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Jerusalem Day: More than a Quiz...
Yom Yerushalayim
Jerusalem Trimillenial Celebrations
5756-1996
Introduction
In the excitement of the preparations for the trimillenial
celebrations, you may wish to give your students or group
members a visual dimension to Jerusalem when they have never
actually been there. Whether you use a video, album or slides,
or even a CD, you will wish them to explore and retain the
images, the data and their impressions for further review.
Below, you will find the ideas we use for the "More than a
Quiz" activity in the Yom Ha'atmaut file series with the text
of an around Jerusalem tour-quiz. You will need an outline
map of Jerusalem and one of the Old City Walls. If you are
not using the web version, you will also require visuals or
graphics for each location.
More than a Quiz Activity
Suggestion #1 - for younger participants
Using the line drawings of Jerusalem sites which we have scanned
below, and some of your own, make an outline map of Israel
in several copies [one for each team] and run this as a competitive
activity for teams, each of which should have an Israeli name,
of course!
Use the "Jerusalem Tour" below to make up location cards.
Teams receive an envelope with eleven place cards, another
envelope with all 22 line drawings, a packet of pins or tape
and have to compete to match the right drawings with their
locations AND pin them on the map. You can help them by having
a control map on the wall or on a transparency.
Suggestion #2 - for teenagers:
"Inside Israel" a pre- or post-Israel Experience Media Program:
For this you will need to have slides of Jerusalem or copy
these and other line drawings onto transparency to make your
own slides. Alternatively, take and make clips ahead of time
from a few Israeli tourist film onto a master tape.
You will also need tapes/cds of Israeli and Jewish music plus
a means of editing a soundtrack/video - and a lot of time!
The assignment can be prepared at various levels of sophistication
- just music with a series of slides or clips edited together
or a fully scripted magnus opus, focusing on any of the experiential
aspects of visiting Jerusalem, a diary learning about Jerusalem,
the importance of Jerusalem. The tour material below will
serve as background information or a possible shot list.
Suggestion #3 - for teenagers:
As part of your events for Yom Yerushalayim, hold a short
quiz with two teams or four individual competitors. You will
need projection equipment, slides, line drawings.
Question cards can be made in either of the following ways,
according to level of knowledge:
Give the definition and ask for the famous place or:
Give the location and ask for why it is famous [3 points for
each major detail]
Alternatively:
Make this a family team competition, on the lines of "Give
us a Word". This means that there are two teams of four [2
or 4 families]. It is worthwhile picking cards of equivalent
difficulty and doing one round if time is limited. If you
are going to make an evening of it at a small community gathering,
you will obviously need more locations - more cards - and
you can change teams around so that everyone gets a chance
to play.
The question master holds all the name cards and calls one
person from the first team, showing him or her the first card.
The competitors' task is to mime to their own team in absolute
silence - and in under one minute - the name of the place
they are shown. Participants are allowed to use conventions
for indicating number of syllables, "sounds like" and so on.
A name guessed in 30 seconds brings 3 points; in 60 seconds
- 2 points; in 90-120 seconds - only 1 point.
Next, the question master calls the first person from the
opposing team and the game continues in this manner.
Jerusalem Tour
1. JERUSALEM EMBLEM
A lion, the symbol
of the tribe of Judah. The Hebrew name for a lion - aryeh
- is incorporated in "Ariel", one of the biblical names for
Jerusalem.
2. JERUSALEM MODEL
Found in the gardens
of the Holyland Hotel. It shows what Jerusalem looked like
in the first century C.E. Look for the impressive Temple.
3. BIBLICAL ZOO
A zoo with a difference.
An attempt has been made to bring every bird and animal mentioned
in the Bible to this zoo. Now at a new location in spacious
surroundings, in south west Jerusalem.
4. BINYAN HAKNESSET
The Israeli parliament
building where the 120 members meet. The building is rectangular
in shape, and has columns.
5. SHRINE OF THE
BOOK
One of several buildings which form part of the Israel National
Museum. It houses the Dead Sea Scrolls; its roof resembles
the shape of the top of an earthenware jar.
6. ROMAN AMPITHEATER - OPEN AIR THEATER
Part of the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University.
The Hebrew University was opened in 1925. Among the many distinguished
guests were Lord Balfour, Chaim Weizmann and Chief Rabbi Abraham
Kook.
7. MONTEFIORE'S WINDMILL
The famous landmark in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood, named
in honor of Moses Montefiore, who planned the first new Jewish
section outside the old city walls in 1860.
8. YAD VASHEM
The official memorial and center for the commemoration of
the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Holocaust. Look below
the Jerusalem emblem.
9. HERZL'S TOMB
The resting place
of Dr. Theodor Herzl, the Zionist visionary, who founded the
Zionist Organization and planned the establishment of the
State of Israel 50 years before it came into being.
Look for the Hebrew name.
10. MENORAH
The symbol of the
State of Israel, a seven-branch candelabrum commemorating
the ancient Menorah of the Temple. This modern Menorah is
decorated with 29 panels depicting the history of the Jewish
people.
11. DAVID'S TOWER or Citadel of David
A large fortress on the old city walls, where Herod built
his palace.
12. KOTEL or KOTEL MA'ARAVI
The Western Wall,
the last surviving wall of the ancient Jewish Temples.
13. LION'S GATE
One of the many gates on the old city walls of Jerusalem.
It takes its name from the lions carved in the wall on either
side of the gate. Look for the very small lions.
14. MACCABIAH STADIUM
Here, every four years, Jewish sportsmen and women compete
in a "Jewish Olympics" called the Maccabiah in honor of the
ancient Maccabean heroes.
15. SILOAM POOL
You can see the steps that lead to the mouth of the tunnel
made by the workers of King Hezekiah in 700 B.C.E. to improve
the water supply of Jerusalem.
16. HADASSAH HOSPITAL
The famous medical
center in Ein Kerem, which has a synagogue with 12 windows
created by the artist Marc Chagall. Each window depicts one
of the twelve biblical tribes.
17. KENNEDY MEMORIAL
Erected in honor of John F. Kennedy, the young American President
who was assassinated in 1963. The Memorial resembles a large
tree trunk; each of the ribs running down the side represents
one of the state of the Union.
18. HEICHAL SHLOMO
The office of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel and the supreme
religious center of Israel.
19. MISHKAN HANASI
The official residence of the President of Israel, on HaNasi
Boulevard.
20. YAD AVSHALOM
The traditional tomb of Absalom, the rebellious son of King
David, situated in the Valley of Kidron.
21. MOSSAD HARAV KOOK
The famous institute and publishing house named for the first
Chief Rabbi of [pre-state] modern Israel, Rabbi Abraham Kook.
22. BEZALEL SCHOOL OF ART
Named for the biblical artist and craftsman responsible for
the furnishings of the mobile Tabernacle in the time of Moses.
23. TOMB OF THE JUDGES
The burial place of the members of the Sanhedrin, the Supreme
Court of ancient Israel. The tomb contains 71 burial places
carved from the natural rock.
24. HEBREW UNIVERSITY SYNAGOGUE
Look for the onion-shaped dome of this unusual synagogue,
below the Maccabiah Stadium.
25. TRUMAN PEACE CENTER
Named for Harry Truman, the American President who played
a major role in the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.
The Center is part of the Hebrew University and is located
below the Ampitheater.
26. SUPREME COURT
New complex of buildings completed for Israel's Supreme Court
which also sits as the highest Court of Appeal and functions
as a constitutional court. Noted for its spacious construction
and total use of natural daylight. Find it near the Knesset.
27. TEDDY KOLLEK SPORTS STADIUM
Large new stadium outside the new commercial complex in south
west Jerusalem, near the Biblical Zoo. Named for Jerusalem's
veteran former mayor.