Who, what, why, how?
The AJN 5772 Quiz
1) The Yisrael Beiteinu MP Anastasia Michaeli was temporarily suspended from Knesset in January for what offence against at a fellow MP, Ghaleb Majadle of Labour?
- Swearing at him
- Throwing a cup of water at him
- Hitting him
2) Following Michaeli’s offence, how did the United Arab List MP Ahmed Tibi respond, earning his own temporary suspension?
- He published a cartoon mocking her
- He mimicked her from the podium
- He read a rude poem about her from the podium
3) In a speech in March, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu famously likened Iran to which species?
- A duck
- A parrot
- A monkey
4) Which was the main medium that Israeli and Hamas representatives negotiating the deal to free Gilad Shalit used to communicate with each other?
- Diplomatic cable
- Face-to-face meeting
- Text message
5) What has Gilad Shalit revealed since returning home helped him to get through his captivity?
- God
- Sport
- Music
6) Spot the odd one out — which of these world leaders has not visited Israel in the last year?
- Russian President Vladimir Putin
- German President Joachim Gauck
- American President Barack Obama
7) What did Israel give the Palestinian Authority in June as a “confidence building” measure.
8) What was the Tal Law?
9) Which political party joined the ruling coalition in May only to leave 70 days later?
10) In which city did Haredim riot in December, faced with criticism about the level of gender segregation locally?
11) Shortly after these riots Haredim in another Israeli city protested against what they called a national campaign against their lifestyle. There was fury across Israel and the Jewish world regarding the outfits some of them were wearing. What were the offending outfits?
12) Which Israeli film was nominated for an Academy Award, but missed out on the prize in the awards ceremony in February?
13) Name one of the top two countries which most of Israel’s illegal immigrants come from.
14) Israel is building a fence along which border to prevent the flow of illegal immigrants?
15) Which West Bank settlement will grow on the order or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to compensate for the government’s evacuation, for legal reasons, of 30 homes?
16) Which Israeli did readers of the men’s magazine Maxim vote hottest woman in the world in May?
17) Which American actor spontaneously held a belated barmitzvah at the Western Wall in June?
18) Who was the highly influential 102-year-old-Haredi rabbi who died in July?
19) Politicians in Ramallah are claiming to have new evidence that which former Palestinian leader was assassinated by Israel?
20) What is the name of the new president in Egypt, who is raising fears in Israel about the future of the Egyptian-Israeli peace due to his affiliation with the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood?
21) What is the name of the embattled Syrian President?
22) Who has turned around the fortunes of Israel’s Labour party’s this year, after taking over its leadership just before Rosh Hashanah lat year?
23) Who lost the top position of the Kadima party in a party election in March?
24) Who became the new leader of Kadima?
25) Which former journalist set up a new centrist political party called Yesh Atid in January?
26) Name one of the two former top security chiefs who caused controversy by publicly criticising Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s stance on Iran in the spring?
27) Which former Likud Prime Minister died this summer?
28) Which former prime minister was cleared in July of the main corruption charges that forced him out of office four years ago?
29) Which European Union official caused controversy after the March terror attack against Jews in Toulouse, after she seemed to draw a parallel between the Toulouse murders and the suffering of children in Gaza?
30) Which German intellectual was widely condemned in Israel in April — and actually banned from entering the country should he wish to — after publishing a poem criticising the country and saying that it “endangers an already fragile world peace”?
Answers
1) B: Throwing a cup of water at him
2) C: He read a rude poem about her from the podium
3) A: A duck
4) C: Text message
5) B: Sport
6) C: American President Barack Obama
7) Bodies of captured Palestinians
8) The law which expired in August that exempted Haredi men from national service
9) Kadima
10) Beit Shemesh
11) Concentration camp outfits
12) Footnote
13) Sudan or Eritrea
14) Israel’s border with Egypt
15) Beit Ei
16) Bar Rafaeli
17) David Arquette
18) Yosef Shalom Elyashiv
19) Yasser Arafat
20) Mohammed Mursi
21) Bashar Assad
22) Shelly Yachimovich
23) Tzipi Livni
24) Shaul Mofaz
25) Yair Lapid
26) Meir Dagan or Yuval Diskin
27) Yitzhak Shamir
28) Ehud Olmert
29) Catherine Ashton
30) Günter Grass
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