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Daily Archives: July 27, 2021

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Beresheet 2: Israel’s Second Attempt to Land on the Moon Scheduled for 2024

SCIENCEBy Lenny GiteckJuly 27, 2021

On Feb. 22, 2019, the Israeli SpaceIL lunar lander Beresheet (named after the first book of the Torah) was launched…

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FUN QUIZ ANSWERS

 

  1. 1. Israel has become a significant world player in natural gas. Which of the following are the country’s largest offshore gas fields?
    a. Leviathan and Tamir
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  3. 2. What year did the Israeli currency’s name change from the lira to the shekel (now the New Israeli Shekel)?
    c. 1980
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  5. 3. True or false: The term shekel comes from the Torah.
    a. True
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  7. 4. How many members are in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament?
    c. 120
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  9. 5. Israel now has a second international airport (in addition to Ben-Gurion), located just north of Eilat. What is its name?
    b. Ramon Airport

NAME THAT ISRAELI! ANSWER

 
Menachem Begin

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WOW! FACTS

Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?

We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!

To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
 

Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google

Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia

Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed

Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed

Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed

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