water and nutrients by allowing water • Grape products should only be consumed if they are to drip slowly to the roots of plants. produced by a Jew; • The ingestion of insects and worms is forbidden; • Fruits, vegetables and vegetables should be thoroughly examined and washed before consumption, to avoid ingesting insects or parasites that are considered forbidden to Jewish law; o Halal: • Halal is all food allowed for consumption by the Koran, the sacred book of the Islamic religion. • The halal slaughter ritual is very specific and rigorous, having to be the whole process accompanied by Muslim inspectors to ensure compliance with the laws. 2 2020/4/3 • Meaning: “gathering, together”. • Is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. • Water-saving drip irrigation was • In 2010, there were 270 kibbutzim in Israel. invented in Israel. • Israel is a major exporter of fresh • Their factories and farms account for 9% of Israel's produce and a world-leader agricultural technologies despite the fact that the geography of the country. industrial output, worth US$8 billion, and 40% of its • Israel produced 95% of its own food agricultural output, worth over $1.7 billion. requirements, supplementing this with imports of grain, oilseeds, meat, coffee, cocoa and sugar. • Israel and Cyprus are the per-capita leaders in the use of solar hot water systems with over 90% of homes using them. • Most energy in Israel comes from hydrocarbon fuels: fuel plants, mostly coal and gas fueled. Science and technology in Israel is one of • Israel turning garbage dump into the country's most developed sectors. energy resource Israel spent 4.3% of its gross domestic • the facility will be producing alternative product (GDP) on civil research and fuel to provide a source of energy for development in 2015, the highest ratio in the cement production world. • Earth’s lowest elevation on land. It is 304 m deep, the deepest deepest hypersaline lake in the world. With a salinity of 342 g/kg, or 34.2% – 9.6 times as salty as the ocean. • The sea is called "dead" because its high salinity • Meaning "fortress” prevents macroscopic aquatic organisms, such as • First fortified by Hasmonean ruler fish and aquatic plants, from Alexander Jannaeus in the first century BCE. living in it, though minuscule quantities of bacteria and • It is located on the eastern edge of the microbial fungi are present. Judean Desert, overlooking Dead sea. • First Jewish vs Roman War. It ended with a mass suicide of 960 people in 73AD. • Sicarii rebels were hiding in there 3 2020/4/3 Consumer Prices? Tokyo is 8.63% Higher Rent Prices? Tel Aviv is 4.86% Higher Restaurant Prices? Tel Aviv 35.17% Higher Groceries Prices? Tokyo is 26.93% Higher Local Purchasing Power? Tokyo is 19.29% Higher Highest temperature: 21.6 °C Highest temperature: 48 °C Lowest temperature: -3.0 °C Lowest temperature: 7.5°C Annual average: 4.8 °C Annual average: 25.4°C • Weekends in Israel are composed by Friday and Saturday. Sunday is a regular working day. Israel has the fourth largest air force in the world. • Relative to its size, Israel is the largest immigrant absorbing nation on Earth; it has absorbed 350 percent of its population in 60 years. An Israeli doctor headed the team that developed a vaccine against cervical cancer. • Israel has the highest number of museums per capita in the world. Israel has designed and manufactured the first flight system to protect passenger and freighter aircraft against missile attack. • There are over 100 sushi restaurants in Tel Aviv, which makes it the city with the most sushi restaurants per capita after Tokyo and NYC. Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world. • Israel was the first country to ban underweight models. When Mrs. Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world’s second elected female leader in modern times. • The cell phone was developed in Israel. Israel’s Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera that is so small it fits inside a pill. • Voicemail technology was developed in Israel. Over 1,000 letters arrive in Jerusalem every year addressed to God. • The first antivirus software for computers was created in Israel in 1979. • Israel is the only country to revive an unspoken language and establish it as its national tongue. Israel is so small, you can run through it from west to east in two hours and from top to bottom in nine days. • Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives is the world’s oldest continuously used cemetery. Tiny Israel provides 5 percent of the world’s flowers. • El Al, Israel’s national airline set the world record for the most passengers on a commercial flight with 1,088, people. Israel is ranked first place in the world in the survival of cancer patients. • Per square kilometer, Israel has one of the highest levels of bird traffic in the world with over 500 million migrating birds crossing its airspace. In 1952, Albert Einstein was asked to be the president of Israel, which he declined. • Cherry tomatoes were originally engineered in Israel in 1973. Israel leads the world in the percentage of plastic bottles it recycles. • The first electric hair remover (epilator), was created in Israel. Israel is the only country where the popular Starbucks coffee chain failed, as most locals enjoy their coffee from Israeli cafes. Israel has more in-vitro fertilization per capita than any other country, and it’s free. • Since 1966, there have been twelve Israelis who were awarded Nobel Prize. • Israel has more Nobel Prizes per capita than the United States, France and Germany. Medal Name Games Sport Event Silver Yael Arad 1992 Barcelona Judo Women's half middleweight Bronze Oren Smadja 1992 Barcelona Judo Men's lightweight Bronze Gal Fridman 1996 Atlanta Sailing Men's sailboard Ada Yonath Avram Hershko Shimon Peres Bronze Michael Kolganov 2000 Sydney Canoeing Men's K-1 500 metres Bronze Ariel Zeevi 2004 Athens Judo Men's half heavyweight Gold Gal Fridman 2004 Athens Sailing Men's sailboard Bronze Shahar Tzuberi 2008 Beijing Sailing Men's sailboard Bronze Yarden Gerbi 2016 Rio de Janeiro Judo Women's half middleweight Dan Shechtman Daniel Kahneman Yitzhak Rabin Bronze Or Sasson 2016 Rio de Janeiro Judo Men's heavyweight Robert Aumann Menachem Begin Michael Levitt Aaron Ciechanover Shmuel Yosef Agnon Arieh Warshel ALBERT EINSTEIN WAS A JEW!! 4 2020/4/3 • https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel • https://www.google.com/search?q=kosher&oq=kosher&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l4j0.719j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 • https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Japan&country2=Israel&city1=Nagoya&city2=Jerusalem • STENDEL, Ori (1997), The Arabs in Israel, ISBN 1898723230, Sussex Academic Press • STONE, Russell A.; Zenner, Walter P. (1994), Critical Essays on Israeli Social Issues and Scholarship, ISBN 0791419592, SUNY Press • TESSLER, Mark A. (1994), A History of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, ISBN 9780253208736, Indiana University Press • THOMAS, Baylis (1999), How Israel was won: a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, ISBN 9780739100646, Lexington Books • TORSTRICK, Rebecca L.