A Quiz about Dates for Tu BiShevat
A Quiz about Dates for Tu BiShevat
Made by Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
Made by Torah VeHa'aretz Institute
How much do you know about dates?
How many times is the word tamar (תמר) mentioned in the Torah (in reference to a date palm, not to a person or place)?
What are the main areas in Israel that grow dates?
On Sukkot, we take the lulav from the date palm.
What exactly is the lulav?
How many date palms were there in Israel in 2016?
What month is date export from Israel the highest?
Which country produces the most dates word-wide (as of 2014)?
Medjoul dates are an Israeli success. What percentage of world production does Israel account for (as of 2017)?
What is the average height of the standard date palm?
What is the "City of Dates"
in the Tanach?
In 1938, some 7,000 date palm shoots were smuggled into the Land of Israel by Ben-Zion Yisraeli, since neighboring Arab countries refused to sell them legally in the Land of Israel.
Which country were they smuggled from?