Answer the following questions.
Question 1: Who is the president of Israel? * -- please make a selection --
Ehud Olmert
Shimon Peres
Moshe Katsav
Ehud Barak
Question 2: After the 2006 election, Kadima became the largest party in the 120-seat Knesset. How many seats did Kadima hold?
* -- please make a selection --
29
41
52
63
Question 3: What is the President of Israel authorized to do? * -- please make a selection --
Conduct foreign policy
Cast the tiebreaking vote in the Knesset
Appoint judges
Submit legislation to the Knesset
Question 4: Dalia Itzik is the first woman to serve in her current position. What is it? * -- please make a selection --
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Attorney General
Minister of Finance
Speaker of the Knesset
Question 5: How are Israel’s Basic Laws established? * -- please make a selection --
By a supermajority of the Knesset
By a special constitutional committee
By nonpartisan experts
By a simple majority of the Knesset
Question 6: In a parliamentary system, a party must earn a minimum percentage of the vote to gain seats. In Norway, it is 4%. In Turkey, 10%. In, Latvia, 5%. What is it in Israel? * -- please make a selection --
2 percent
5 percent
7 percent
10 percent
Question 7: Which national political figure was formerly the mayor of Sderot? * -- please make a selection --
Avigdor Lieberman
Shaul Mofaz
Amir Peretz
Meir Sheetrit
Question 8: One past Israeli election is often called “the revolution.” When was it, and what happened? * -- please make a selection --
1965, Levi Eshkol defeats David Ben-Gurion’s new electoral reform party
1969, Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister
1977, the first Likud victory in 30 years
1992, Rabin returns to power and begins peace process
Question 9: On June 30, 2008, the Knesset passed a law requiring a national referendum or a two-thirds majority of parliament in order to do what? * -- please make a selection --
Impeach the prime minister
Withdraw from territory
Pass a constitution
Change the law of religious conversion
Question 10: Benjamin Netanyahu was the first Israeli prime minister to do what? * -- please make a selection --
Be educated in the U.S.
Be born in the State of Israel
Serve as an ambassador before his tenure
Refuse the idea of land for peace
Bonus: In the 2006 parliamentary elections, what party draws its most substantial base of support from immigrants from the former Soviet Union? * -- please make a selection --
Likud
Labour
Kadima
Yisrael Beteinu
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