Tamuz 5781
June 2021
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge and Comprehension Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour
Please select and answer no more than 30 of the 33 multiple-choice questions below.
If you answer more than 30 questions, the first 30 answers will be taken into account.
Each question is focused on a certain subject and is comprised of two parts:
·
First part A: knowledge question – a short statement which you have to complete. Write your answer on the same line, in continuation of the statement (half a point).
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Second part A: multiple-choice comprehension question, with four optional answers. Mark your answer on the answer sheet, by encircling the letter indicating the most correct answer (half a point).
1) The ruler who built Acre (Akko) in the Ottoman period was ___________
The reason he chose specifically to restore Acre:
a) Fear of an English and/or French invasion
b) The need for a port
c) To make an alliance with Muhammad Ali
d) Due to the Crusader wall that still stood in place and served as a line of defense from a naval invasion
2) The first German Templer colony established in the Land of Israel in the modern era was in: ______
The contribution of the German Templers was manifested, among other things, by:
a) The building of a renewed aqueduct in the area of Caesarea and Ma’agan Michael
b) The building of churches
c) Paving the road to Tzemah
d) Transportation and agriculture
3) The name of the prayer written on ceramic tablets in the Church of the Visitation in Ein Karem, Jerusalem: ________
Its prefiguration:
a) Hannah’s prayer
b) Elizabeth’s prayer
c) The prayer of Moses on Mount Sinai
d) The Priestly Blessing (Priestly Benediction) (birkat hakohanim),
4) According to the resolution for the partition of the Land of Israel, Nahariya was to be in the territory of the _____ State.
The partition proposal was put to a vote at the UN following the recommendation of:
a) The Jewish Agency (ha’sochnut ha’yehudit)
b) The Arab Higher Committee
c) UNSCOP
d) Recommendation of the great powers - the Soviet Union and the USA
5) One of the leading tourist bird centers in Israel has been recently renewed in: ________
The main reason for the migration of many birds through our country is:
a) Warm air currents (thermals)
b) The limited number of hunters
c) A change in the direction of the magnetic North Pole due to climatic changes
d) The large number of nature reserves and national parks in Israel
6) The Good Fence (ha’gader ha’tova) separated between _______ and _________.
The circumstances of its establishment were related to:
a) Transfer of weapons to the Christian population in Lebanon
b) A humanitarian gesture to refugees in the Syrian civil war
c) A humanitarian gesture for the transfer of medicines to the Jordanian population in the wake of "Black September"
d) A humanitarian gesture to the Christian population in Lebanon
7) The stream that separates the Golan Heights from Mount Hermon is called: ________
The reason why this stream forms a boundary between these two geographical areas is related to:
a) Encounter between igneous rock (magmatic rock) (kirton) and chalk
b) Encounter between igneous rock (magmatic rock) (kirton) and limestone
c) Encounter between limestone and chalk (kirton)
d) The snow line
8) The most distinct historian of the Great Revolt against the Romans is: ___________
His acquaintance with the preparations for the revolt stemmed from his being:
a) One of the leaders of the Zealots in Jerusalem
b) One of the commanders of the revolt in the North
c) Commander of the revolt in the region of Qumran and the northern Dead Sea
d) The commander of the revolt in Jerusalem
9) A deciduous tree in the region of Gvaot Alonim is: _________
The cause for the falling of the leaves phenomenon is related to:
a) Excess water
b) Lack of water
c) Seasons of the year and climate
d) Parasites
10) Next to Beit Shearim stands a monument in memory of: __________
This character is associated with:
a) Histadrut Poalei Eretz Israel
b) Palmach
c) Protection of the lands of this country
d) Beitar
11) The Sapir site is related to the following projec: ________________
The location of this site was determined, among other things, in consideration of the following reason:
a) Topographical
b) Economic
c) Security
d) Religious
12) A bridge in the North of Israel, over the Jordan or the Yarmuk River, which was exploded on "the Night of the Bridges": ______________. Subsequent to this attack, the following historical event occurred:
a) Operation Agatha (“Black Sabbath”) (ha’shabat ha’shechora)
b) The Altalena Affair
c) The "Unfortunate Affair" (parashat esek ha’bish).
d) The Syrian armored attack on Degania
13) The name "Mount of the Curse" (har ha’klala) was given to: __________.
A controversial discovery at the site was identified by the excavator as being:
a) The Ark of the Covenant
b) The site of Balaam’s curse
c) Joshua’s altar
d) The site where Jesus was betrayed
14) The purple dye industry in the ancient world is mainly associated with which people? _________
It is accepted by most researchers that this color was extracted from:
a) Lapis lazuli stones
b) Red aphids
c) Beets
d) Snails
15) The "Broad Wall" (ha’choma ha’rechava) is related to which period? _______
The construction of the wall is related to:
a) Preparations for the Assyrian siege
b) Preparations for the Babylonian siege
c) Fortifications of the "Second Wall"
d) Fortifications of the "Third Wall"
16) The name of the fortress from the time of Herod, built north of the Temple Mount is: ________
The main reason for building it there was:
a) Proximity to the Via Dolorosa
b) Proximity to a spring
c) Topography
d) Fear of invasion by the Edomites
17) The inscription: "And when you see this, your heart shall rejoice ..." is found in: ____________
According to one of the suggestions, this inscription was engraved in connection with an attempt to build the Temple in the days of:
a) Hadrian
b) Constantine
c) Julian
d) Eudocia
18) The "city line" (ha kav ha 'Ironi) served as a boundary between these countries: __________
This line was determined on the basis of:
a) The United Nations 1947 Resolution
b) A distinct topographic route
c) The historical Ridge Route (derech gav ha’har)
d) The line of posts held by each party
19) A site related to Jonah the Prophet: _________
The story of the Prophet's ingestion by a fish relates in Christianity to the story of:
a) The resurrection
b) Baptism
c) The miracle of the five loaves and two fish
d) The Sermon on the Mount
20) A Shi’ite terrorist organization operating in our area: _________
A key figure in the Shi’ite religious conception is:
a) Omar
b) Hussein
c) Abu Bakr
d) Uthman (Osman)
21) An inscription reminiscent of the priestly divisions (mishmarot ha’kehuna) was found in the synagogue at: _________
The settlement of the priestly divisions in the North of the Land of Israel is related to:
a) The decrees of Antiochus
b) The destruction of the First Temple
c) The destruction of the Second Temple
d) The Jewish rebellion against Gallus
22) Unique ritual baths (mikvaot) can be seen in the Judean Desert at: _________
A religious/historical figure who may be associated with this site is:
a) Moshe Rabbenu
b) Elijah the Prophet
c) Jeremiah the Prophet
d) John the Baptist
23) The Irgun (ETZEL) ship that sank off the coast of Tel Aviv was called: _________
The ship arrived at the coasts of Israel:
a) Following Operation Agatha (“Black Sabbath”) (ha’shabat ha’shechora)
b) Around the Partition Resolution
c) On the evening of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel
d) After the establishment of the State of Israel
24) On the logo of which Israeli green organization does the ibex appear? _____________
The reason for that:
a) It is the most common animal in the Judean Desert and in the Negev Plateau
b) It is an animal with special characteristics such as the ability to survive and to sustain itself on a minimal amount of food
c) It is an animal that was in danger of extinction in Israel and its population was rehabilitated
d) It is an animal that appears in old texts and connects ancient times to the present day
25) A Jewish leader who came to meet Emperor Wilhelm II in Jerusalem: _______
His journey expressed the worldview of:
a) Religious Zionism
b) Political Zionism
c) Spiritual Zionism
d) Practical Zionism
26) Machtesh Hatira is also known as: _________
It is widely believed that the craters in the Negev were formed as a result of:
a) An asymmetrical anticline
b) Hard and soft rock layers
c) The erosional downcutting (hithatrut) of a stream
d) All the answers are correct
27) Two ancient settlement points on the Nabataean incense trade routes (darchei ha’besamim):__________
The Nabataean people belonged to which culture?
a) Arabic
b) Sassanid
c) Edomite
d) Philistine
28) A development town (ayarat pituach) in the Negev: __________
Among the main reasons for the establishment of development towns in Israel were:
a) Protecting the borders
b) Land acquisition
c) Population distribution
d) All the answers are correct
29) A tourist site in the Jerusalem mountains where you can get acquainted with traditional agriculture in ancient times: ______
The following crop belongs to rainfed agriculture (haklaut ba’al):
a) Lemon
b) Persimmon
c) Date palm
d) Olive
30) The curtain covering the ark in synagogues is called in Hebrew: ___________
Using this element in a synagogue, expresses the concept that a synagogue is:
a) A special place for the study of Torah
b) A sanctuary (mikdash me’at)
c) A place of prayer only
d) The center for religious Jewish life
31) A holiday celebrated by Jews belonging to the Ethiopian community: _________
In the tradition of the Ethiopian Kingdom, the origin of their connection to Jewish culture and Jerusalem goes back to the days of:
a) King Solomon
b) The exile of the Ten Tribes
c) King Herod
d) Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie
32) “E’ale betamar” is a term that refers to: ____________
This term is related to:
a) The days of the Second Temple
b) The Samaritan Sukkot holiday
c) An event that occurred in a particular year
d) Palm Sunday
33) The ceremony of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel took place on (date): ____________
The "Declaration of Independence" includes:
a) The Partition Resolution
b) The name of Jerusalem
c) The borders of the State of Israel
d) The construction of the Temple in the future
Good luck!
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LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotted for this section of the examination: two and a half hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
Tourists from Europe have requested a tour with an emphasis on Christianity. Departure from Jaffa at 08:00 and Ending in Ein Karem, Jerusalem, at 18:00.
Short guiding units:
1. One unit relating to Nature or Agriculture in the region. - Sataf
2. Two units relating to the tour theme: One in Jaffa and the other in Latrun St. Peter, Emaous
3. One unit – guiding along the way between Latrun and Abu Gosh
4. One unit in Abu Gosh Our lady of the ark of the covenant
5. One unit relating to the Crusader period Abu Gosh
Elaborated guiding unit: Ein Karem with an emphasis on Christianity Visitation, John Ba-harim
A group of foreign students is interested in a tour about settlement in Israel throughout history. The tour Rift Valley, between Tzemah and Kalia. Departure from Tzemah at 8:00 and Ending in Kalia at 18:00.
Short guiding units:
1. One unit guiding along the road from Tzemach to Beit She’an with emphasis on settlement:
Tzemach, Ashdot Ya'akov, Gesher, The island of peace, Naharayim
2. One unit with an emphasis of historical and/or archeological highlights related to a settlement point
Beit Shean
3. One unit on Jewish settlement in the area in modern times: Gesher
4. One unit on the geology of the area: The Syrian African Rift
5. One unit relating to Christianity – Qaser Al Yahood
6. One unit relating to geopolitics in the area Attrition war – Habika monument
Elaborated guiding unit: A site along the itinerary relating to modern agriculture in the area –
Meshek Oren, Date palm trees
A group of tourists from Europe arrived at the port of Haifa for a single day tour with an emphasis on minorities in the Carmel and in Galilee. The tour must include at least four minority groups. The tour begins at Haifa at 8:00 and Ends at Haifa at 18:00.
Short guiding units:
1. One unit about the vegetation of the Carmel – Mediterranean woodland
2. Two units relating to different minorities – Kababir, Stella Maris
3. One unit about a site sacred to the Druze – Nabi Shweib
4. One unit – guiding along the road in any part of the way
5. One unit – a lookout point - Muchraka
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Elaborated guiding unit: A site in Haifa relating of the minority groups. Bahai gardens
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Please note that the layout of the final exams have changed to some degree in 2020. Once I get proper instructions in English I will post them. In the meantime the new guidelines are available only in Hebrew.
Heshvan 5780
November 2019
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet.
Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points
1) The rock at the tourist site in Rosh Hanikra is essentially:
a) Chalk (kirton)
b) Basalt
c) Calcareous sandstone (kurkar)
d) Dolomite
2) The ruler known as “Abu Nabut” is related to:
a) Acre
b) Hebron
c) Jaffa
d) Abu Gosh
3) A stream that flows into the Mediterranean Sea:
a) Betzet
b) Tirza
c) Amud
d) Dishon
4) The national drainage divide passes through Jerusalem in the area of:
a) UN headquarters (Armon Hanatziv)
b) Mount Herzl
c) Heichal Shlomo (the jewish Heritage Center)
d) Beit Hakerem
5) Gas drilling rigs are planned in the area of:
a) Ellah Valley
b) The sea, opposite the southern tip of the Carmel
c) The Dead Sea
d) The sea, opposite Nitzanim
6) A tribe that wandered northwards according to the Bible:
a) Naphtali
b) Benjamin (Binyamin)
c) Dan
d) Zebulun (Zevulun)
7) Global warming may cause:
a) A rise in sea level
b) A fall of sea level
c) Multiple earthquakes
d) Migration of the magnetic north
8) The geological phenomenon of “bulbous” (calcite concentrates) can be seen mainly in:
a) The Hula Valley
b) Lissan marl (Chavar Halashon)
c) David Stream (Nahal David)
d) Negev
9) The Keshet Cave is closest to:
a) Shavei Zion
b) Matat
c) Hanita
d) Yiftah
10) According to the accepted Muslim tradition, Muhammad’s night-trip was to:
a) Medina
b) Mecca
c) Jerusalem
d) Karbala
11) A mosaic from the Roman period is found in:
a) The synagogue in Sepphoris (Zippori)
b) Villa Dionysaic moscaic in Sepphoris (Zippori)
c) The synagogue in Hamat Gader
d) Theodosius Monastery in Ma’ale Adumim
12) A relic from the Canaanite period can be seen in:
a) Hamat Tiberias
b) Ashkelon
c) Port of Acre
d) Caesarea
13) Remnants of a Philistine temple can be seen in:
a) Khirbet Qeiyafa
b) Yavneh Yam
c) Tel Qasile
d) Gilboa
14) A site recognized as a World Heritage Site:
a) Mount Tabor
b) Capernaum (Kefar Nahum)
c) Caesarea
d) Beit Shearim
15) The earliest of the following periods is that of:
a) Alexander the Great
b) Alexander Jannaeus (Alexander Yanai)
c) Ptolemy II
d) Archelaus
16) A site related to the lower aqueduct in Caesarea:
a) Mei Kedem
b) Nahal Taninim
c) Habiar spring
d) Beit Hanania
17) Herod the Great built a fort in Jerusalem in honor of:
a) Herod Agripa (Agripas)
b) Augustus
c) Pompey (Pompeius)
d) Mark Anthony (Marcus Antonius)
18) “The Light Festival” has been held in recent years in:
a) Jaffa
b) Jerusalem
c) Wadi Nisnas in Haifa
d) Nazareth
19) The month in which the “Ramadan Nights” tourist event takes place:
a) December
b) January
c) April
d) Not on a fixed date
20) The Church of the Holy Sepulcher was extensively damaged by the:
a) Mamluks
b) Ayyubids
c) Ummayads
d) Fatimids
21) A quarter that did not exist in Acre during the Crusader period:
a) Franciscan
b) Pisan
c) Hospitallers
d) Venetian
22) A Christian entity whose emblem depicts two folded arms:
a) The Christian Embassy
b) The Franciscan Custody
c) The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate
d) The Armenian Patriarchate
23) A distinctive architectural feature of the Crusader construction:
a) Triglyphs
b) Mukarnas
c) Elbow column
d) Corinthian capital
24) A female poet whose figure appears on a contemporary Israeli money bill:
a) Zelda
b) Leah Goldberg
c) Tirza Atar
d) Shuli Natan
25) A settlement that was destroyed in the War of Independence:
a) Nataf
b) Mishmar Hayarden
c) Efrat
d) Bnei Yehuda
26) Remnants of a Roman triumphal arch in Jerusalem can be seen at:
a) Mount Zion
b) David Citadel
c) Davidson Center
d) Via Dolorosa
27) The initials of the Irgun (Etzel) are:
a) Paramilitary Zionist Organization
b) Liberal Zionist Organization
c) National Military Organization
d) Military Organization for the Jews
28) The term “taryag” in Judaism is related to:
a) Genesis
b) The year in which the disciples of the Gaon of Vilna made aliyah
c) Riots against the Jews in the Roman period
d) Mitzvot
29) The UN vote on the “Partition Plan” took place on:
a) November 29th
b) 4th of Iyar
c) 5th of Iyar
d) May 15th
30) The “Yad Labanim” house in memory of the fallen members of the Druze community is located in:
a) Isfiya (Ussefiya)
b) Daliyat Al-Carmel
c) Hurfeish
d) Nabi Shuʿayb
31) The Byzantine emperor in whose time Christianity became the state religion:
a) Justinianus
b) Julianus
c) Constantinus
d) Theodosius
32) The first among the following who was President of the State of Israel:
a) Chaim Herzog
b) Pinchas Sapir
c) Yitzhak Ben Zvi
d) Moshe Sharet
33) The settlement of Be’erotayim is located in the area of:
a) Arava
b) Pitchat Shalom
c) Pitchat Nizana
d) Beer Sheba
34) The “Rachel Passage” is located in:
a) In the Binyamin region near Rachel’s Tomb in Binyamin
b) Ein Keshatot (Umm el-Kanatir)
c) South of Jerusalem
d) At the entrance to the Jericho area
35) The great earthquake in Safed (Zefat) was in the year:
a) 1799
b) 1837
c) 1869
d) 1882
36) The discoverer of Herod’s was:
a) Yigael Yadin
b) Yigal Shilon
c) Ehud Netzer
d) Yizhar Hirschfeld
37) The Arab village A-Shibli is located in the area of:
a) Mount Tabor
b) Givat Hamoreh
c) Tel Arad
d) Hula Valley
38) According to the Bible, the king in whose time the United Kingdom of Israel was divided:
a) Salomon
b) Rehoboam (Rehav’am)
c) Ahab (Ah’av)
d) Hezekiah (Hezkiyahu)
39) The term “lent” in Christianity is related to the:
a) Three special days before Christmas
b) Ascension of Jesus into heaven
c) Fast before Easter
d) Death of the first martyr
40) The beginning of Torah reading every year is in:
a) Rosh Hashana
b) Yom Kippur
c) Simchat Torah
d) Celebration of giving of the Torah – Shavuot
41) One of the regions where the “Jesus Trail” passes:
a) Mount of olives
b) Bethlehem
c) Mount Arbel
d) Kursi
42) The feast of the prophet Elijah (“el-Khader”) belongs to the following community:
a) Druze
b) Ethiopian
c) Karaite
d) Samaritan
43) The number of members of parliament in Israel is:
a) 18
b) 25
c) 120
d) Indeterminate
44) The personality for whom the wall was breached near the Jaffa Gate:
a) Emperor Frederick II
b) Emperor Franz Joseph
c) Emperor Wilhelm II
d) General Edmund Allenby
45) ANZAC soldiers fought in Israel at the:
a) End of the 17th century
b) End of the 18th century
c) End of the 19th century
d) Beginning of 20th century
46) The Rehob inscription (Ktovet Rehov) deals with the:
a) Establishment of an ancient synagogue in the area of today’s Ein Hanatziv
b) Confines of the Land of Israel
c) Secret of the ancient town at Hamat Gader
d) Special structure of the street in Susita
47) A temple of the Goddess Hat’hor was found at:
a) Mount Carcom
b) Ovda Valley
c) Timna Park
d) Tel Beit Shean
48) A recommended area for star observation:
a) Mitzpe Ramon
b) Givatayim
c) The Galilee panhandle (Etzba Hagalil)
d) Eilat
49) The Clandestine Immigration and Navy Museum is located in:
a) Nahariya
b) Atlit
c) Haifa
d) Ashdod
50) The map drawn during Napoleon’s campaign to the Middle East:
a) Peutinger’s Table
b) Jacotin
c) Bünting
d) Wilson
Good luck!
Heshvan 5780
November 2019
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotted for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
An Israeli group is interested in a tour in order to get acquainted with the Crusader period. The tour will take place on Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
The tour must include a variety of sites and subjects from at least three different geographical areas.
You must include at least six sites from the Crusader period.
The tour must include half a day in Jerusalem (no more and no less).
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, and must not be in Jerusalem.
A group of European hikers is interested in a tour in order to get acquainted with the area stretching from the Golan Heights to the eastern coast of the Kinneret (Lake of Galilee) and Mount Hermon. The tour will take place on Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
You must address geological, geomorphological and climatic aspects, as well as nature, history, archaeology, religions and human aspects.
A half-day hike (no more and no less) should be included in the course of these two days, with an emphasis on nature.
The elaborated point must be at a site related to one or more of the aforementioned aspects, but not of the following sites: Rehavam’s Arches (Umm el-Kanatir), Kazrin and the Biblical village, or Gamla.
A group of tourists from abroad is interested in exploring the Judean planes, Beer Sheba and its surroundings, and the Negev plateau. The tour will take place on Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
You must address history, archaeology, the human aspects, agriculture and produce.
You must include at least half a day in each of the above mentioned regions.
The elaborated point must be in the Judean planes and must concern at least two of the aspects mentioned in note no. 1.
Good luck!
June 2019
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotted for this section: 1 hour
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If
you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select
the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66
points.
1) Calcrete rock (nari) develops on one of the following rocks:
Chalk (kirton)
Basalt
Calcareous sandstone (kurkar)
Dolomite
2) A rabbi associated with the restoration of Tiberias:
Chaim Abulafia
Haim Farhi
Haim Ben Attar
Shimon ben Shetach
3) A stream that flows into the Jordan River:
Taninim
Tirza
HaBesor
Alexander
4) Zor and Ghor are terms connected with:
Yarkon
The reproductive organs of a flower
Mamluk architecture
Jordan
5) A natural resource found in large quantities in Israel:
Oil
Gas
Diamond
Iron
6) According to the Book of Joshua, Jerusalem was within the tribal territory of:
Reuben
Benjamin (Binyamin)
Dan
None of the tribes
7) Anemones in a variety of colors can be found mainly in:
The Gaza Envelope
The Judean Mountains
The valleys
The Negev
8) A bird invading the country in recent years:
Cinereous vulture (black vulture)
Jay (orvani)
Parakeet (drara)
Stork
9) The Og stream (nahal Og) is located in:
Carmel
The Judean Desert
Galilee
Aravah
10) The Jindas bridge crosses the following river:
Ayalon
Alexander
Sorek
Lachish
11) The term ‘bad’ in ‘beit ha’bad’, an olive oil press facility, refers to:
The crushing stone
The base stone
The weights
The wooden lever
12) A remnant from the Biblical period was found in excavations in:
Nebi Samuel
Magdala
Tel Beer Sheva National Park
Hippos (Sussita)
13) Burial of dogs in the country on a relatively large scale was exposed in:
Caesarea
Yaffo
Tel Qasile
Ashkelon
14) A site not recognized as a World Heritage Site:
Megiddo
Beit Jimal
Masada
Hazor
15) The ancient name of Caesarea:
Stratonos Tower (Migdal Sharshon)
Dio Caesarea
Diospolis
Decapolis
16) An Ottoman aqueduct is found in:
Avdat
Zedekiah’s Cave
Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta’ot
The ‘aqueduct beach’
17) Which was the latest revolt among the following:
The Great Revolt
The Kitos War (mered ha’tfutzot)
The revolt against Constantius Gallus
The Bar Kochba rebellion
18) The destruction of Jerusalem during the Second Temple period was completed in the
month of:
Tishrei
Av
Tamuz
Elul
19) A city established at the end of the Second Temple period:
Tiberias
Lod
Zipori
Acre (Acco)
20) The Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim is connected with:
Bahá’í
Ahmadi
Druze
Seljuq
21) A German Crusader compound in Jerusalem can be found in:
Damascus Gate
Viri Galilaei Church
The Jewish Quarter
The Armenian Quarter
22) The Karaite movement began in:
7th century
8th century
9th century
10th century
23) A distinct architectural feature of Mamluk construction:
Triglyphs
Muqarnas
Elbow column
Corinthian capital
24) The founder of Havat HaAlamot (“the maidens’ farm”) was:
Rachel the poetess (Rachel ha’meshoreret)
Golda Meirson
Manya Shochat
Hana Meisel
25) One of the first settlements established in Gush Etzion prior to the establishment of the
State of Israel:
Alon Shvut
Rehelim
Efrat
Kibbutz Revadim
26) A Roman triumphal arch can be seen in:
Caesarea
Yodfat
Jerusalem
Beit Guvrin
27) Palyam is:
The military sea force of the Palmach
The Jerusalem companies (plugot) of the Irgun (Etzel)
The name of an illegal immigrant ship
Lehi (F.F.I.) companies involved in bringing illegal immigrants to Israel
28) The menorah in the Emblem of Israel is taken from:
Matityahu Antigonus coin
The menorah on the Arch of Titus
The menorah in Magdala
The menorah in the Herodian Quarter
29) The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel was proclaimed on:
November 29th
4 Iyar
5 Iyar
May 15th
30) British military cemeteries can be found in:
Be’er Sheba and Ramle
Jerusalem and Ashdod
Haifa and Katzrin
Gaza and Nitzana
31) In the Madaba map, we won’t find in Jerusalem:
The Eastern Cardo
The Hagia Sion Church
The city walls
The Temple of Jupiter on the Temple Mount
32) The assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was in the year:
1993
1994
1995
1996
33) Shtula and Zar’it were established as:
Tower and Stockade (homa u’migdal) settlements
“Mitzpeh” settlements in the North
“Moshavim” in Galilee
IDF military outposts
34) For which of the following sites is a security clearance and coordination required?
Alexandrion fortress (Sartaba)
The Temple Mount
Shiloh
Ein Keshatot (Umm el-Qanatir)
35) 19th century explorer of the Land of Israel:
Richard Kauffmann
Conrad Schick
Erich Mendelsohn
Yigael Yadin
36) The inhabitants of Tuba-Zangariyye are:
Bedouin
Circassian
Druze
Shi’ite
37) The last King of Judah was:
Ahaziah (Ahazyahu)
Josiah (Yoshiyahu)
Zedekiah (Tzidkiyahu)
Jeconiah (Jehoiachin)
38) A special tax imposed on Jews under the rule of Islam:
Jizya
Tabu
Dhimmi
Jiftlik
39) A shtreimel is:
Piyyut (musical poetry) for Shabbat
Hasidic hat
Torah case
A belt for a Hasid’s coat
40) Flamingos can be watched and observed at:
Ein Tamir
Solomon’s pools
Rosh Hanikra
Salt ponds North to Eilat
41) The Jesus Trail and the Gospel Trail pass through:
Mount of Olives
Mount Zion
Kinarot Valley
The Banias
42) The “Sigd” holiday belongs to the following community:
Yemenite
Ethiopian
Karaite
Samaritan
43) The number of Knesset members in the Israeli Knesset is:
70
71
100
120
44) Eid al-Adha (Feast of the Sacrifice) is celebrated in:
Summer
Winter
Spring
Not in a fixed season
45) Napoleon’s campaign in the Land of Israel took place at:
End of the 17th century
End of the 18th century
End of the 19th century
Beginning of the 20th century
46) The Emperor Franz Joseph visited our region on occasion of:
The inauguration of the Suez Canal
Breaching of the New Gate
Inauguration of the Hejaz railway
Breaching of the Jaffa Gate
47) HaMizgaga Museum (Glass Factory Museum) is located in:
Yeruham
Haifa
Kibbutz Nahsholim
Zichron Yaakov
48) The “Israel Aquarium” is in:
Haifa
Eilat
Jerusalem
Tel-Aviv
49) A Museum of Prehistory is located in Kibbutz:
Dafna
Ma’ayan Baruch
Ginosar
Yir’on
50) The train station in Jerusalem is named after:
Haim Weizman
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Zalman Shazar
Yitzhak Navon
Good luck!
June 2019
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotted for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Israeli hikers is interested in a tour in order to get acquainted with the RomanByzantine period (70-638 CE). The tour will take place on the days Monday and Tuesday
between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
The tour must include a variety of sites and subjects from three different geographical
areas.
You must include at least three sites from the Roman period and at least three sites from
the Byzantine period.
The tour must include half a day in Jerusalem (no less and no more).
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, and must not be in Jerusalem.
.
A group of tourists from the United States, aged between 20-40, is interested in a tour
introducing them to the desert in the Land of Israel. The tour will take place on the days
Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
You must address geological, geomorphological, and climatic aspects, as well as
addressing nature, history, religions, and man in the desert.
A half-day hike (no more and no less) should be included in the course of these two days,
with emphasis on nature.
You can tour the Judean Desert, or the Negev Desert, or both.
The elaborated point must concern a site related to one or two of the aforementioned
aspects.
.
A group of students from Europe is interested in a tour along the coastal plain of Israel. The
tour will take place on the days Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
The tour area is West to Road no. 4, between Rosh HaNikra (included) and the Gaza
Strip.
You must include in the itinerary at least one site related to Judaism, one site related to
Christianity and one site related to Islam.
The elaborated point must be related to a Christian site.
Good luck!
/ Kislev 5779
/ November 2018
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If
you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select
the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66
points.
1) Basalt rock can be found in:
a) The Jerusalem Mountains
b) The Judean Lowlands (shfelat Yehuda)
c) The Coastal Plain (mishor ha’hof)
d) The Golan Heights
2) The stream of Dishon is found in the:
a) Carmel
b) Judean Desert
c) Galilee
d) Arava
3) The northernmost among the following rivers is:
a) Nahal Taninim
b) Nahal Betzet
c) Nahal Kishon
d) Nahal Alexander
4) A contact spring (ma’ayan shikhva) can be found in the area of the following rock:
a) Limestone
b) Granite
c) Kurkar (calcareous sandstone)
d) Chalk (kirton)
5) The Dead Sea is approximately:
a) 300 m below sea level
b) 400 m below sea level
c) 500 m below sea level
d) 600 m below sea level
6) The “Turtle Bridge” is found in:
a) The Hulah Lake Park (Agmon HaHula)
b) Nahal Alexander
c) Yarkon Park
d) Nahal Kishon
7) A tree which is not characteristic of the Mediterranean woodland:
a) Arbutus (ktalav)
b) Terebinth (ela erets-israelit)
c) Palestine oak (alon matsuy)
d) Golden wreath wattle (Acacia saligna) (shita makhila)
8) Ben-Zion Israeli is connected with:
a) Purchase of land
b) Bringing of date palms to Eretz Israel
c) The National Water Carrier (ha’movil ha’artzi)
d) Beginning of settlement in Rosh Pina
9) Safed was hit by a severe earthquake in the year:
a) 1099
b) 1261
c) 1799
d) 1837
10) The tribe of Asher was assigned the following area:
a) Western Galilee
b) Golan Heights
c) Negev
d) Samaria
11) Places where Tyrian purple (argaman) dye was extracted in ancient times:
a) Jerusalem and Safed
b) Hatsor and Megiddo
c) Dor and Apolonia
d) Caesarea and Dan
12) The burial of babies in jars was customary during the period:
a) Chalcolithic
b) Iron II
c) Hellenistic
d) Mamluk
13) A desecrated altar was found in the excavations of the city gate of:
a) Dan
b) Gezer
c) Lachish
d) Bethsaida
14) In Judaism, burial in ossuaries (gluskemaot) first appeared in the:
a) First century B.C.E
b) Eighth century B.C.E
c) First century C.E
d) Fourth century C.E
15) Waterworks from the Second Temple period:
a) Tunnel wells (fugarot)
b) Nahal Taninim dam
c) The aqueduct in kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot
d) The Pool of Bethesda
16) Judah the Maccabee won a great victory in:
a) Battle of Hattin (Karnei Hittin)
b) Emmaus
c) Akra (Hakra)
d) Ebenezer (Even HaEzer)
17) The earliest among the following figures is:
a) Rabbi Akiva
b) Hillel the Elder
c) Ezra the Scribe
d) Gemaryahu Ben Shafan
18) Remnants of a Roman Legion camp can be found:
a) At the foot of Masada
b) At Qumran
c) In Caesarea
d) In Ramat Rachel
19) Ruins of an Umayyad palace were found:
a) In Belvoir Fortress (Kochav Hayarden)
b) On the Shores of the Sea of Galilee (Kinneret)
c) In Ramla
d) In Acre
20) The Knights’ Halls in Acre are remnants of:
a) A Hospitallerian compound
b) A Templars compound
c) A Genoese compound
d) A Venetian compound
21) A distinct architectural feature of Crusader construction:
a) Ablaq
b) Muqarnas
c) Elbow columns
d) Corinthian capital
22) Name of the Crusader king at the Battle of Hattin:
a) Raynald of Châtillon
b) Richard the Lionheart
c) Baldwin V
d) Guy de Lusignan
23) Part of the Mamluks’ policy was:
a) Development of the coastal cities
b) Destruction of the coastal cities
c) Construction of fortresses in the Negev
d) Destruction of roads in the Land of Israel
24) A large part of the treasures of the Jezreel Valley were purchased from the family:
a) Al-Husseini
b) Salama
c) Nuseibeh
d) Sursock
25) The commander of the “Convoy of 35” (shayeret ha’lamed he) was:
a) Yigal Allon
b) Yitzhak Rabin
c) Dani Mass
d) Tuvia Kushnir
26) The Peutinger Map describes the roads in our region in the following period:
a) Hellenistic
b) Roman
c) Muslim
d) Crusader
27) A concentration of milestones is found near:
a) Givat Yesh’ayahu
b) Damascus Gate in Jerusalem
c) The Muristan square in Jerusalem
d) Nitzana
28) Richard Kauffmann was:
a) Mayor of Jerusalem
b) Founder of the Electric Company in Eretz Israel
c) Chairman of the Palestine Bureau (Eretz Yisrael Office)
d) An architect during the British mandate period
29) The first Templer colony in the Land of Israel was established in:
a) Haifa
b) Sarona
c) Jerusalem
d) Alonei Abba (Waldheim)
30) The first railway line that operated in the Land of Israel was:
a) The Valley Train (rakevet ha’emek)
b) The Hejaz Train
c) Haifa – Beirut train
d) Jaffa – Jerusalem train
31) In which aliyah came the largest number of immigrants to the Land of Israel?
a) First aliyah
b) Second aliyah
c) Fourth aliyah
d) Fifth aliyah
32) The number of residents in Tel Aviv-Yafo in 2018 is approximately:
a) 250,000
b) 400,000
c) 600,000
d) 800,000
33) A site that requires security coordination and permission by the armed forces to visit it:
a) Mount Karkom
b) The Temple Mount
c) Nebi Samuel
d) Mount Bental
34) Mass is a term connected with the following denomination:
a) Russian Orthodox
b) Syriac Orthodox
c) Evangelistic
d) Catholic
35) A biblical story which would interest a Christian tourist in Jaffa, is connected with:
a) Spies
b) David and Goliath
c) Jonah the prophet
d) Job (Iyyov)
36) In a unique column capital in the Room of the Last Supper, one can identify the figure of:
a) A stork
b) A female pelican
c) A winged angel
d) An eagle
37) On Lag BaOmer, a celebration is held near the tomb of:
a) Rabbi Akiva
b) Bar Kochba
c) “Ribaz”
d) “Rashbi”
38) The King David Hotel bombing took place in:
a) 1939
b) 1946
c) 1947
d) 1948
39) Vessels that do not get impure,(are not contaminated). according to Jewish Halacha are
those made of:
a) Wood
b) Stone
c) Clay
d) Iron
40) The inhabitants of Zarzir are:
a) Druze
b) Bedouin
c) Circassian
d) Christian
41) The Yodfat ridge is located in:
a) Lower Galilee
b) Upper Galilee
c) Golan Heights
d) Ramat Yissachar
42) Closest to the Gaza Strip is:
a) Rahat
b) Lahav
c) Beersheba
d) Nir Am
43) The site referred to as “The Tigers Temple” is located in:
a) Nimrod’s Fortress (qal’at namrud)
b) Uvda Valley
c) Kedesh
d) Kibbutz Samar
44) The Ramadan fast occurs:
a) In the summer
b) In the winter
c) In the spring
d) Not in a fixed season
45) Jerusalem was declared the capital of the State of Israel in:
a) 1947
b) 1948
c) 1949
d) 1967
46) The Three Pilgrimage Festivals (shloshet haregalim) are:
a) Pesach, Sukkot, Rosh HaShana
b) Pesach, Shavuot, Yom haKipurim
c) Sukkot, Pesach, Shavuot
d) Hanukah, Pesach, Shavuot
47) A city that was established for the Bedouin population:
a) Rawabi
b) Susya
c) Drijat
d) Rahat
48) A Samaritan community is settled in:
a) Mount Ebal (Har Eival)
b) Tel Asur (Har Baal-Hatzor)
c) Mount Gerizim
d) Shiloh Valley
49) Remnants of the lower aqueduct to Jerusalem can be seen at:
a) Hezekiah’s Pool
b) The “Government House” Ridge (armon ha’natziv) (Talpiot East)
c) Independence Park (gan ha’atsma’ut)
d) Pool of Siloam (brechat ha’shiloah)
50) Habima Theater was established in:
a) Moscow
b) Tel-Aviv
c) Jerusalem
d) Berlin
Good luck!
Kislev 5779
November 2018
TOUR GUIDE LICENSE EXAMINATION
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Israeli travelers is interested in a tour on the subject of Islam in the Land of Israel.
The tour will take place on the days Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
1. The tour must include a variety of sites and subjects from at least three periods.
2. The tour should include half a day in Jerusalem (no less and no more).
3. The tour areas are of your choice.
4. The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
A group of tourists is interested in a tour on the subject of the First Temple period in the Land
of Israel. The tour will take place on the days Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00
each day.
Please note:
1. The tour must include at least three different geographical areas.
2. The municipal boundaries of Jerusalem are excluded.
3. The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
A group of students from Europe is interested in a tour of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv – Jaffa.
The tour will take place on the days Monday and Tuesday between 8:00 and 19:00 each day.
Please note:
1. In each city you must include a variety of sites, such as: a historical non-religious site, a
religious site, a recreation site and a museum.
2. The elaborated point must be related to the British Mandate period in Jerusalem or in
Tel-Aviv – Jaffa.
Good luck!
Kislev 5778
November 2017
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number:________________ ID number:____________________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1) Wadi Og is located in:
a) The Golan Heights
b) Lower Galilee
c) The Negev Mountains (Har HaNegev)
d) The Judean Desert
2) Ancient synagogues in the Valley of Kinnarot (Bik’at Kinnarot):
a) Hippos (Sussita) and Sussia
b) Ein Nashut and Deir Aziz
c) Khirbet Wadi Hamam (Hurvat Vradim) and Magdala
d) Gamla and Magdala
3) One of the following roads was not an international road:
a) King’s Highway (Derekh HaMelekh)
b) Route of the Patriarchs (Derekh HaAvot)
c) The Coastal Route (Derekh HaYam)
d) The Mail Route (Darb-el-Barid/Derekh HaDoar)
4) A Prime Minister buried on the Mount of Olives (Har HaZeitim):
a) Menachem Begin
b) Golda Meir
c) Moshe Sharet
d) Yitzhak Shamir
5) The name for Damascus Gate in Arabic is:
a) Bab al-Amud
b) Bab al-Khalil
c) Bab al-Asbat
d) Bab Jaffa
6) Yosef Haim Brenner was:
a) Chairman of the Poalei Tziyon workers movement
b) Buried in the Kinneret Cemetery
c) One of the founders of Rosh Pina
d) A writer murdered in Jaffa during the 1921 riots
7) Petah Tikva was founded in the year:
a) 1882
b) 1878
c) 1914
d) 1860
8) Operation “Ezra and Nehemiah” is the name given to the Aliyah of Jews from:
a) Ethiopia
b) Morocco
c) Iraq
d) Yemen
9) The tomb of Maimonides (Rambam) is found in:
a) Mount of Olives
b) Safed
c) Tiberias
d) Cordoba in Spain
10) Name of a Nabataean God:
a) Asherah
b) Dushara
c) Jupiter
d) Mithras
11) Which of the following is a seabird?
a) Common blackbird (Shachrur)
b) Merops (Shrakrak)
c) Hoopoe (Duchifat)
d) Pelican (Saknay)
12) The Karaite World Center is located in:
a) The Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem
b) Mount of Olives
c) Ramla
d) Moshav Matzliah
13) According to tradition, one of the sites where Satan tried to tempt Jesus was:
a) Bethsaida
b) Chorazin (Korazim)
c) Nazareth
d) Jerusalem
14) The tuff on Mount Carmel is:
a) A type of volcanic rock
b) Ritual site
c) Endemic plant
d) A type of sedimentary rock
15) The Islamic calendar is:
a) Solar and lunar
b) Solar
c) Lunar
d) Contains 11 months
16) A church on the name of Santa Anna is found in:
a) Magdala, Jerusalem
b) Tabgha (Ein Sheva), Zippori
c) Zippori, Jerusalem
d) Jish (Gush Halav), Nazareth
17) “Ahl al-Kitab” refers to:
a) Jews and Christians
b) Druze and Jews
c) Bedouins and Zoroastrians
d) Christians and Buddhists
18) The accepted etiquette in many churches is:
a) Not to enter with sandals
b) To remove head covers (hats)
c) Not to cross your legs when seated
d) Answers b. and c. are correct
19) “Mobileye” is the name of:
a) An Israeli technology company
b) The unit of convoy leaders in 1948
c) A Crusader princess
d) The inspection unit of the National Water Carrier of Israel (HaMovil HaArtzi)
20) A monument for Alexander Zaid is found in:
a) Mount Tabor
b) Beit She’arim
c) Kfar Giladi
d) Degania
21) The City Line (HaKav HaIroni) in Jerusalem was established following the:
a) Dayan – Abdullah al-Tall agreements
b) “Partition Resolution”
c) Rogers Plan
d) Six-Day War
22) A memorial site for an American president is found in:
a) Tel Aviv
b) Kiryat Malakhi
c) Ben Gurion Airport
d) The Jerusalem mountains
23) The Acre (Acco) prison break took place in:
a) 1938
b) 1943
c) 1947
d) 1948
24) A settlement established after the establishment of the State of Israel:
a) Sde Boker
b) Nir Am
c) Holon
d) Ma’ale Hahamisha
25) The 1st Maccabiah was held in:
a) Jerusalem
b) Ramat Gan
c) Tel Aviv
d) Modi’in
26) The former name of Ilaniya:
a) Mass’ha
b) Ja’uni
c) Sejera
d) Um-Juni
27) The Nili underground organization operated in:
a) The Warsaw Ghetto uprising
b) Jerusalem
c) During the British Mandate
d) The First World War
28) A settlement that was destroyed and rebuilt under the same name:
a) Kabri
b) Beit HaArava
c) Kfar Masaryk
d) Nir Etzion
29) Pistil (amud haeli) is:
a) The peak of the mound (tel) in Shilo
b) The part that connects the flower to the stem
c) The organ that produces pollen in a flower
d) The female reproductive part of a flower
30) Ibex (Yael) can be sighted in Israel mainly in:
a) The Hula Lake Park (Agmon HaHula)
b) Carmel Hai-Bar
c) The Judean Desert
d) Ein Yael
31) The national watershed in the Jerusalem area passes through:
a) Mount Herzl – Mount Ora
b) Mount Zion – The Temple Mount
c) Mount Scopus (Har HaTsofim) – Mount of Olives
d) The train station – Hechal Shlomo
32) The new train station in Jerusalem will be:
a) Adjacent to the International Convention Center (Binyanei Ha’Uma)
b) In the area of Malha
c) At the Khan Theater
d) On Mount Herzl
33) A site of wind turbines for the production of electricity is found in:
a) Gilboa
b) Jerusalem Mountains
c) Tabor
d) Hermon
34) Soft-shell turtles can sometimes be seen in:
a) Dishon Stream
b) Yarmuk River
c) Nahal Alexander
d) Saar Stream
35) An artifact that distinctly characterizes the Chalcolithic culture:
a) Collared-rim jar (kankan sfat zavaron)
b) Butter churn
c) Axe for torturing
d) Sarcophagus
36) A burial site for dogs was discovered in:
a) Gaza and Ashkelon
b) Gath (Gat) and Jaffa
c) Acre (Acco) and Haifa
d) Ashkelon and Jerusalem
37) Samson’s stories are found in the book of:
a) Joshua
b) Judges
c) Samuel 1
d) Samuel 2
38) A prophet who does not make part of the Twelve Minor Prophets (Trei Asar)
a) Amos
b) Micah
c) Zechariah
d) Isaiah
39) The “Theodotus inscription” is related to:
a) Prohibition to enter the Temple Mount
b) A synagogue from the Second Temple period
c) Robinson’s Arch
d) The New Church of the Theotokos (The Nea)
40) An inscription mentioning a list of the “priestly divisions”( Mishmarot haKehuna) was found in:
a) Safed (Tsfat)
b) Rehov
c) Caesarea
d) Jerusalem
41) In order for a mikveh to be valid (kosher), it must have:
a) A volume of over 40 seah and pumped water
b) A volume of over 40 seah and un-pumped water
c) A volume of over 40 seah and seven stairs
d) A volume of over 40 seah and plaster preventing seepage
42) Most of the ruins in the Carmel are attributed to the period:
a) Herodian
b) Byzantine
c) Umayyad
d) Crusader
43) The wall in the mosque facing Mecca is called:
a) Minbar
b) Mihrab
c) Minaret
d) Qibla
44) The earliest figure among the following:
a) Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai
b) HaGaon Rabbenu Eliyahu (HaGra)
c) Morenu HaGadol Rabbi Loew (Maharal)
d) Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi
45) A Site dating from the Umayyad period:
a) Hurvat Minim (Khirbet al-Minya)
b) The Pool of Arches (Brechat Ha’Kshatot) in Ramla
c) Horns of Hattin (Karnei Hittin)
d) Lod
46) The last British High Commissioner left the country on:
a) November 1947
b) April 1948
c) May 1948
d) July 1949
47) A day that is not a fast day in Judaism:
a) The 9th of Av (Tishah be-Av)
b) The 11th of Adar (Yod Alef be Adar)
c) The 17th of Tammuz (Shiv’ah Asar be Tammuz)
d) The 3rd of Tishrei (Gimmel be Tishrei)
48) At Horns of Hattin (Karnei Hittin) there is:
a) A Canaanite and Israeli settlement
b) A Byzantine and Abbasid settlement
c) A Byzantine and Ottoman settlement
d) A Crusader fortress and a modern Jewish settlement
49) A city which Suleiman the Magnificent surrounded by a wall:
a) Jaffa
b) Tiberias (Tveria)
c) Safed (Tsfat)
d) Haifa
50) The earliest arches in Eretz Israel date back to the period:
a) Chalcolithic
b) Canaanite
c) Roman
d) Abbasid
Good luck!
Kislev 5778
November 2017
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Israeli travelers is interested in an in-depth tour of the new Jewish settlement (from the 19th century to the present) in preparation for Israel’s 70th anniversary. The tour departs from Tel Aviv on Monday at 8:00 and ends in Rosh Pina on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. The tour must include a half day in Tel Aviv, a half day in the Jezreel Valley and one day in the Galilee.
2. You should include at least two sites related to the pre-state era and two sites related to the period after the establishment of the State of Israel.
3. The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, but not in Tel Aviv.
.
A group of students from abroad is interested in a tour following the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The tour departs from Nazareth on Monday at 8:00 and ends in Jerusalem on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. The tour must include: half a day in Nazareth, half a day in the Valley of Kinnarot (Bik’at Kinnarot) and one day covering the Jordan Valley area and Jerusalem.
2. The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, but not in the Church of the Annunciation, not in the region of the Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) and not in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
.
A group of tourists from England is interested in Eretz-Israel during the British Mandate period. The tour departs from Rosh HaNikra on Monday at 08:00 and ends in Tel Aviv on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. The first day should be in the Western Galilee, the Northern Coastal Plain up to Haifa, including Haifa.
2. The second day must include at least a half-day tour in Tel Aviv.
3. The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, from the first day itinerary only!
Good luck!
Heshvan 5778
June 2017
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number: _________________ Identity Card number: ______________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
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1. The Tzalmon River is in:
a. The Golan Heights
b. Lower Galile
c. The Judean Mountains
d. The Mountains of Samaria
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2. Synagogues in The Golan Heights are found in:
a. Sussiya and Susita
b. Ein Nashut and Deir Aziz
c. Deir Aziz and Magdala
d. Gamla and Chorazim
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3. “The Post Office Route” dates to which period?
a. Roman
b. Byzantine
c. Crusader
d. Mamluk
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5. A prime minister who is NOT buried in Har Herzl (Herzl Mount) is:
a. Levi Eshkol
b. Golda Meir
c. Moshe Sharet
d. Yitzhak Shamir
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5. The name for Jaffa Gate in Arabic is:
a. Bab al Amoud
b. Bab al Khalil
c. Bab al Asbat
d. Bab al Yafa
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6. The buildings at the Suzanne Dellal Center were once used as:
a. Schools
b. Electric power facilities
c. Houses belonging to Aharon Shalush
d. The Saraya
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7. The year in which Tel Aviv was established:
a. 1906
c. 1907
c. 1908
d. 1909
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8. “Magic Carpet” is a name given to the Aliyah of Jews from:
a. Ethiopia
b. Morocco
c. Bulgaria
d. Yemen
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9. The gravesite of Baba Sali is found in:
a. The town of Sali
b. Sderot
c. Netivot
d. Amuka
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10. A mosque attached to a baptistery were found in:
a. Shivta
b. Mamshit
c. Nitzana
d. Avdat
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12. The southernmost bird sanctuary in Israel is found in:
a. The Hai Bar in Yotvata
b. Yoash Mountain
c. Timna Mountain
d. Eilat
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12. The Samaritans do not observe:
a. Rosh haShana (New Year)
b. Yom haKipurim (Day of Atonement)
c. Hanukah
d. Sukkot (Succoth; Feast of Tabernacles)
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13. According to tradition, one of the sites where Satan tried to tempt Jesus was at:
a. The Mount of Olives
b. The Quarantal
c. Mount Zion
d. Kathisma
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14. The Mesubim junction is named after a site mentioned in:
a. Megillat Ta’anit (The Scroll of Fasting)
b. Serekh haYahad (the community rule scroll)
c. The Passover Haggadah
d. Megillat Eikha (Lamentation)
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15. The Jewish calendar year is based on:
a. The sun and the moon
b. The sun
c. The moon
d. None of the above is true
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16. The “Duc in Altum” church is found in:
a. Magdala
b. Tabha
c. Capernaum (Kfar Naum)
d. The Mount of Olives
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17. The term “Dhimmi” in Islam means:
a. Dancing/whirling dervish
b. People of the Jahiliyya period
c. Heretics
d. Non Muslim citizens of an Islamic state
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18. The accepted etiquette in a church is:
a. Not to enter with sandals
b. To remove head covers (hats)
c. Not to cross your legs
d. Answers b. and c. are correct
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19. The following were the first to break into the old city of Jerusalem in the Six Day War:
a. The Har’el and the Jerusalem Brigade
b. The Paratroopers and the Jerusalem Brigade
c. The tank reconnaissance and the Har’el Brigade
d. The Paratroopers and Golani Brigade
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20. The term “the eyes of the State of Israel” refers to:
a. Mount Tabor
b. The Mitzpeh haYamim Mountain
c. The Hermon Mount
d. Mount Meron
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21. The “security fence”(security barrier) was constructed following:
a. The Dayan – Abdalla a-Tel agreement
b. The Yom haKippurim War (War of Atonement)
c. The 2nd Intifada
d. The Tzuk Eitan (Strong Cliff) Operation
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22. A commemorative site for female combat troops is found in:
a. “The joined control position”
b. Palmahim
c. Akhziv
d. Nitzanim
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23. From where did the “Etzel” fighters depart before they stormed the Acre prison?
a. Shuni
b. Hanita
c. Atlit
d. Ramat Raziel
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24. A settlement founded after the creation of the state:
a. Arad
b. Nir Am
c. Holon
d. Nahariya
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25. Places where the poetess Rachel lived:
a. Degania and Motza
b. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
c. Kinneret and Yavne’el
d. Alumot and Kfar Tavor
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26. The previous name of Kfar Tavor:
a. Mess’ha
b. Ja’uni
c. Sejera
d. Umm-Juni
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27. Palmach is an acronym (short) for:
a. Military forces of overseas volunteers (plugot mitnadvey hutz la’arets)
b. Special forces (Plugot meyuhadot)
c. Units of special operation tasks (plugot messima ve’habala)
d. Strike forces (plugot maִִhatz)
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28. The united underground movement was active in the years:
a. 1917 to 1920
b. 1939 to 1945
c. 1945 to 1946
d. 1948 to 1949
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29. A stamen is:
a. The organ of the flower that produces the pollen
b. The name of an insect that helps pollination
c. The part that connects the flower to the stem
d. The pollen
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30. It is possible to watch eagles in Israel primarily in:
a. The Hula Agamon
b. The Carmel hai bar
c. The bird sanctuary in Eilat
d. Wadi Kelt
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31. The national watershed passes in Jerusalem at:
a. Mount Herzl – Mount Ora
b. Armon haNatziv – Temple Mount
c. Mount Scopus – Mount of Olives
d. Ketef Hinom – Romema
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32. A road that was paved by the Gdud haAvoda:
a. Ramat Rachel – Bethlehem
b. Tiberias – Tzemaִh
c. Amiad – Farod
d. Ashdod – Be’er Sheba
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33. A desert region is where the annual precipitation is:
a. Above 500 mm
b. 300-400 mm
c. 200-300 mm
d. Up to or less than 200 mm
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34. A river which was נוקה and became a tour site:
a. Nahal Alexander
b. Nahal Yagur
c. Nahal Kidron
d. Nahal David
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35. A period named after the use of metal:
a. Paleolithic
b. Neolithic
c. Chalcolithic
d. Holocene
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36. A Philistine burial site was recently discovered in:
a. Gaza
b. Gat
c. Revadim
d. Ashkelon
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37. Alters abolished during the 1st Temple period:
a. Ramat Rachel and Lachish
b. Tel Arad and Tzuba
c. Lachish and Tel Be’er Sheva
d. Tel Be’er Sheva and Tsfat (Safed)
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38. According to the Biblical text, Channa prayed in:
a. Mitzpah
b. Shiloh
c. Rama
d. Bethel
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39. The stepped stone building in G area in the City of David is dated to the:
a. Late bronze – Iron age I
b. Early bronze age
c. Persian period
d. The Hasmonean period
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40. According to tradition. Alexander the Great met Simon the Righteous (Shim’on
haTsadik, the high priest) in:
a. Jericho
b. Sartaba
c. Gaza
d. Antipatris
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41. Ritual baths with 3 partitions on the stairs were found in:
a. Ramat Rachel
b. The Ophel
c. Masada
d. Qumran
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42. A street dating to the 2nd Temple period, that ascends from the Shiloh pool to
Robinson’s Arch was built:
a. By Herod the Great
b. By Simon the Hasmonean
c. After the days of Pontius Pilate
d. By Nehemiah
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43. Remains of churches from the Byzantine period are found in the north mainly in:
a. The Golan Heights
b. Eastern Galilee
c. The Meiron area
d. Western Galilee
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44. The earliest figure among the following:
a. Ramban (Maimonides)
b. Ramban (Nachmanides)
c. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
d. Raban Yochanan ben Zakai
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45. A site dating to the Abbasid period:
a. The arches pool in Ramla
b. Karnei Hittin (Horns of Hittin)
c. Lod
d. Arsuf
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46. The remains of a sugar production plant from the Crusader period can be seen in:
a. Acre (Akko)
b. Kochav haYarden (Belvoir)
c. Khirbet Manot
d. Ma’iliya
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47. The Crusaders entered Jerusalem in 1099:
a. At the Tancred tower
b. Near the Flower Gate
c. Through Lions Gate
d. Through Zion Gate
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48. A ruler who destroyed fortresses from the 5th Crusade:
a. Baibars
b. al Hakim bi Amar Allah
c. Dar el Omar
d. al Malik al Mu’azzam Isa
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49. A kibbutz in the region of Judea and Samaria:
a. Ofra
b. Kfar Etzion
c. Tirzah
d. Tapuach
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50. The “Great Schism” in Christianity was in:
a. 451 CE
b. 325 CE
c. 1054 CE
d. 1095 CE
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GOOD LUCK!
Heshvan 5777
June 2017
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: Three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
An Israeli group is interested in a tour along the Syrian African Rift Valley from north to south. The tour begins on Monday at 08:00 at the Hula Agamon, and ends in Moshav Tsofar on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The boundaries of the tour are: In the north – the Hula Agamon. In the south – Moshav Tsofar. In the east and west – up to 3 km off Road no. 90, within the borders of the country.
The tour must include at least 3 sites north of Beth She’an and 3 sites south of Beth She’an.
The tour must include the following subjects: Geology, flora and fauna, archaeology, history, settlements and achievements of the State of Israel.
The elaborated point – of your own choice, but must NOT be Masada or Qumran.
A “Taglit” group from the United States is interested in a tour of Jerusalem, entitled: Jerusalem as a Capital City – from a divided to a united city (from 1949 to 2017). The tour will start on Monday at 08:00 at Binyanei Ha’uma (ICC), and will end on Tuesday at 19:00 at the Western Wall.
Please note:
The boundaries of the tour: The municipal boundaries of Jerusalem in 2017.
The tour must include the following subjects: The Municipal Line, the Six Day War, government institutions, neighbourhoods built after 1967, commemorative institutions and museums.
The elaborated point must relate to the municipal line or the Six Day War.
A group of tourists from Turkey are interested in Israel under the Ottoman Rule, in the years 1516 till 1918. The tour will depart from Acre on Monday at 08:00 and will end in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
Do NOT include topics relating to Zionist settlement enterprise, western influences or Christian missionaries.
The elaborated point must relate to an Ottoman development enterprise.
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GOOD LUCK!
Heshvan 5777
November 2016
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. The following site has the highest altitude:
a.Khirbet Qeiyafa
b.The Temple Mount – Jerusalem
c.Halhul
d.Nebi Samuel
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2. Which is not a bird of prey?
a.Raven
b.Aya (Pernis)
c.Prize (vulture)
d.Kestrel
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3. The Big Machtesh is located on the following ridge:
a.Hadera
b.Hatira
c.Yerucham
d.Mahmal
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4. Measures taken to prevent fires in forests and woods in Israel:
a.Increased grazing and the creation of fire-breaks
b.The planting of Jerusalem pine and utilizing planes for fire-fighting
c.The creation of fire-breaks and the prevention of grazing
d.The planting of oaks and the reduction of access roads for vehicles
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5. An “Abrasion Table” is a term related to:
a.Date harvesting
b.A type of Roman inscription
c.Geomorphology
d.Mikvaot (Jewish ritual baths)
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6. In the blooming season in Israel the flower that blooms first:
a.Anemone
b.Buttercup
c.Colorful Hermon (tulip)
d.Poppy
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7. Carbon 14 dating can be implemented on:
a.Ceramics
b.Metals
c.Organic materials
d.Igneous (Magmatic) rocks
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8. The Rule of Narmer was discovered in the area of:
a.Tel Arad
b.Maresha
c.Jerusalem
d.Na’aran
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9. The House of David inscription from Tel Dan is from which century?
a.11th century BCE
b.10th century BCE
c.9th century BCE
d.8th century BCE
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10. The Biblical expression: “Would you murder and take possession?” is connected to:
a.The City of David
b.Gibeah
c.Tel Yizrael (Jezreel)
d.Muchraka
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11. The following prophets lived during the Second Temple period:
a.Haggai and Amos
b.Zachariah and Malachi
c.Isaiah and Amos
d.Jeremiah and Ezekiel
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12. “Volutes” are found in:
a.Elbow capitals
b.Corinthian capitals
c.Doric capitals
d.Ionic capitals
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13. The area of the Temple Mount in Herod’s days was approximately:
a.15 dunams
b.150 dunams
c.250 dunams
d.500 dunams
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14. A hippodrome that was converted into an amphitheater was discovered in:
a.Beit Guvrin
b.Beit Shean
c.Jericho
d.Masada
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15. Archaeologists identified Herod’s throne room in:
a.Herodion
b.Machaerus
c.Caesarea
d.Masada
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16. A synagogue from the period of the Mishna and the Talmud containing a mosaic depicting an image identified as Samson was found in:
a.Magdala
b.Khirbet Vradim (Wadi Hammam)
c.Umm el-Kanatir
d.Tel Ashqelon
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17. Sites where the Sanhedrin was located:
a.Yoqneam and Usha
b.Susita and Beit Shearim
c.Shfaram and Safed
d.Usha and Tiberias
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18. The Caliph al-Hakim is connected to:
a.The Druze
b.The Circassians
c.Bahai
d.Ahmadians
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19. The decisive battle for the conquest of the Land of Israel by the early Muslims was in:
a.Ein Jalut
b.Yarmouk
c.The Horns of Hattin
d.Ramle
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20. Remains of Tancred’s tower can be found in:
a.Ramle
b.Acre
c.Jerusalem
d.Belvoir (Kochav Hayarden)
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21. Queen Melisende was from what ethnic origin?
a.French (from Anjou)
b.Syrian
c.Coptic
d.Armenian
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22. What can be found in Nebi Samuel?
a.A Crusader farmstead
b.A royal fortress
c.A Crusader fortress, a mosque and a synagogue
d.A Crusader sugar production facility
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23. An important historical source for the study of the Mamluk period is:
a.Mujir al-Din
b.Hassan al-Banna
c.Al-Muqaddasi
d.The Traveler from Bordeaux
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24. The following ruled the Land of Israel when the Spanish Expulsion took place:
a.The Crusaders
b.The Mamluks
c.The Ayyubids
d.The Ottomans
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25. The re-establishment of the Jewish community in Tiberias in the 16th century is connected to:
a.Dona Gracia
b.Rabbi Haim Abulafia
c.Daher el-Omar
d.Queen Berenice
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26. The smallest number of immigrants that remained in the Land of Israel from among all the waves of aliyah (immigration) before the establishment of the State were from the:
a.First Aliyah
b.Second Aliyah
c.Third Aliyah
d.Fourth Aliyah
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27. Jerusalem was declared the capital of the State of Israel in:
a.November 1947
b.May 1948
c.December 1949
d.June 1967
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28. A role (position) that David Ben-Gurion did not fill:
a.Minister of Defense
b.Speaker of the Knesset
c.Chairman of the Histadrut
d.Prime Minister
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29. Ze’ev Jabotinsky is connected to:
a.The First Aliyah
b.The Revisionist Movement
c.The founding of Lehi (F.F.I.)
d.The founding of the Palmach
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30. An Arab community in Wadi Ara:
a.Sahnin
b.Baka al-Gharbiye
c.Umm el-Fahem
d.Beit Zarzir
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31. A city founded during Muslim rule:
a.Tiberias
b.Gaza
c.Lod
d.Ramle
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32. The period of “austerity” relates to:
a.The end of the First World War
b.The period of the siege on Jerusalem during the War of Independence
c.The first decade of statehood
d.The eve of the six Day War
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33. The “Moses” and “Solomon” operations are related to:
a.The Sinai Campaign
b.The Six Day War and the capture of the Bay of Solomon
c.The Ethiopian Aliyah/immigration
d.The Yemenite Aliyah/immigration
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34. Jericho is located in area:
a.A
b.B
c.C
d.G
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35. Primary Jewish texts from the Roman and Byzantine periods include:
a.The Torah and Midrash (Midrashim, pl.)
b.The Kuzari and the Guide for the Perplexed
c.The Mishna, the Torah and the Shulchan Arukh
d.The Mishna and the Talmud
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36. The number of work prohibitions on the Sabbath:
a.613
b.36
c.39
d.365
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37. The reading of the “weekly portion” is taken from:
a.The Torah
b.The Mishna
c.The Talmud
d.The Book of Zohar
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38. The two “CREDO” in Christianity are of:
a.Paul and Chalcedon
b.Ephesus and Vatican II
c.Jerusalem and Constantinople
d.The Apostles and Nicaea
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39. In Christianity a “relic” is:
a.A wall bearing icons
b.A sacred remnant
c.An apse
d.A podium for liturgical hymns
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40. An octagonal church from the Byzantine period is located at:
a.Abu Ghosh
b.Korazim
c.Mt. Beatitudes
d.Caesarea
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41. Rak’ah in Islam is:
a.The name of Mohammad’s Jewish wife
b.The organization of the verses in the Koran
c.The name of the cycle of movements during prayer
d.The Prophet’s marvelous horse
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42. Mt. Tabor is:
a.A graben
b.A horst
c.A volcano
d.An igneous intrusion
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43. Golan Druze are located in:
a.Buq’ata and Ein Kiniya
b.Reichaniya and Majdal Shamms
c.Mas’ade and Hurfeish
d.Beith Jann and Samiya
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44. The percentage of salt (salinity) in the Dead Sea is around:
a.10%
b.30%
c.45%
d.70%
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45. A Philistine cemetery was recently discovered in:
a.Tel Gat (Tel Tzafit)
b.Ashdod
c.Tel Ashqelon
d.Tel Qasile
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46. The Center for Art and Culture in Tel-Aviv:
a.The Agnon home
b.The Hecht museum
c.Suzanne Dellal
d.The Paratrooper’s house
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47. The Dead Sea Scrolls include:
a.Only texts that belong to the Essene sect
b.A variety of texts that reflect different perspectives from the Second Temple period
c.Texts that are only known from Qumran
d.The Aleppo Codex (Keter Aram Tzuva)
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48. The future train station in Jerusalem will be:
a.At Ammunition Hill
b.In the area of Malha
c.Adjacent to the International Convention Center (Binyanei Hauma)
d.In the First Station complex
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49. A tourist site closest to Efrat:
a.Rachel’s Tomb
b.Solomon’s Pools
c.Ein Eitam
d.The Biyar Aqueduct
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50. The first desalination plant was erected in the following city:
a.Ashdod
b.Eilat
c.Ashqelon
d.Rishon Le’Tzion
GOOD LUCK!
Heshvan 5777
November 2016
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: Three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Israeli students is interested in the history of the Land of Israel from the 19th century till today. The tour departs from Tel-Aviv on Monday at 8:00 AM and ends in the Kibbutz Ein Gedi Guest House on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour will focus on: Tel-Aviv, the route you choose to travel to Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Northern part of the Judean Desert till Ein Gedi (inclusive).
The tour must include a half day in Tel-Aviv and a half day in Jerusalem (no more and no less).
The tour must include at least one site from the following periods: the 19th century, the British Mandate, the War of Independence and a site from the period after the establishment of the State of Israel.
The elaborated point must take place at a site connected to the historical periods that the tour deals with. Do not choose an elaborated point in Jerusalem or Tel-Aviv.
A group of students from abroad is interested in a tour in the North of the country visiting sites from the Second Temple, Roman and Byzantine periods. The tour will start in Haifa on Monday at 08:00 and end in Katzrin on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The area of the tour and its geographical limits/boundaries: North of the Haifa–Beit Shean line.
The tour must include at least two sites from the Second Temple period and two sites from the Byzantine period.
The tour must include at least one site from each of the following geographic areas: The Kinnarot Valley, the Beit-Shean Valley, the Lower Galilee, the Upper Galilee and the Golan Heights.
The elaborated point must be related to the subject of the tour.
A group of tourists from the United States wishes to tour in the South of the country. The tour will depart from Beersheba on Monday at 08:00 and end in the airport at Uvda on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The area of the tour and its geographical limits/boundaries: South of the Kerem Shalom–Beersheba–Arava Junction line (includes Kerem Shalom and Beersheba). Eilat should not be included in the itinerary.
The tour must include a half day tour in Beersheba, two archaeological sites from different periods, two sites related to accomplishments of the State of Israel and two nature sites.
The elaborated point must be related to the subject of the tour.
GOOD LUCK!
Kislev 5776
December 2015
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number: _________________ Identity Card number: ______________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 answers will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. The paleo-magnetism site in Israel is in the following rock:
a. Chalk
b. Nari (Calcrete)
c. Basalt
d. Kurkar (Calcareous sandstone)
2. Cumulonimbus is a term connected to:
a. Geology
b. Botany
c. Anthropology
d. Climatology
3. An oak that is not indigenous (native) to Israel:
a. Cork oak
b. Boissier oak
c. Mount Thabor’s oak
d. Palestine oak
4. The Seven Species that the Land of Israel was blessed with: “a land of wheat and barley, vines, figs and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and…”:
a. Myrtle leaves
b. Honey
c. High quality oil
d. Almonds
5. Sycamore trees can be seen primarily in:
a. The Lowlands (shephela) and Coastal Plain
b. Upper Galilee
c. Arava
d. Golan
6. Which among the following is not a bird of prey?
a. Eagle
b. Vulture
c. Owl
d. Tristram’s Starling (Grackle)
7. An architrave is:
a. The beam on top of the pillars
b. The pediment in the façade of a temple
c. The room where the statue of the God is positioned
d. The upper part of an aqueduct
8. It is accepted that the first agricultural revolution occurred in the:
a. Iron Age
b. Chalcolithic period
c. Neolithic period
d. Early Bronze Age
9. Biblical sites in the Judean Lowlands (Shephela):
a. Ebenezer and Azeka
b. Tel Gezer and Tel Beit Shemesh
c. Kiryat Yearim and Tel Socoh
d. Tel Qasile and Tel Lachish
10. The verse: “and you counted the houses of Jerusalem and you pulled houses down to fortify the wall” is usually read to tourists:
a. At the house of Ahiel
b. Near the Broad Wall
c. At the Burnt House
d. In the Davidson Center
11. An amphitheater was discovered in:
a. Caesarea
b. Jerusalem
c. Tsippori
d. Beit Shearim
12. According to Josephus Flavius during the Great Revolt a massacre did not occur in:
a. Tiberias
b. Migdal
c. Yodefat
d. Jerusalem
13. One of the leaders who led the Return to Zion immediately following Cyrus’ Declaration was:
a. Ezra
b. Nehemiah
c. Gedaliahu Ben Ahikam
d. Zerubbabel
14. Alexander the Great arrived in the Land of Israel as a result of his wars with:
a. The Romans
b. The Persians
c. The Carthaginians
d. The Babylonians
15. One of the ancient aqueducts to Jerusalem originated from:
a. Solomon’s pools
b. Wadi El Qelt
c. Rosh Ha’ayin
d. Mei Naftoah
16. The burial place of two women whose names are “Etio” is located in:
a. The Beit Jamal Monastery
b. The Protestant cemetery on Mt. Zion
c. The Tombs of the Kings
d. Beit Shearim
17. Rabbi Akiva is connected to:
a. The War of Varus
b. The Kitos War
c. The Bar Kochba Rebellion
d. The Great Revolt
18. It is possible to view remains of Eudocia’s Wall in Jerusalem:
a. At Ketef Hinnom
b. At the Ophel
c. Next to the Mamilla Pool
d. On Mt. of Olives
19. The Abbasid Dynasty ruled the Land of Israel during the following centuries:
a. 8th-10th
b. 7th-11th
c. 9th-13th
d. 13th-14th
20. The largest Crusader fortress in Israel was in:
a. Montfort
b. Atlit
c. Safed
d. Kochav Hayarden (Belvoir)
21. Ablaq is:
a. Muhammad’s winged horse
b. A guilloche pattern made up of different colored stone masonry
c. Drop-like (stalactite) ornamentations
d. Shell-like ornamentation
22. The Empress Theodora was the wife of Emperor:
a. Justinian
b. Hadrian
c. Theodosius
d. Augustus
23. An agricultural settlement established by members of the Old Yishuv is:
a. Motza
b. Zichron Ya’acov
c. Ruhama
d. Rishon Le’Tzion
24. The remains of a 19th century winery were discovered in Tel-Aviv in:
a. The Tel-Aviv Port
b. Neve Tzedek
c. The Train Station Compound
d. Sarona
25. A settlement associated with Yitzhak Ben-Tzvi is:
a. Beit Keshet
b. Kefar Hanasi
c. Mesuot Yitzhak
d. Be’erot Yitzhak
26. Settlements in the Binyamin Region:
a. Elazar and Itamar
b. Efrat and Kedummim
c. Shiloh and Psagot
d. Ariel and Shoresh
27. The Eleventh (yod alef) of Adar is:
a. The date of Moses’ death
b. The date marking the events of Tel-Hai
c. General Kaddish
d. Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes’ Remembrance Day
28. A Nobel Prize Laureate:
a. Dr. Chaim Weizmann
b. Prof. Yeshayahu Leibowitz
c. Prof. Ada Yonath
d. Prof. Yuval Ne’eman
29. The Sinai Campaign (war) took place in:
a. 1953
b. 1954
c. 1955
d. 1956
30. A site where a boat stands commemorating the ships of the clandestine immigration (“haapala”):
a. Atlit
b. The Caesarea Beach
c. The Kefar Vitkin Beach
d. The Palmachim Beach
31. The Prime Minister of Israel during the Six Days War:
a. Levi Eshkol
b. Menachem Begin
c. Yitzhak Rabin
d. David Ben-Gurion
32. The Piyyutim (musical poetry) for Selichot (penitential prayers) among the Sephardic Jews start:
a. At the beginning of the month of Tishrei
b. At the beginning of the month of Elul
c. On the Ninth of Av
d. On the seventeenth of Tammuz
33. Shabbetai Tzvi was active during the following century:
a. 14th
b. 15th
c. 16th
d. 17th
34. A festival not emanating from the Torah is:
a. Tu Be’shvat
b. Shavuot
c. Shemini Atzeret
d. Passover
35. Jewish burial in Kokhim (loculi) was practiced:
a. During the period of the Judges
b. In the days of the Return to Zion
c. From the Hellenistic Period
d. During Iron Age II
36. “Stand up, take your mat and walk. At once the man was made well…” is connected to:
a. The Siloam Pool
b. The Pools of Bethesda
c. El-Azariya
d. Bethsaida
37. The inter-twined (inter-woven) Greek letters X and P represent:
a. Messiah
b. Prophet
c. God
d. Messenger
38. The 19th century Templers originated from:
a. Alsace
b. Russia
c. Wurttemberg
d. Austro-Hungary
39. The Circassians originate from:
a. Mongolia
b. The Caucasus
c. Lebanon
d. Crete
40. A time of day that a Muslim does not pray:
a. Dawn
b. Mid-day
c. Sunrise
d. All of the above
41. Nebi Musa is located in:
a. The Golan Heights
b. The Judean Desert
c. Samaria
d. The Negev
42. The Sakhnin Valley is located:
a. Between the Nazareth and Tur’an ridges
b. Between the Tur’an and Yodefat ridges
c. Between the Shaghur ridge and the Tsurim escarpment (slopes)
d. Between the Yodefat and Shaghur ridges
43. An altar in the shape of a boat is located in:
a. Kursi
b. Sussita
c. Magdala
d. Ginossar
44. The rout of the “Land of Pursuit” is located (“eretz hamirdafim”):
a. East of Jerusalem, in the Jordan Valley area
b. East of the Gaza Strip
c. Adjacent to the Northern border
d. Between the volcanoes in the Golan Heights
45. A hanging (suspended) tree sculpture designed by the sculptor Ran Morin is located in:
a. Sejera
b. Haifa
c. Nazareth
d. Jaffa
46. A site where “Free Masons” have been known to convene (gather):
a. The Hulda stairs
b. The Nicanor cave
c. Zedekiah’s cave
d. The Tombs of the Kings
47. Sites identified with Emmaus of the New Testament:
a. Qubeibeh and Abu Ghosh
b. Colonia (“motsa”) and Tsuba
c. Hamat Gader and Hamat Tiberias
d. Latrun and Kathisma
48. A site where a locomotive is stationed as an exhibit for visitors:
a. Oron
b. Nitsana
c. Dimona
d. Beersheba
49. The inspiration for the design of the dome on the Shrine of the Book was:
a. The Dome of the Rock
b. The lid of an urn
c. A dome that was located in the Temple
d. A man’s head covering (“kippa”)
50. Kibbutz Kerem Shalom is located in the sand dunes of:
a. Shunra
b. Kisui
c. Khalutza
d. Nitsana
GOOD LUCK!
Sivan 5776
December 2015
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: Three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
.
A group of Israeli tourists interested in touring in the North-West of the country. The tour departs from Nachsholim on Monday at 8:00 and ends in Gesher Ha-Ziv on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. The tour should not extend east or south of Road no. 70, and no further north than the Northern Road (Kvish Hatzafon). Hanita and Rosh Hanikr may be inciuded.
2. It is possible to include up to four hours of touring in Haifa and up to four hours of touring in Acre.
3. The tour must include at least 4 sites each day outside of Haifa and Acre.
4. The elaborated point must be outside of Haifa and Acre.
A group of students from abroad interested in a tour focusing on various traditions relating to Christian sites in the Holy Land. The tour will start in Jaffa on Monday at 08:00 and end in Kalia on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. Do not deviate north of the Jaffa-Modiin-Allenby Bridge line. Do not deviate south of the Ashdod-Jerusalem-Qumran line.
2. The tour must include two sites from each of the following areas: the coastal plain, the Judean Lowlands (Shephela), the Jerusalem Hills and the Judean Desert
3. The tour must include half a day in Jerusalem – no more and no less.
4. The elaborated point must be at a site relating to the subject of the tour and not in Jerusalem.
A group of tourists from northern Europe have chosen to tour Eilat and its surrounding area. The tour will depart from Eilat on Monday at 08:00 and end in Eilat on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
1. Do not deviate north of a line from Sayarim junction (on Roud 12) to Kibbutz Yotvata, or West, East and South of the political borders of Israel.
2. The tour must include four attractions in Eilat.
3. The tour must include half a day in the southern Arava and half a day in the Eilat Mountains
4. Overnight accommodation has to be in a hotel in Eilat.
5. The elaborated point must be connected to the region being toured.
GOOD LUCK!
Kislev 5775
June 2015
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. Terra Rossa soil is formed out of:
1. Sand stone
2. Granite
3. Lime stone
4. Chalk (Kirton).
2. Graben is the opposite of:
1. An endemic animal
2. A horst
3. Low barometric pressure
4. A Tel
3. In afforestation in Israel Pine trees are often used because they are:
1. Fire resistant
2. Resistant to diseases and pests
3. Suitable to the local climate and fast growing
4. Used for industrial purposes
4. The Short-toed Eagle’s (Hivyai) main sources of food are:
1. Insects
2. Snakes
3. Plants
4. Fish
5. Which of the following is not one of the “seven species”? (Shiv’at haMinim)
1. Olive
2. Barley
3. Citron (Etrog)
4. Date
6. The Gihon (inverted syphon) in the Amud stream is associated with:
1. The national water carrier
2. Electricity in Naharayim
3. Water to Magdala
4. The early aqueduct to Tiberias
7. The term “headers and stretchers” indicates:
1. Lichen appearing on a rock
2. A method of stone laying in the building of walls
3. Arrow heads from the Roman period
4. The name given to the Pharisees in the New Testament
8. Burial in ossuaries appears in Israel for the first time during:
1. The Chalcolithic period
2. The First Temple period
3. The Second Temple period
4. The Mishna and Talmudic period
9. An archaeological finding from the Second Temple period in the Israel Museum is:
1. The Shiloah Inscription
2. Anthropoid
3. The Theodotos Inscription
4. The Wadi Mishmar (Nahal Mishmar) treasure
10. Standing stones in a cultic context from the First Temple period were found in:
1. Tel Arad
2. Hanemerim shrine
3. Timna
4. Tel Be’er Sheva
11. The relative advantage of agriculture in Israel is mainly the:
1. Westerly and easterly winds
2. Variety of soil types
3. High rainfall
4. Flexibility and professionalism of Israeli farmers.
12. Hannah’s prayer is associated with:
1. Shiloh
2. Bethel (Beit El)
3. Cave of the Patriarchs (Me’arat Hamahpela)
4. Givah
13. Ezra and Nehemiah lived in the:
1. Seventh century BCE
2. Sixth century BCE
3. Fifth century BCE
4. Fourth century BCE
14. One of the reasons that led to the Great Revolt was:
1. Hadrian’s decrees
2. The establishment of Aelia Capitolina
3. A dispute between Jews and Gentiles at the Hakra fortress
4. A dispute between Jews and Gentiles in Caesarea
15. “Give me Yavenh and its sages” was said by:
1. Hillel the Elder
2. Rabban Gamliel of Yavneh
3. Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai
4. Josephus
16. Names of “Azarot”(sections/courts) in the Second Temple were:
1. Ezrat Nashim and Ezrat Gvarim (women’s court and men’s court)
2. Ezrat Nashim and Ezrat Yisrael
3. Ezrat Cohanim and Ezrat Leviyim (the priestly court and the Levites court)
4. Ezrat Hagazit and Ezrat Haetsim
17. Synagogues from the Byzantine period were found in:
1. Modi’in and Sephoris (Tsipori)
2. En Gedi and Magdala
3. Bet Alpha and Bar’am
4. Capernaum (Kfar Nahum) and Gamla
18. Harun al-Rashid belongs to the dynasty of:
1. Umayya
2. Abbas
3. Fatimids
4. Ayyubids
19. A site from the Early Muslim period is:
1. Horvat Minim (Hirbet Minya)
2. Horvat Qeiyafa
3. Horvat Midras
4. Han el Sultan
20. The second crusade was intended to:
1. Liberate Acre
2. Liberate the Holy Sepulcher
3. Liberate Edessa
4. Fight against Saladin
21. Ruins of a Crusader church can be seen in:
1. Sephoris (Tsipori)
2. Capernaum
3. Mount of Beatitude
4. Kursi
22. The origin of the term “Postal Route” is from the:
Roman and Byzantine period
b. Crusader period
c. Mamluk period
d. Ottoman period (19th century)
23. A Crusader church that was converted into a mosque can be seen in:
1. Ramleh
2. Jaffa
3. Be’er Sheva
4. Haifa
24. The first Jewish neighbourhood outside Jaffa was:
1. Ahuzat Bayit
2. Neve Shalom
3. Neve Tzedek
4. Kerem haTeimanim
25. A Moshava established by Romanian Jews was:
1. Motza
2. Gedera
3. Petah Tikva
4. Rosh Pina
26. A settlement established after 1948 is:
Afula
b. Ma’aleh haHamisha
c. Nahariya
d. Arad
27. Tegart police stations are found in:
1. Ya’ara and Safed (Tzfat)
2. Nebi Yusha and Jerusalem
3. Abu Gosh and Hanita
4. Caesarea and Latrun
28. “Mivtza Kadesh” (Kadesh Operation) took place in:
1948
b. 1956
c. 1967
d. 1970
29. The aim of “Mivtza Yiftach” (Operation Yiftach) was to free the:
Gilad
b. Eastern Upper Galilee
c. Eastern shores of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
d. Western Lower Galilee
30. The characteristic features of a Mediterranean climate in Israel are:
1. Four distinct seasons a year
2. Relatively constant temperatures throughout the year
3. A mild, wet winter and a long, dry summer
4. A long winter with a constant temperature and a short, dry summer
31. In the peace accords with Jordan it was agreed, inter alia, that:
1. Jordan will provide Israel with water
2. Israel will provide Jordan with water
3. Israelis will be allowed to cross into Jordan on the Allenby Bridge
4. Two more crossings will be opened between the Arava crossing and the Allenby Bridge
32. For which of the following is a security clearance and co-ordination required?
1. Har Karkom
2. The Temple Mount
3. Tell Shiloh
4. Har Tzfachot
33. In which area is the settlement of Ofra located?
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. E
34. The meaning of “Kiddush levana” is:
1. Kiddush (blessing) of white wine
2. A blessing for a new month
3. A blessing for the returning of spring
4. A blessing for the full moon
35. A Shmita year is observed on the:
1. 5th year
2. 7th year
3. 10th year
4. 50th year
36. In the past, the Jews of Acre were buried in:
1. Kfar Yassif
2. Yarka
3. Jadide
4. Tel Regev
37. An active monastery in the Judean Desert is:
1. Martyrius, in Ma’ale Adumim
2. Euthymius, in Mishor Adumim
3. George, in Wadi Qelt
4. Haritun, in the Tekoa area
38. In Christian iconography the dove is usually a symbol of:
1. Mercy
2. The holy spirit
3. John the Baptist
4. Eternal life
39. An octagonal Byzantine church is found:
1. On Mount Gerizim
2. In Jaffa
3. In Arsuf
4. On Mount Beatitude
40. Umra is:
1. The Muslim festival of the Omer
2. The day the Qur’an was first discovered
3. The prophet’s night journey
4. Going on a pilgrimage to Mecca not during the Hajj
41. A settlement with a Shi’ite population is:
1. Gush Halav
2. Rehaniya
3. Daburiyya
4. Ghajar
42. The Druze house of prayer is called:
1. Diwan
2. Zawiya
3. Madrasa
4. Hilweh
43. One of the early names of the settlement at the tip of the Eilat bay is:
Timna
b. Uvda
c. Etzion Gaver
d. Kadesh Barne’a
44. The term “Ror” applies to:
1. The Jordan River’s lower floodplain terrace (Geon haYarden)
2. The Jordan Canal
3. The Jordan River’s upper floodplain terrace (Kikar haYarden)
4. Transjordan
45. A tourist site with a restoration of a Talmudic Village can be seen at:
1. Tel Dan
2. Neot Kedumim
3. En Yael
4. Katzrin
46. A museum that documents the history of the Valley Train is found in:
1. Kfar Yehoshuah
2. Afula
3. The old Gesher
4. Beit She’an
47. Ruins of a Bosnian settlement are found in:
1. Apollonia
2. Caesarea
3. Be’er Sheva
4. Ashkelon
48. Beit Jamal Monastery is associated with:
1. Stephen and Rabban Gamliel
2. Peter and St. Francis
3. Paul and Elisha ben Abuyah
4. John the Baptist and Yohanan ben Zavdi
49. The town of the “Bahadim” (army training camps) is being built in:
1. The Judean Desert
2. The Negev Heights (Ramat haNegev)
3. The Arad desert
4. Mitzpe Ramon
50. Wool industry from the Ottoman period was located in:
1. Meshushim stream
2. Betzet stream
3. Amud stream
4. Dalton stream
GOOD LUCK!
Sivan 5775
June 2015
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of students from abroad, interested in UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The tour departs from Tel Aviv on Monday at 8:00 and ends in Mitzpe Ramon on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should not extend north of Tel Aviv or south of the Dead Sea, and no further south than the Ramon Carter.
The route must exclude Jerusalem.
At least five World Heritage sites must be included.
The elaborated point must be related to one of these sites and must include the criteria for selecting it as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
A group of Jewish families from the United States (belonging to various streams of Judaism), want to have a Bar/Bat Mitzvah tour with an emphasis on Judaism and Zionism in the north of Israel. The tour will start in Acre on Monday at 08:00 and end in Tiberius on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
Do not deviate south of the Tzemach-Haifa line.
The tour must include half a day in the Golan Heights and half a day in Safed (Tzfat) – no more and no less.
The elaborated point must be at a site relating to the subject of Judaism or Zionism.
A group of Israelis request a two day tour in Jerusalem on the topic “Jerusalem Through the Ages”. The tour will depart on Monday at 08:00 and end on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour will include the Old as well as the New city of Jerusalem.
The tour must include at least seven different historical periods.
The elaborated point must be in the New City.
GOOD LUCK!
Tamuz 5773
June 2013
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. Which of the following flowers is never red?
Anemone (kalanit)
Sun’s-eye Tulip (tsiv’oni heharim)
Alkanet (leshon hapar)
Poppy (parag)
2. Ammonites were formed from:
Marine animals
Marine tuff
Mammal skeletons
The crystallization of flint
3. The Sakhnin Valley is located between the following ridges:
Tur’an and Nazareth
Meron and Shagor
Carmel and Samaria
Yodfat and Shagor
4. The Allon road is also called the:
Jordan Valley Road (kvish HaBik’a)
Ginosar Route (tsir Ginosar)
Northern Road (kvish HaTsafon)
“Land of the Chase” Road (Derekh Erets HaMirdafim)
5. Which region in Israel is the focus of the recent environmental battle against quarrying oil shale?
The Coastal Plain
The Judean Plain
The Mediterranean Sea bottom within Israeli territorial waters
The Golan Heights
6. At which of the following sites can ibex (ye’elim) be seen?
a. En Ya’el
b. Mt. Carmel
c. Valley of the Gazelles (Emek HaTsva’im)
d. En Avdat
7. When were coins first used in the Land of Israel?
The Iron Age
The Persian Period
The Hellenistic Period
The Roman Period
8. Which of the following has recently been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO?
Caesarea
Nahal Me’arot
Bet She’an
The Cave of the Treasure in Nahal Mishmar
9. In which century BCE did the campaign of Thutmose III occur?
17
16
15
14
10. The findings at Khirbet Qeiyafa are associated with an archaeological debate relating to which of the following periods?
The Joint Monarchy
Sennacherib’s (Sanherib) campaign
Hellenistic Period
Early Christianity
11. Samaria (Shomron), the capital of the Kingdom of Israel, was captured and destroyed by:
The Babylonian Empire
The Samaritans
The Chaldeans (Kasdim)
The Assyrian Kingdom
12. Which of the following was one of the Decapolis cities?
Caesarea Philippi
Scythopolis
Diospolis
Eleutheropolis
13. At which of the following sites did the Mayumas celebration occur?
Masada
Mt. Gerizim
Shuni
Sebastia
14. The Great Revolt broke out during the reign of:
Pompeius
Julius Caesar
Augustus
Nero
15. On which mountain is the southern Roman camp overlooking Masada located?
Mt. Ben Ya’ir
Mt. El’azar
Mt. Yishai
Mt. Namer
16. The name Haifa first mentioned in the:
Execration texts (kitvei hame’erot)
Old Testament
New Testament
Talmud
17. Which of the following remains were discovered in the archaeological excavations conducted opposite the Western Wall plaza?
The Herodian Cardo
The Roman Cardo
The Roman Decumanus
A Roman villa
18. At the time of the Hijra the Land of Israel was ruled by the:
Byzantines
Sassanids
Seljuqs
Khwarazmians
19. The remains of which crusader quarter in Akko are found mainly in the sea?
The Templar
The Teutonic
The Genoese
The Venetian
20. The Crusader fortifications at Bet Guvrin were established as part of the fortification system developed to lay siege to:
Tel-es-Safi
Yavne
Gaza
Ashkelon
21. Who ruled Jerusalem at the time of Nahmanides’ (Ramban) visit?
a. The Crusaders
b. The Ayyubids
c. The Mamluks
d. The Seljuqs
22. At which sites are there clock towers built in honor of Sultan Abdul Hamid II?
Tsfat, Ramle, Jerusalem
Shekhem, Haifa, Tsfat
Tiberias, Jerusalem, Akko
Be’er Sheva, Jaffa, Ashkelon
23. Which of the following was the second neighborhood built outside the Jerusalem city walls?
1. Nahalat Shiv’a
2. Yemin Moshe
3. Bet David
4. Mahaneh Yisrael
24. Where can we find British military cemeteries in Israel?
Tiberias, Haifa
Ramle, Be’er Sheva
Be’er Sheva, Shekhem
Jerusalem, Ashkelon
25. During which aliyah did the largest number of olim arrive?
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
26. The Jewish Legion (gedudim ivriyim) was active during:
World War I
World War II
The Arab Revolt of 1929
The Arab Revolt of 1936
27. The date chosen for Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) is related to which event?
Kristallnacht (crystal night, leil habdolah)
The Wannsee Conference
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising
The end of World War II
28. Through which of the following crossings is merchandise brought into Gaza?
Kerem Shalom
Karni
Erez
Kissufim
29. Where is the Monument to the Fighting Women (yad laisha halohemet) located?
a. Sdot Yam
b. Giv’at Haviva
c. Ramat Rahel
d. Nitsanim
30. At which of the following sites is there a museum dedicated to “illegal immigration” (ha’apala) and the Israel Navy?
Atlit
Haifa
Netanya
Kfar Vitkin
31. What is the “sigad”?
An Armenian festival
A Samaritan festival
A Kara’ite house of prayer
An Ethiopian festival
32. Bethlehem is locate in area:
a. A
b. B
c. C
E1
33. What is the first thing that should be done if one of your group members collapses and loses consciousness?
Open his/her mouth
Remove secretions
Call for help and keep everyone safe
Massage his/her heart
34. What are the Days of Atonement (yamim nora’im)?
The period between Holocaust Remembrance Day (yom hasho’a) and the IDF Memorial Day (yom hazikaron)
The period between the 17th of Tamuz and the 9th of Av
The period between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
The month of Elul
35. It is customary to read the Book of Lamentations (Megilat Eikha) on:
The Fast of Gedaliyah
Yom Kippur
The 17th of Tamuz
The 9th of Av
36. The Lord’s Prayer (Avinu SheBaShamayim) is written in many languages on the walls of a church located:
On the Via Dolorosa
On Mount Tabor
In En Kerem
On the Mount of Olives
37. The Christian Uniate churches are:
Eastern churches that acknowledged papal authority
Churches that believe that Jesus had human nature
Churches that believe that Jesus had divine nature
Protestant denominations
38. Which of the following sites is associated with Pentecost?
Mary’s Well in Nazareth
Qasr-al-Yahud
Mount of the Beatitudes (Har HaOsher)
The Room of the Last Supper
39. Hanifite, Shafi’ite, Hanbalite and Malikite are:
Sunni Islam schools of law
Shia Islam denominations
Major dynasties from the Early Arab Period
Mamluk military schools
40. How many suras are there in the Qur’an (Koran)
About 10
About 50
About 100
About 500
41. Nebi Sabalan is a holy site near:
The Horkanya Valley
Karne Hittin
Birket Ram
Mt. Meron
42. Azazme and Tarabin are names of:
Muslim villages in northern Samaria
Bedouin tribes in Israel
Two Sunni schools of law
Bedouin villages in the Galilee
43. The most ancient synagogue in the Golan Heights was found at:
Um-al-Qantir
Katsrin
Kanaf
Gamla
44. The story of the Yemenite Jews who came to the area of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) should be told at:
Um Junni
The Motor House (Bet HaMotor)
Bitanya Illit
Kursi
45. Between 1949 and 1967 The Hadassah Hospital on Mt. Scopus was:
Under United Nations control
Under Jordanian control
Under Israeli control
No man’s land (sheath hefker)
46. The shortest, most convenient route from Jerusalem to Herodium passes:
Near the Homat Shmuel (Har Homa) neighborhood
Near Migdal Oz
Through Efrat
Through the Tunnel Road (Kvish HaMinharot)
47. “The New Jewish Cemetery” of Yaffo from the early 20th century, is now known as:
The cemetery just south of Old Jaffa
Trumpeldor Cemetery
Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery
Kiryat Shaul
48. The Lakhish reliefs were found in:
Lakhish
Jerusalem
Nineveh
Azeka
49. Where is the “Cave of the Letters” located?
Nahal Hever
Nahal Tse’elim
Nahal David
Nahal Mishmar
50. Israel’s national bird is the:
Bulbul
Palestine sunbird
Griffon vulture
Hoopoe
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LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of tourists from abroad arriving on a cruise liner for a two-day tour in Israel to visit sites important to Christians of all denominations. The tour departs the Haifa Port on Monday at 08:00 and returns there at 19:00. On Tuesday the tour leaves the Ashdod Port at 08:00 and returns at 19:00.
Please note:
The first day of the tour must include Christian sites on Mt. Tabor and in the area of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee). Do not include Haifa, the Carmel or Akko.
The second day will be dedicated exclusively to Jerusalem. Three quarters of the program for the day will be devoted to Christian sites in Jerusalem and one quarter to becoming acquainted with Israel and the State of Israel in the Modern Period and in the present.
The elaborated point must be related to the theme of Christianity.
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A group of students from abroad interested in a tour focusing on Herod and his building projects in the Land of Israel. The tour departs from a hotel in Tel Aviv on Monday at 8:00, and ends at a hotel in Jerusalem on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should include the coastal area, one-half day (no more, no less) in Jerusalem, a site in the desert ecotone (sfar hamidbar) and a site in the Judean Desert. The order of the visits is at your discretion.
The program should not include Jericho and its surroundings.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme, but should not be in Jerusalem.
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A group of travel and tour agents from Jordan interested in settlement and agriculture in the Nabatean Period and in the Modern Period. The tour leaves on Monday at 08:00 from the Arava Crossing (Rabin Crossing) and ends at a hotel in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should not take place south of the Be’er Sheva-Arad line. Be’er Sheva, Tel Sheva, Arad and Tel Arad should not be included.
The city of Eilat should not be included.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
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December 2013
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. What sort of a spring is En Mabu’a in Nahal Prat (Wadi Kelt)?
A gravity spring
A fault spring
A thermal spring
A rhythmic (intermittent) spring
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2. Which of the following was an ancient dryland farming (haklaut baal) crop?
Eggplant
Pomegranate
Onion
Garlic
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3. In which of the following streams was the Nile softshell turtle population rehabilitated?
Alexander
Ammud
Shekhem (Nablus)
Tirtsa
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4. The following animal species was successfully restored to nature in northern Israel:
The mountain gazelle (tsvi eretsyisraeli)
The Nubian ibex (yael)
The Persian fallow deer (yah’mur)
The red deer (ayal adom)
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5. Which of the following plants is pollinated mainly by wind?
The common almond (shaked)
The bee orchid (dvoranit)
The olive (zayit)
The anemone (kalanit)
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6. Where can mountain gazelles (tsvi eretsyisraeli, Gazella gazelle) be seen?
In the southern Arava
In the Judean Mountains
In the Eilat Mountains
On Mt. Hermon
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7. A hypocaust is the:
Name of the Greek god of medicine
Running surface in stadiums
Warm water room in the bathhouse
Underfloor heating in the bathhouse
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8. Which is the most ancient of the following sites?
The Negev desert kites
The temple at En Gedi
Metsad Nekarot
The tunnel wells (fugarot)
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9. The site of Izbet Sarta is usually identified with:
Even HaEzer
Kiryat Ye’arim
Bet El
Philistine Gath
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10. With which of the following sites is Biblical Sha’arayim sometimes identified?
Tel Sokho
Azeka
Ekron
Khirbet Qeiyafa
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11. What is stucco?
Painted decorations on wet (fresh) plaster
Molded plaster
Painted decorations on dry plaster
An interlocking combination (tashliv) of colored stones
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12. A luxurious latrine from the Byzantine Period was found at:
The City of David (Ir David)
Akko
Bet She’an
The Hisham Palace (Khirbet al-Mafjar)
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13. The fortress Herod built on the northwestern part of the Temple Mount was named for:
Marcus Agrippa
Augustus
Sebastus
Marcus Antonius
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14. Which of the following was an inscription from the synagogue at Masada?
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones
Isaiah’s prophecy of the Last Days
The Priests Blessing (birkat cohanim)
Elazar ben Yair’s speech
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15. Zodiac wheel decorations were found at:
Migdal and Sephoris (Tsipori)
Bet Alfa and Bet She’arim
Hamat Tiberias and Bet Alfa
En Gedi and Um-al-Qantir
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16. Which remains were found in the southern section of Byzantine Jerusalem?
A triumphal arch
The Church of St. Stephanus
The Eleona Church
Hagia Sion
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17. During which period were ossuaries (gluskemaot) used for burial in the Land of Israel?
First and Second Temple
Chalcolithic and Second Temple
Bronze and Hellenistic
Second Temple and Crusader
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18. Where is the Mosque of Omar located?
Near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
On Mt. Zion
At the El-Omariya School
Near the Mamilla Pool
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19. During the 12th century the Crusaders built a system of fortifications for the purpose of laying siege to:
Gaza
Jerusalem
Ashkelon
Akko
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20. Which of the following was one of the leaders of the Third Crusade?
Gottfried of Bouillon
Raymond of St Gilles
Frederick II
Richard the Lion heart
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21. Baybars ordered the destruction of the following coastal towns:
Caesarea and Arsuf
Ashkelon and Atlit
Jaffa and Akko
Ashdod and Gaza
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22. The Capitulations:
a. Determined the rights of the various Christian denominations in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
b. Strengthened the authority of the foreign consuls
c. Provided entrance permits to the Land of Israel (Palestine) during the British Mandate
d. Were permits given by Muhammad Ali for building churches.
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23. Which of the following was a Bilu’im settlement?
Rishon LeTsiyon
Motsa
Gedera
Rosh Pina
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24. Which immigration wave was termed the “mass immigration” (ha-aliyah hahamonit)?
The Fifth Aliyah
The Ha’apalah (illegal immigration)
The immigration immediately following the establishment of the State of Israel
The immigration from Ethiopia
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25. The Austerity Regime (tsena) in Israel was in effect during the:
Global economic depression (1929)
War of Independence
First years following the establishment of the State of Israel
Period before the Six Day War
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26. ANZAC is the name of:
UNESCO’s cultural branch
The Australian and New Zealand forces that fought in Israel during the First World War
The Be’eri badlands (bitronot be’eri)
The committee that discussed the partition of Palestine
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27. Which of the following Israeli presidents was involved in the study of Jerusalem, the Land of Israel and Jewish communities in the east?
Chaim Weizmann
Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
Zalman Shazar
Yitzhak Navon
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28. In which case can a first aid provider determine death?
Following 20 minutes of unsuccessful CPR
Only when there are two first aid providers at the site
Only in cases of electrocution
In no case
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29. An arterial tourniquet should never be applied to the:
Neck
Calf
Thigh
Arm
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30. Which of the following is related to the Monument of the Fourteen (yad leyad)?
a. The Yehi’am Convoy
b. The Helicopter Disaster
c. The Night of the Bridges
d. The Mountain Brigade
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31. The peace treaty between Israel and Jordan was signed in:
1993
1994
1995
1996
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32. In which battle was the following command given: “corporals retreat, commanders stay and provide cover” (tura’im yisogu, mefakdim yisha’aru lehapot)?
Kastel
Ammunition Hill
Tel Hai
San Simon
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33. Ethiopian immigrants were brought to Israel in:
The return of Ezra and Nehemiya and the Magic Carpet (marvad haksamim)
A’aleh BaTamar and the Ofira Operation
The “Solomon” and “Moses” operations
The Hiram and Tarshish operations
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34. When are phylacteries (tefilin) put on?
Every day
On religious festivals
On Shabbat and Rosh Hodesh
Every day, except for Shabbat and festivals mentioned in the Torah
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35. The fast of Yom Kippur was determined by:
The Jewish Sages (derabanan)
The Torah (deoraita)
Maimonides
The Israeli Chief Rabbinate
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36. According to the New Testament, after his resurrection Jesus was found at:
Banias
Mt. Tabor
Bethlehem
The shores of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
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37. The Magnificat appears on the compound walls of the:
Church of the Beatitudes
Church of St. John in the Mountains
Church of the Visitation
Basilica of the Annunciation
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38. The Feast of Pentecost is related to:
Qumran
Mt. Zion
The Holy Sepulcher
The baptismal site on the Jordan River
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39. Which of the following, among others, does “Laylat al-Qadr” denote?
Accepting the commandment of prayer
The prophet’s night journey
The decree of the destinies (kviat hagoralot)
The last night of the Hajj
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40. The term Jizyah denotes:
The commandment of charity
The northern Arabian Peninsula
The protected religions
The per-capita tax levied on non-Muslims
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41. What does the term ‘uqal describe
A type of headdress
A type of obeisance in Muslim prayer
The people initiated into the secrets of the Druze religion
A title of respect for pilgrims who visited Mecca outside the Hajj
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42. In which century did most of the Circassians arrive in Israel?
19
18
17
16
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43. Which of the following streams marks the northern border of the Golan Heights?
The Yarmouk River
Nahal Roked
Nahal Snir
Nahal Sa’ar
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44. The Valley Railway (rakevet haemek) stopped at:
a. Kfar Saba
b. Kfar Yehoshua
c. Kfar Tavor
d. Kfar Kish
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45. Which of the following was the earliest Jewish neighborhood?
Neve Tsedek
Neve Shalom
Ahuzat Bayit
Kerem HaTeimanim
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46. Which of the following is an educational institution whose design was inspired by the Jerusalem Temple?
The Hebrew University campus at Giv’at Ram
The Haifa Technion
The Mikve Yisrael Agricultural School
The Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium in Tel Aviv
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47. The first stop Wilhelm II made on his visit to the Land of Israel was at:
Jaffa
Haifa
Akko
The Nahal Taninim delta
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48. The Dead Sea Works were founded by:
Pinhas Sapir
Pinhas Rotenberg
Simha Blass
Moshe Novomeiski
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49. Ben Gurion’s Tomb overlooks:
Nahal Tsin
Nahal Avdat
Nahal Paran
Nahal Mamshit
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50. At which of the following sites is there an observatory for migrating birds?
Ma’aleh Shaharut
Near Eilat
Timna Park
Ne’ot Smadar
.
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December 2013
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: three hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
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Group No. 1
A group of students from abroad come for a tour of biblical sites (from the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Iron Age). The tour departs from Be’er Sheva on Monday at 8:00, and ends at a hotel in Tel Aviv on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should not extend beyond the Be’er Sheva-Arad line (including Arad) to the south; the Shilo-Rosh HaAyin line (including Rosh HaAyin) to the north and Shilo-Arad to the east. There is no limit to the west.
The program must include at least three areas from the Northern Negev, Judean Plain, Judean Mountains, Samaria and the Coastal Plain.
Jerusalem should not be included in the tour.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
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Group No. 2
A group of tourists from the United States interested in sites related to Islamic religion and history and to sects that seceded (edot porshot) from Islam. The tour departs from a Jerusalem hotel on Monday at 08:00 and ends at Akko on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The southern limit of the tour is the Jerusalem-Ramle line (including Ramle). There are no limits in other directions.
The tour should include only a half day in Jerusalem, three hours in Haifa and only one Druze site.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
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Group No. 3
A group of young Christians on a tour in the footsteps of Jesus and his activity in northern Israel. The tour leaves the hotel in Tiberias on Monday at 08:00 and ends at a Nazareth hotel on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The southern limit of the tour is the Bet She’an-Haifa line (not including Haifa).
The tour must include a half day in Nazareth and a half day around Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), (no more and no less).
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme and be outside Nazareth and the area around Lake Kinneret.
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Kislev 5772
December 2011
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number: _________________ Identity Card number: ________________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. Which of the following can be found in the area of the Hyrcania Valley:
1. The Tomb of Nebi Sabalan
2. Nebi Musa
3. Jubb Yussef
4. Nebi Daniel
2. The following valley is located between the Yodefat ridge and the Tur’an ridge:
1. Beit Hakerem
2. Sakhnin
3. Beit Netufa
4. Bethsaida
3. The Biyar aquaduct feeds into:
1. Solomon’s Pools
2. The water cisterns at Herodion
3. The Bethesda pool
4. The Struthion pool
4. The planned route of the train to Jerusalem will pass through the following riverbed:
1. Sorek
2. Ma’ayanot (“springs”)
3. Rephaim
4. Yitle
5. An ancient site in the Golan Heights containing boulders configured in a circle is called:
1. Rujum el-hiri
2. Umm el-Kanatir
3. The Big Juba
4. Umm el-Umdan
6. Jerusalem was declared the capital of the State of Israel in:
a. 1947
b. 1948
c. 1949
d. 1967
7. There were stations of the “Valley Train” in:
1. Bar Giora and Kiryat Haroshet
2. Alro’i and Naharayim
3. Beit Yehoshua and Rosh Hanikra
4. Afula and Tivon
8. Which of the following neighborhoods built outside of the City walls was established first?
1. Mahane Yisrael
2. Nahalat Shiva
3. Ohel Moshe
4. Mea Shearim
9. Sacred numbers in the Bahai faith include:
1. 7, 77
2. 9, 19
3. 18, 19
4. 9, 13
10. The Circassians originate from:
1. Mongolia
2. Morocco
3. Caucasus
4. Bosnia
11. Moslem Halachah (law) is called:
1. Sura
2. Fatwa
3. Hadith
4. Sharia
12. Which of the following terms is connected to the Moslem religion?
1. Mashrabiya
2. Kal’ah
3. Raka’ah
4. Saraya
13. A Domus Ecclesia can be seen today in:
1. Kursi
2. Domus Galilaeae
3. Dominus Flevit
4. Capernaum
14. According to Christian tradition, the resurrection of Tabitha occurred in:
1. Talita Kumi
2. Al-Azaria
3. Jaffa
4. Lod
15. Pentacost marks the :
1. Ascension of Jesus to heaven
2. The decent of the Holy Spirit
3. c. Baptism in the Jordan River
4. The Transfiguration
16. A book of Halacha written by the Rambam (Maimonides):
1. Yad Hachazaka
2. Shulchan Arukh
3. Emunot Vedaiyot
4. The Kuzari
17. The poetic prayer “u-Netanneh Tokef” is said at:
1. Rosh Hashana
2. The Fast of Gedaliah (Tzom Gedaliah)
3. Yom Kippur
4. Tisha B’av (the 9th of Av)
18. You dress a bleeding wound on a hand and the bandage begins to get red. What should you do?
1. I would replace the bandage with a new one
2. I would place a tourniquet
3. I would place a pressure triangle on the bandage
4. There is no need to take action, as this is a known phenomenon
19. Which of the following has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site?
1. Metzad Nekarot
2. Caesarea
3. The Dead Sea
4. The Church of the Annunciation
20. In the Sinai Campaign (Kadesh Operation) there was cooperation between Israel and:
1. The U.S.
2. Germany and Great Britain
3. France and Great Britain
4. The Soviet Union
21. The Mandelbaum gate was utilized as:
1. A border passage between Israel and Lebanon
2. A border passage between Israel and Jordan
3. A transit station for new immigrants
4. Transit between the Shimon Hatzadik and the Sheikh Jarrakh neighborhoods
22. “Shabbtai Luzinsky” became famous upon its arrival at the following beach:
1. Nitzanim
2. Atlit
3. Palmachim
4. Kfar Vitkin
23. “The Gateway for Aliyah”(“Sha’ar Ha’aliyah”) was the nickname for:
1. The Port of Jaffa
2. The beginning of the 5th Aliyah
3. The Yemenite Aliyah
4. The immigrant transit camp (Ma’abarah) in Haifa
24. The water reservoir in the Beit Netofa valley is called:
1. Dalton
2. Eshkol
3. Sapir
4. Tsalmon
25. Herzl came to Jerusalem with the goal of meeting with:
1. Emperor Franz Josef
2. Lord Balfour
3. Kaiser Wilhelm II
4. Sultan Abdul Hamid II
26. The following is the “Biluim” Moshava:
1. Hadera
2. Gadera
3. Zichron Ya’acov
4. Rosh Pina
27. The British “Mission” began to act in Jerusalem:
1. During the first half of the 19th century
2. During the second half of the 19th century
3. As a result of and following the “Young Turks” revolution
4. At the beginning of the British Mandate Period
28. One can find Bezalel ceramics decorating buildings in:
1. Bezalel street in Jerusalem
2. The “Dagim” alley in Old Jaffa
3. Neve Tsedek
4. Rothschild blvd. in Tel Aviv
29. A Mameluke site in Safed (Tsfat):
1. The Abuhav Synagogue
2. The Red Mosque
3. The Saraiya
4. Beit Bosel
30. Structures that are associated with Daher al-Omar and his sons can be found in:
1. Tiberias and Sussita
2. Acre and Mukhraka
3. Shephar’am and Tsippori
4. Shephar’am and Jerusalem
31. The correct chronological order of the following rulers is:
1. Daher al-Omar, Ahmed al-Jazzar, Muhammad Ali
2. Daher al-Omar, Muhammad Ali, Ahmed al-Jazzar
3. Ahmed al-Jazzar, Daher al-Omar, Faher al-Din
4. Muhammad Ali, Faher al-Din, Daher al-Omar
32. The fortified tower in some of the Crusader fortresses is called:
1. A Cloister
2. Donjon
3. Dormitorium
4. Barbican
33. The Crusader fortress in Beit Guvrin was built for the purpose of:
1. Protecting the farmers’ fields
2. Protecting the road to Ashdod
3. To be used as the residence of Fulk of Anjou
4. To constitute one of the fortifications encircling Ashkelon
34. Characteristic remains from the Abbasid period can be found in:
1. Nimrod Fortress
2. Ramla
3. Caesarea
4. Acre
35. He was Rabbi Judah the Prince’s close friend:
1. Caracalla
2. Caligula
3. Tiberius
4. Marcus Aurelius
36. According to tradition, Helena identified the following sites:
1. The site of the Visitation in Ein Karem and the site of the visit in Alonei Mamre
2. The site of the Room of the Last Supper and the site of the Ascension to Heaven
3. The site of the Nativity and the site of the Crucifixion
4. The site of the Annunciation and the site of the Praetorium
37. The Dead Sea Scrolls include:
1. Only sectarian texts
2. Only Biblical texts
3. An ancient version of the New Testament
4. Biblical and sectarian texts
38. According to the Theodotus inscription, during the Second Temple period, synagogues were used for:
1. Communal ceremonies
2. Reading the Torah and the study of the commandments (Mitzvot)
3. Public prayer
4. All of the above
1. The Holy of Holies was located in the following side of the Temple:
1. West
2. East
3. North
4. South
40. Metopes and Triglyphs are characteristic of which style?
1. Romanesque
2. Greek
3. Corinthian
4. Doric
41. The Four Spaced house is characteristic of:
1. Philistine culture
2. Courtyards in the Moshavot of the Lower Galilee
3. The First Temple period
4. The Early Bronze Age
42. The “Broad Wall” is dated to:
1. The end of the 7th century BCE
2. The end of the 8th century BCE
3. The days of Nehemiah
4. The beginning of the Hasmonean period
43. A Canaanite gate exists in:
1. Dan, Ashkelon, Megiddo
2. Dan, Jerusalem, Gezer
3. Hazor, Jerusalem, Megiddo
4. Ashkelon, Lachish, Jerusalem
44. A Roman Bath is located in:
1. Tel Beersheva
2. Rosh Zohar
3. The Lotz pools
4. Avdat
45. Rumex cyprius (Knotweed) can be found:
1. In the Menashe Hills
2. In the Judean Desert
3. On the Carmel
4. On the Hermon
46. A Sunfish (Pterois) is:
1. A predatory fish common to the Red Sea
2. A kind of glowworm
3. A night butterfly
4. An edible fish in the Sea of Galilee
47. A Rudist is:
1. Basaltic rock
2. Granite rock
3. A fossil
4. A Coral glow
48. One can see a full moon at:
1. The end of a month according to the Gregorian calendar
2. The beginning of the month according to the Muslim calendar
3. At the beginning of the Hebrew month
4. In the middle of the Hebrew month
49. The Mining of phosphates in Israel takes place in:
1. The Dead Sea
2. The Ovda Valley
3. The Tzin riverbed
4. Timna
50. Which of the following belongs to a different category?
1. Tristram’s Grackle (Tristram’s Farling)
2. Palestine Babbler
3. Wheatear
4. Gerbil
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Kislev 5772
December 2011
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: two and a half hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
Anthropology students from abroad are interested in religions in the Galilee in the modern era (contemporary). The tour embarks from Nazareth on Monday at 08:00 AM and ends in Safed (Tsfat) on Tuesday at 19:00 PM.
Please note:
You must stay within the borders (geographic parameters) delineated on the map.
The program must include two religious sites in Nazareth (no more and no less) and two religious sites in Safed (no more and no less).
The guiding point must be connected to the subject.
When planning the itinerary, you must present at least 4 different religions and relate to other sites in addition to those in Nazareth and Safed.
A group is touring in Crusader and Mameluke sites in the coastal plain, Jerusalem and its environs, with an emphasis on history, archaeology and architecture. The tour embarks from Herzliya on Monday at 08:00 AM and finishes in Jerusalem on Tuesday at 19:00 PM.
Please note:
You must stay within the borders (geographic parameters) delineated on the map.
The itinerary must include a complete day in the Coastal Plain and Jerusalem’s environs (no more and no less) and another complete day in Jerusalem proper.
The itinerary must include at least two Mameluke sites (they can be adjacent to each other or far apart, but must be within the defined areas on the map).
Do not include the Stations of the Cross (Via Dolorosa) on the itinerary
The Guiding point must be connected to the subject
You must prepare an itinerary for a “Birthright” group on the subject of settlement of the South throughout the ages. The tour embarks from Ashdod on Monday at 08:00 AM and finishes at Yeruham on Tuesday at 19:00 PM.
Please note:
You must stay within the borders (geographic parameters) delineated on the map.
The program must present at least four periods, including Zionist settlement.
The first day must be – geographically – between Ashdod and Beersheva and the second day must take place south of Beersheva.
The Guiding point must be connected to the subject.
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Iyar 5771
May 2011
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number: _________________ Identity Card number: ________________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1. The first fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis (Bereshit) is the:
1. Apple
2. Hazelnut
3. Fig
4. Bramble (atad)
2. Nahal Tavor flows into:
1. The Jordan River
2. Nahal Harod
3. Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
4. Nahal Kishon
3. A lichen (hazazit) is a:
1. Geological phenomenon
2. Fungus
3. Type of desert plant
4. Alga and a fungus
4. What is patina?
1. A type of dolomite
2. A crust formed on the surface of rocks
3. Light soil in the coastal area
4. A type of chalk rock
5. The following plants are characteristic of Mediterranean woodland in Israel:
1. Jerusalem pine (oren yerushalayim) and terebinth (ela erets-yisraelit)
2. Christ’s thorn jujube (shezaf) and Quercus oak (alon matsuy)
3. Quercus oak (alon matsuy) and terebinth (ela erets-yisraelit)
4. Eastern strawberry tree (ktalav) and carob (haruv)
6. What is plate tectonics?
a. A Roman military strategy
b. Abrasion platforms (luhot gidud) along Israel’s Mediterranean coast
c. A geological theory that explains, among other things, the phenomenon of the Syrian-African Rift Valley
d. Another name for the dolmens found in the Golan Heights
7. To which period do the earliest pottery artifacts date back to?
1. The Iron Age
2. The Early Canaanite
3. The Chalcolithic
4. The late Neolithic
8. Gedalya ben Ahikam was one of the leaders of:
1. The Galilean Jewish community during the Great Revolt
2. The Masada uprising
3. The rebellion against the Babylonians
4. The Jews remaining in the Land of Israel following the destruction of the First Temple
9. Which of the following are majorprehistoric sites in Israel:
1. Ubeidiya and Nahal HaMe’arot
2. Nahal Amud and Rosh Pinna
3. Sha’ar HaGolan and Migdal
4. Bet Zayit and the Kastel
10. The “First Wall” according to Flavius Josephus dates back to the days of:
1. Hezekiah (Hizkiyahu)
2. The Hasmoneans
3. Herod the Great
4. Agrippa I
11. With which siege are the Lakhish pottery shards associated with?
1. Assyrian
2. Babylonian
3. Aramaic
4. Egyptian, from the days of Shishak
12. What is stucco?
1. Molded plaster
2. Painted decorations on dry plaster
3. Painted decorations on wet (fresh) plaster
4. Stone carving
13. Which of the following sites has no Hasmonean remains?
1. Sartaba
1. Hyrcania (Horkania)
2. Herodium
3. Masada
14. Where was the stone with the inscription “To the trumpeting place…” (lebet hatekiah) located?
1. In the western corner of the Antonia Fortress
2. In the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount
3. In the northeastern corner of the Hakra Fortress
4. At the head of Robinson’s Arch
15. A synagogue dating back to the Second Temple Period was discovered in:
1. Hamat Tiberias
2. Rehov
3. Bet Alfa
4. Migdal
16. To which dynasty did Harun al-Rashid belong?
1. Umayyad
2. Fatimid
3. Abbasid
4. Ayyubid
17. Who captured the Philistine cities of Ekron and Ashkelon?
1. Sennacherib (Sanherib)
2. Sargon II
3. Nebuchadnezzar
4. Alexander the Great
18. The remains of two monumental gates from the late Roman Period were found in:
1. Jerusalem and Bet She’an
2. Tiberias and Ashkelon
3. Tel Dan and Tsefat
4. Masada and Jerusalem
19. Which of the following pairs of sites were destroyed by the same earthquake?
1. Jaffa and Chastellet (Metsad Ateret)
2. Akko and Hirbet al-Minya
3. Bet She’an andHirbet al-Mafjar
4. Herodium and Moa
20. Major mosques named for Omar can be found in:
1. Jerusalem and Lod
2. Jaffa and Jericho
3. Kafr Kanna and Akko
4. Jerusalem and Tsefat
21. The Crusader fortress of Belvoir (Kokhav HaYarden) was captured by the:
1. Mamluks
2. Ayyubids
3. Fatimids
4. Seljuks
22. Tanzimat:
1. An Ottoman national liberation movement
2. Reforms in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century
3. Special taxes imposed on minorities in Palestine in the late 19th century
4. Restrictions on building synagogues according to the Pact of Umar
23. Who came to Israel in the early 19th century?
1. Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi and his disciples
2. Rabbi Nahman of Breslev and his disciples
3. The Biluim
4. The disciples of the Vilna Gaon
24. Which of the following was designed by the architect Richard Kaufman?
1. The cooperative in Merhavia
2. The Kinneret Courtyard
3. Nahalal
4. Ilaniya
25. “His Majesty’s government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people…”. This is a quotation from the:
1. General Allenby’s declaration at the ceremony of Jerusalem’s surrender
2. The Balfour Declaration
3. The declaration by the first High Commissioner – Sir Herbert Samuel, who was of Jewish origin
4. Ahad HaAm’s article – “Past and Future”
26. “Operation Solomon” is related to the immigration of Jews to Israel from:
1. Iraq
2. The Soviet Union
3. Yemen
4. Ethiopia
27. How many popes visited Israel?
1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
28. Which of the following settlements was one of the three outposts (mitspim) established in the Negev?
1. Nitsanim
2. Negba
3. Be’eri
4. Gevulot
29. The community of Merhav Am is located:
1. In the Jordan Valley, near the road in memory of Rehav’am Ze’evi
2. In the Golan Heights, near Um-el-Kanatir
3. In the Negev, between Sede Boker and Yeroham
4. West of Eilat, near Mt. Rehav’am
30. What was the “Reparations Agreement”?
1. Compensation given to Holocaust survivors by North American Jewish Organizations
2. Compensation given to the State of Israel and Holocaust survivors by the German government
1. Financial relief given to Holocaust survivors by the Israeli government
2. Payment given by the Israeli government to victims of terrorist attacks
31. To which of the following military campaign is the capture of the Mitla Pass connected?
a. The Sinai War (Operation Kadesh, mivtsa kadesh)
b. Israel’s War of Independence
c. The First Lebanese War
d. None of the above
32. Where was the village of Deir Yassin located?
1. Near Kalkilya
2. In the Hulda area
3. Between Jaffa and Tel Aviv
4. At the edge of the Giv’at Shaul neighborhood in Jerusalem
33. While guiding a group you encounter a fire. Which number should you call to reach the fire department?
1. 100
2. 101
3. 102
4. 103
34. What is the “benediction concerning heretics” (birkat haminim)?
1. The blessing of the four species on the festival of Sukkot
2. The blessing on the “seven species” (shiv’at haminim) with which the Land of Israel was blessed
3. A part of the Shmone Esreh prayer
4. The blessing said on spices in the Havdala
35. On which holiday was the water libation (pouring of water, nisukh hamayim) performed during the Second Temple Period?
1. Rosh HaShanah
2. Sukkot
3. Pesah
4. Shavuot
36. Whose 500th anniversary was celebrated in Tiberias recently?
1. Dona Gracia
2. Rabbi Haim Abulafia
3. Rabbi Meir Ba’al HaNes
4. Princess Berenice (Bereniki)
37. Where is the fountain named for Mary, mother of Jesus found?
1. Sephoris (Tsipori)
2. Qasr-al-Yahud
3. En Kerem
4. I’billin
38. In Christianity the Prophet Elijah is a prefiguration of:
1. Jesus
2. John the Baptist
3. Paul
4. Peter
39. The order of the books in the New Testament is:
1. Gospels (evangelium), Acts of the Apostles (maasei hashelihim), Epistles (igrot), Book of Revelation (hitgalut)
2. Gospels (evangelium), Epistles (igrot), Book of Revelation (hitgalut), Acts of the Apostles (maasei hashelihim)
3. Epistles (igrot), Book of Revelation (hitgalut), Acts of the Apostles (maasei hashelihim), Gospels (evangelium)
4. Epistles (igrot), Acts of the Apostles (maasei hashelihim), Gospels (evangelium), Book of Revelation (hitgalut)
40. What is “Zakaat”?
1. A part of the Muslim prayer
2. Part of the Hadith
3. A sura in the Qur’an (Koran)
4. One of the fundamental commands of Islam
41. Where is there a major Samaritan (shomroni) site?
1. At the Inn of the Good Samaritan
2. In Holon
3. In Ramle
4. In Moshav Matsliah
42. When and where did the Ahmadiyya movement begin?
1. In Egypt in the 11th century
2. In the city of Hamdan in Iran, in the 19th century
3. In Shiraz, Iran, in the 19th century
4. In Qadian, India, in the 19th century
43. The mouth of which river is located near Mikhmoret?
1. Hadera
2. Alexander
3. Poleg
4. Taninim
44. The Alumot Dam is located:
1. South of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee)
2. Near Old Gesher
3. At the mouth of the Yarmukh River
4. North of the “Mountainous Jordan” (yarden harari)
45. What was Hamat Gader famous for in ancient times?
1. One of cities fortified and fenced by Yosef ben Matityahu (Flavius Josephus)
2. As a major Gadarene (gidriyim) city
3. As a medicinal baths site
4. Its excellent wines
46. Until which period did the descendents of the Nabateans live in Israel?
1. Roman
2. Byzantine
3. Early Muslim
4. Crusader
47. Calatrava’s Bridge at the entrance to Jerusalem is:
1. Part of the route of the Jerusalem Light Rail
2. Part of the future train track from Modi’in to Jerusalem
3. A memorial to the Twin Towers tragedy
4. A gift from the Spanish people to the Holy City
48. Where is the name Tel Aviv mentioned for the first time?
1. In Herzl’s “Altneuland”
2. In Ahad HaAm’s “At the Crossroads”
3. In Herzl’s “The Jewish State”
4. In the Book of Ezekiel
49. What is the view from Mt. Sodom to the east?
1. mMoab
2. Gilead
3. Edom
4. Ammon
50. In 2010 the Ministry of Tourism held a ceremony to commemorate the visit of:
1. 2 million tourists to Israel
2. 3 million tourists to Israel
3. 4 million tourists to Israel
4. 5 million tourists to Israel
GOOD LUCK!
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: two and a half hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Israelis (ages 45-50) interested in Jewish settlement and the Zionist Enterprise in modern times, in the area of the northern valleys, the Lower Galilee and Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
The tour departs Afula on Monday at 08:00 and ends at Bet She’an on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should be limited to the designated area on the map and included the following regions: one day in the valleys (can be divided between the two days), one-half day in the Lower Galilee and one-half day in the vicinity of Lake Kinneret.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
A group of water engineers from the United States interested in the technology of water installations and projects in Israel in the past and today.
The tour will take place in the coastal plain, mountain region and Jerusalem. The tour departs from Caesarea on Monday at 8:00, and ends on Tuesday in Jerusalem at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour must include at least two ancient water projects or installations and one current water project.
The tour should be limited to the designated area on the map and included the following regions: the Coastal Plain, the Judean Mountains and Jerusalem.
At least one-half day should be spent on the Coastal Plain and one-half day in Jerusalem.
The elaborated point must be related to the tour theme.
A group of Orthodox pilgrims from Greece and Russia interested in sites in the Judean Desert, Jordan Valley and Jerusalem. The tour begins in Arad on Monday at 08:00 and ends in Jerusalem on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should be limited to the area on the map and dedicate the first day to the Jordan Valley and Judean Desert (no more and no less) and the second day to Jerusalem (no more and no less).
The elaborated point must be a religious site holy to Orthodox pilgrims.
GOOD LUCK!
Sivan 5770
May 2010
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Please select and answer no more than 45 of the 50 multiple-choice questions below. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet. Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
Corals are a type of:
Marine animal
Marine sedimentary rock
Marine plant
Alga
Gerbils are:
A geological phenomenon
Birds
Rodents
Reptiles
Which of the following is a common plant related to Christian tradition?
Lilac chaste tree (sia’h avraham)
Christ’s thorn jujube (shezaf)
Syrian thistle (barkan)
Eastern strawberry tree (ktalav)
In which area are large concentrations of sandstone found?
The Golan Heights
The Judean Lowlands (shfelat yehuda)
Timna
Mt. Sodom
What is mizzi ahmar?
Dolomitic rock
A type of animal that inhabited the Carmel and is now extinct
Light soil found in the coastal plain area
Chalk rock
One of the largest desalination plants in Israel is located in:
Rosh HaAyin
The Shafdan in Rishon LeTsiyon
The Sapir site
Ashkelon
Carbon-14 (C14) is use to date:
Organic materials in general
Animal bones specifically
Metal
Pottery
Most researchers believe the Leopard Temple in the Uvda Valley dates back to the following period:
Late Neolithic
First Temple
Nabatean
Mamluk (to the time of Baybars)
The restored gate in the Ancient Jaffa excavations dates back to the time of:
Thutmosis
Ramses II
Louis IX
Napoleon
According to the Bible King David brought the Holy Ark to Jerusalem from the following town:
Shilo
Azeka
Kiryat Ye’arim
Even HaEzer
The first ossuaries (gluskemaot) appeared in Israel during the Second Temple period at the time of:
Ezra and Nehemiya
Yohanan Horkanos
Antiochus IV
Herod
Where in Israel were remains of a Greek theater found?
Maresha
Sephoris (Tsipori)
Tiberias
None of the above
During which period were the vaulted chambers on the lower level of the southern Temple Mount given the name “Solomon’s Stables”?
Second Temple
Umayyad
Mamluk
Crusader
Which of the following fortresses was first established in the Herodian Period?
Herodium
Sartaba (Alexandrion)
Hyrcania (Horkania)
Machaerus (Mikhvar)
Where are remains of the Eudokia Wall found today?
Near Zedekiah’s Cave (Solomon’s Quarries, Me’arat Tsidkiyahu)
In the Cardo, in the Jewish Quarter
In the vicinity of the Hill of the Ophel
In the Fortress Compound
Dionysius is the patron god of:
Neapolis (Shekhem)
Hippos (Susita)
Eleutheropolis (Bet Guvrin)
Scythopolis (Bet She’an)
Which of the following was the center of Umayyad rule in the 7thcentury?
Jericho
Damascus
Ramle
Bagdad
What does the Mi’raj denote?
Muhammad’s ascent to heaven.
Receiving the Qur’an (Koran)
Muhammad’s emigration to Yathrib
An optical illusion in the desert
The Crusaders broke through the walls of Jerusalem in July 1099 in the vicinity of:
The Golden Gate (Sha’ar HaRahamim)
Tancred’s Tower (Migdal Tankred)
Lion’s Gate (Sha’ar HaArayot)
Opposite the Rockefeller Museum
What were Crusader communes?
Associations of farmers
Branches of the European maritime trade cities in the Holy Land
Associations of monks
Associations of craftsmen
The Rehov inscription focuses on:
The borders of the Land of Israel during the Persian Period
The borders of the Land of Israel in the context of commandments dependent on the land (mitsvot hateluyot ba’arets)
The borders of the Land of Israel in the days of Herod Antipas
The borders of the Land of Israel in the Ayyubid Period
Which of the following sites did Napoleon visit in Jerusalem?
The Holy Sepulcher
Absalom’s Pillar (Yad Avshalom)
Tombs of the Kings (Kivrei HaMelakhim)
None of the above
The first Hebrew school where the Hebrew language was used for teaching was established in:
Gedera
Rishon LeTsiyon
Ahuzat Bayit
Rehovot
Which of the following settlements was established by people of the Second Aliyah?
Rosh Pinna
Deganya
Ne’ot HaKikar
Motsa
With which aliyahis Tel Aviv’s eclectic building style associated with?
Second
Third
Fourth
Fifth
The “green line” was established after:
November 29th 1947
The War of Independence
The Six Day War
The Camp David Accords
The founders of Motsa were from:
The Old Yishuv
The First Aliyah
The Second Aliyah
The Fifth Aliyah
“Black Saturday” (shabbat hashehora) came in the wake of:
The White Paper policy
The “Night of the Bridges” (leil hagesharim)
The King David Hotel bombing
The break-in to the Atlit Detention Camp
During Israel’s War of Independence GAHAL was the acronym for:
A political faction of the Liberal Party
The fighting pioneer brigade (Gush Halutsim Lohem)
Overseas recruitment (Giyus Huts LaArets)
The Hadera-Latrun Bloc (Gush Hadera Latrun)
Where was the peace agreement with Jordan signed?
At Peace Island
In the Peace Room at Bet Gabriel
On the White House lawn
At the Arava Crossing
A visit to which of the following sites requires coordination and permission the armed forces:
The Inn of the Good Samaritan
The Temple Mount
Mount Karkom
Be’erotayim
Which major plant did Moshe Novomeiski establish in the 1930s?
The Naharayim electric plant
The cement plant near the city of Ramla
The “Tnuva” Dairy Company
The potash plant at the Dead Sea
In whose days did the construction of the “Third Wall” in Jerusalem begin?
Hezekiah (Hizkiyahu)
Agrippa I
Horkanos II
Suleiman the Magnificent
Where in Israel is there a Karaite synagogue?
Mt. Gerizim
Ramleh
Holon
Peki’in
The ashes of the red heifer were used, among other things, for:
Ritual purification for people who were contaminated by a corpse
Ceremonies during the Water Drawing Festivities (Simhat Bet HaSho’eva)
Laments (kinah) on the Ninth of Av
Purifying ritual baths (mikva’ot)
Which of the following movements arose following the Council of Chalcedone?
Aryan
Catholic
Monophysite
Protestant
The Church of the Visitation in En Kerem commemorates the visit of:
John the Baptist to the house of his parents
Joseph and Mary from Nazareth
The angel to Elizabeth
Mary to her relative Elisabeth
In Christianity the steer (shor) is the attribute of:
Matthew
Mark
Luke
d. John
Where in Jerusalem is the Alexander Nevsky Church located?
Near the Holy Sepulcher
On the Mt. of Olives
In the Russian Compound
In En Kerem
What Islamic institute is the Madrasa?
The court where the Kadi presides
The center of the Muslim Waqf
A home for Dervishes
An Islamic theological institute of higher learning
Which of the following is a major figure in the Druze faith?
Al-Malik el Muathem Isa
Al-Hakim bi Amr Allah
The Disappearing Imam
Sallah-el-Din
Which is the direction of prayer in Islam?
South
Mecca
Medina
Jerusalem
The Beth HaKerem Valley (Bik’at Bet HaKerem) is the boundary between the following areas:
Western Galilee-Upper Galilee
Upper Galilee-Lower Galilee
Lower Galilee-Yizre’el Valley
Hula Valley-Ramot Naftali
Where was the first Templar colony in Israel established?
Alone Abba
Jerusalem
Haifa
Jaffa
Which of the following is a Jerusalem garden neighborhood from the time of the British Mandate?
Ir Ganim
Talpiot
Talbiye
Romema
Horvat Midras is located in the:
Judean Lowlands
Judean Mountains
Judean Desert
Northern Negev
Where was the first electrical power plant in the Land of Israel established?
Tiberias
Haifa
Naharayim
Tel Aviv
The “Carmel Horn” (keren carmel) is known as:
The Muhraka
Stella Maris
Ramat HaNadiv
The Etsba Ridge (rekhes etsba)
Solomon’s Mountain (har shlomo) is located in the:
Timna Valley
Hatira Ridge (rekhes hatira)
Elat Mountains
Negev Highlands (har hanegev)
Um-el-Kanatir is located:
On the Mt. Hermon slopes
In the southern Golan Heights
On Mt. Arbel
In Bet She’an
GOOD LUCK!
Sivan 5770
May 2010
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: two and a half hours.
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of tourists from abroad (ages 45-50) interested in Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel during different historical periods. The tour will include Jerusalem, Gush Etsiyon and the Judean Desert.
The tour leaves Gush Etsiyon on Monday at 08:00 and ends at Kibbutz En Gedi on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour must include all the regions above, and should be limited to the designated area (see attached map).
Only one day should be dedicated to Jerusalem.
The remaining days may be planned as you wish.
Elaborated points must be in the Judean Desert or in Gush Etsiyon and related to the tour theme.
A group of students from the Hebrew University interested in the historical periods between the first century BCE and the eight century CE in the area of Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) and part of the Golan Heights (see designated area on map).
The tour begins at the Golani Junction, on Monday at 8:00, and ends on Tuesday in Katsrin at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour must include the regions above, and should be limited to the designated area (see attached map).
A half day to a full day should be dedicated to the Golan Heights.
Christian sites should make up no more than a half a day of the tour.
Elaborated points must be in the Golan Heights and related to the tour theme.
A group of tour agents from abroad interested in archaeological sites from various periods in southern Israel.
The tour begins in Arad on Monday at 08:00 and ends at Kibbutz Elot on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should be limited to the area on the map and include sites from at least three different periods up to the 10th century CE.
The tour must include at least one Nabatean city, one biblical site and an additional site in the Uvda Valley or southern Arava.
One of the days should include a walking route lasting 3-5 continuous hours.
The elaborated point must be related to archaeology.
GOOD LUCK!
Kislev 5770
November 2009
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Examinee number: _________________ Identity Card number: ________________
Part A: Knowledge Questions – Total of 30 Points
Time allotment for this section: 1 hour.
Auxiliary material: non-electronic dictionary only.
Below are 50 multiple-choice questions, of which you must choose and answer only 45. If you answer more than 45 questions, the first 45 questions answered will be taken into account. Select the most correct answer and mark it on the answer sheet.
Each correct answer is worth 0.66 points.
1 What is the process of abrasion (gidud)?
Transportation of sand along the coastline
Deepening a streambed on the coast
Coastline erosion by waves
Coastline building by waves and river flow to the sea
2. Which of the following areas borders on Samaria (Shomron) to the east, Nahal Taninim to the north and Nahal Yarkon to the south?
The Sharon
The Carmel coast
The Judean Lowlands
The Yizre’el Valley
3. Which of the following are included in the “seven species” (shiv’at haminim)?
Willow (arava), myrtle (hadas), palm branch (lulav)
Pomegranate (rimon), fig (te’ena), barley (se’ora)
Grapes (gefen), almond, wheat
Myrtle (hadas), olive, date
4. Freshwater is:
Suited only for irrigating agricultural crops
Composed of effluents that have undergone oxidation
Composed of effluents that have undergone primary purification
Suited for drinking
5. How many pairs of legs do animals belonging to the insect order have?
2
3
4
5
6. Which of the following plants is one of the species that herald autumn (mevasrei stav)?
The coral peony (admonit hahoresh)
The Galilee orchid (sahlav hagalil)
The groundsel (savion)
The sternbergia (helmonit)
7. Numismatics is a science that studies:
Coins
Pottery
Metals
Glass
8. Khirbat al-Mafjar (Hisham’s Palace) is located near:
Jericho
Qumran
Khirbet Mazin
Sartaba
9. The main water source of Lakhish was:
A well
A spring (ma’ayan shikhva)
An aqueduct
Plastered cisterns
10. A chamber gate (“Solomon’s Gate”) was found at:
The City of David
Ashkelon
Tel Azeka
Megiddo
11. An inscription in which the words “David’s House” (bet david) appear, was found at:
Tel Arad
Tel Beit Mirsim
Tel Dan
Tel Hatsor
12. Josephus Flavius led the rebels at:
Masada
Gamla
Yodfat
The Temple Mount
13. The Hellenistic center in Jerusalem at the time of the Hasmonean Rebellion was located in the:
Psephinus Tower
Antonia
Lithostratus
Acra (hakra)
14. Which of the following was the water source of the upper aqueduct to Jerusalem?
En Etam
The Towers’ Pool in the Upper City.
The upper pool at Solomon’s Pools
The Serpents’ Pool
15. What was the name of the port Herod built in Caesarea?
Sebastos
Stratton Tower
Caesarea Maritima
Caesarea Philippi
16. The dividing wall in a hippodrome is called a:
Carceres
Fresco
Spina
Vomitorium
17. What was the Sanhedrin?
The Council of Elders at the time of the Return to Zion (shivat tsion)
The supreme Jewish religious and political institution
A body established by Ezra the Scribe
The council of the 24 priestly courses (mishmarot hakehuna)
18. Which of the following sites was built in the Abbasid Period?
The Pool of the Arches in Ramle
The al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem
The Tankhizia building in Jerusalem
Khirbat al-Mafjar (Hisham’s Palace)
19. The Battle of Arsuf in 1191 was won by the:
Fatimids
Ayyubids
Mamluks
Crusaders
20. The first crusader ruler of Jerusalem was named the:
Crusader King of Jerusalem
Defender of the Holy Sepulcher
Protector of the Holy Land
Redeemer of the Holy Sepulcher
21. Darb-el-Barid (the Mamluk mail route) for the most followed the:
Sea Route (Derekh HaYam)
Spice Route (Derekh HaBesamim)
Forefathers Route (Derekh HaAvot)
Royal Route (Derekh HaMelekh)
22. The Mamluk turbawas a:
Library
Sufi site
Religious school
Tomb
23. The following order adopted the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem as its symbol:
Greek Orthodox
Benedictine
Franciscan
Lutheran
24. Who ruled the Land of Israel between the years 1831-1840?
The Ottoman Empire
Egypt
Great Britain
France
25. Shimon Rokah was one of the founders of:
Ahuzat Bayit
Motsa
Gey Oni
Neve Tsedek
26. The Fourth Aliyah participated mainly in:
Establishing kibbutzim
Urban settlement
Establishing “tower and stockade” settlements
Establishing moshavim
27. The 1929 riots broke out following:
The events at Tel Hai
The San Remo Conference Resolution
The Western Wall events
The Paulet-Newcombe Agreement
28. One of the sites memorializing children in the Holocaust is located in:
Revivim
Lohame HaGeta’ot
Negba
Yad HaShemona
29. The “Dani Campaign” was related to the following cities:
Ramle and Lod
Jaffa and Ramle
Safed (Tsefat) and Tiberias
Be’er Sheva and Ashkelon
30. The “Green Line” is the armistice line determined in:
1947
1949
1967
1973
31. Which of the following is a legislative body?
The Israeli government
The Knesset (Israeli parliament)
The Israel Police
The Israeli Supreme Court
32. Which was the first Jewish settlement established in Judea and Samaria following the Six-Day War?
Kefar Etsiyon
Alon Moreh
Ofra
Bet El
33. The “Tel Line” is the name for:
Tel Faher and Tel Azaziat
The archeological tels in the Golan Heights
The volcanic hills in the Golan Heights
The Canaanite tels in the lowlands (shefela)
34. How many times a day is “Kriat Shema” said as part of the prayers?
Once
Twice
Three times
Four times
35. What must a tourist going from Israel to Bethlehem have?
A visa
Authorization from the military governor
Authorization from the civil administration
A passport
36. The fast of the 17thof Tammuz is held in memory of the:
Breaching of the Jerusalem walls
Destruction of the First Temple
Destruction of the Second Temple
Fall of Betar
37. What does Pentecost celebrate?
The ascent of Jesus to heaven
The dormition (sleep) of Mary
Descent of the holy spirit on the apostles
The baptism of Jesus in the Jordan
38. In whose time was the Nea Church built?
Helena
Justinian (Yustinianus)
Constantine (Constantinus)
Eudocia
39. What is a narthex?
A narrow transverse corridor before the apse
The entrance courtyard to the church
A transverse corridor in a church located between the atrium and the nave
The nave between the aisles
40. A Christian or Jewish tourist wishing to visit the Temple Mount this week will enter via the:
Chain Gate (Sha’ar HaShalshelet)
Dung Gate (Sha’ar HaAshpot)
Gate of the Moors (Sha’ar HaMugrabim)
Cotton Merchant’s Gate (Sha’ar HaKutna)
41. According to the Druze who is believed to be buried in the tomb of Nebi Shueib?
Zevulun the son of Jacob
The Prophet Elijah (Eliyahu HaNavi)
Joshua Ben-Nun
Jethro (Yitro)
42. The first sura in the Koran (Qur’an) opens with the words:
In the name of Allah
Allah’s opening
Allah’s call
The great Allah
43. The Jordan River’s main source of water is the:
Banias
Dan
Hatsbani
Vazani
44. In which Templar colony is there a church?
Sarona
Bet Lehem HaGelilit
Waldheim
Wilhelma
45. According to Christian tradition St. Stephen’s (Stephanos) bones were discovered in:
Deir Rafat
Mt. Zion
Bet Jimal
Abu Gosh
46. Which of the following coastal cities in Israel is related to Greek mythology?
Ashdod
Yavne
Jaffa
Akhziv
47. Who built Haifa in the 18thcentury?
Al-Jazzar
Dhaher al-Omar
Mahmud Abu Nabut
Faher-el-Din
48. In whose time was the limesestablished
Hadrian (Adrianus)
Herod (Hordus)
Trajan (Traianus)
Diocletian (Diocletianus)
49. Which of the following is a leading ecological settlement in southern Israel?
Kibbutz Lotan
Omer
Moshav En Yahav
Mitspe Ramon
50. Qumran’s former name is believed to be:
Nibshan
Secacah
Kurnub
Midyan
GOOD LUCK!
LICENSING EXAMINATION – TOUR GUIDE COURSE
Part B – Total of 70 Points
Time allotment for this section of the examination: two and a half hours.
Auxiliary aids permitted:
A 1:250,000 scale touring map of Israel (maps with any additional information are not permitted).
Choose one of the following three groups and plan a tour for it.
A group of Jewish students from abroad, in Israel to visit sites related to Jewish history from ancient times until the present. The tour areas are marked on the attached map.
The tour leaves from Tel Aviv on Monday at 08:00 and ends at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour must include the following regions: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, the Ayalon Valley, the Jerusalem Hills and the city of Jerusalem.
The tour must include a half-day excursion in Tel Aviv-Jaffa and a full-day excursion in Jerusalem that includes all historical periods from the First and Second Temple periods onwards.
The elaborated point must be in Jerusalem and related to the tour theme.
A group of Israeli nature-lovers interested in Christian traditions and architecture in Israel. The tour areas are marked on the attached map.
The tour begins at Kursi in northern Israel, on Monday at 8:00, and ends at Mamshit in southern Israel on Tuesday at 17:00.
Please note:
The tour should include the following regions: eastern Lake Kinneret (Sea of Galilee), the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea area and the southern Judean Desert down to Mamshit.
The elaborated point must be related to Christianity.
A group of tourists on a tour from Haifa to the north, according to the area marked on the attached map.
The tour begins in Haifa on Monday at 08:00 and ends at their hotel in Akko on Tuesday at 19:00.
Please note:
The tour should include a half-day excursion in Haifa and a half-day excursion in Akko.
The elaborated point must be in either Haifa or Akko.
The program should include a variety of subjects: geography, history, archeology, human culture and landscape.
GOOD LUCK!