The Etgar Quiz no 249

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1) Who said this? “In Israel, to be a realist Israel, to be a realist you must believe in miracles”:

a)Chaim Weizmann

b)Harry Truman

c)David Ben Gurion

d)Natan Sharansky

e)Clement Attlee

2)Which Israeli guitarist played for the Red Hot Chilli Peppers

a)Hillel Slovak

b)Roni Peterson

c)Chaim Romano

d)Gary Eckstein

e)Shlomo Katz

3)Zubin Mehta was music director of Israel’s national orchestra. Where was he born?

a)Egypt

b)India

c)Argentina

d)Pakistan

e)Bhutan

4)What is the Fourth Commandment?

a)don’t worship idols

b)honour your mother and father

c)don’t murder

d)remember Shabbat and keep it holy

e)don’t steal

5)Which is the odd one out?

a)ploughing

b)shearing

c)building

d)eating

e)burning

6)Which one of the following rabbis lived in the medieval period?

a)Hillel

b)Shammai

c)Yehudah Hanasi,

d)Yehudah Halevi

e)Ba’al Shem Tov

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 Answers: 1c, 2a. 3b, 4d, 5d (the other activities are forbidden on Shabbat), 6d

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