Spotlight: Hava (farm) and Limud (education)
Rabbi Joshua Ackerman of our Tzevet Limud (education staff) was seen huddled under a blue tarp at the Hava this morning, together with the 2 goats and a group of our Kochavim and Ilanot chanichim (campers), leading a Chug Limud (education session). They were cozy and dry despite the rain.
He read the story of Honi haMaagal in which Honi sees an old man planting a tree. Honi scoffs at him, saying “Old man! Why are you planting that silly tree when you will not get to reap the benefit of its fruit?” Suddenly Honi falls asleep and wakes up 70 years later. He sees someone harvesting the fruit — who looks just like the old man. Confused and disoriented, Honi asks incredulously “Are you the same old man who planted that tree?” — after all, how could that old man have lived another 70 years? The man who was harvesting the fruit said “No, I am his grandson”. Through this story, the chanichim learned the value of planting trees for the benefit of future generations, and about the need for an awareness of environmental sustainability.
You will all be happy to know that the Limud department held a camp-wide Israel Trivia competition. The winners got to choose the names for our Hava chickens. The good-spirited competition was engaging and right along the lines of our camp-wide theme for this summer: עין לציון. Drum roll…the 4 winning names for our chickens are: Potato; Spicy Bunny; Crazy Smarts; and Golden Goat! And never fear — please feel free to take the Israel trivia test yourself (see entire text, below) and think of your winning chicken name.
Rabbi Ackerman comments, “I have been consistently impressed and happy to see how all our chanichim are taking care of relating to our Hava animals. They are without exception gentle, caring, and enthusiastic about taking proper care of these animals. For example, many make a point to come during bechira (free time) to visit, clean, and take walks with the goats. This Hava initiative has been overwhelmingly positive.”
The Israel trivia contest: reprinted in full, below. See if you would score high enough to win, and if so…what would you name your chicken?
Challenge 1- Trivia
Answer the questions worth 2 points each for a total of 20 points.
- On what date on the English and Hebrew calendar did Israel declare independence?
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- What is the name of Israel’s legislative body?
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- Which was the first country to recognize Israel’s independence?
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- Who was the first Israeli in space?
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- Which artist designed the famous glass windows for the synagogue of Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem?
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- How many women signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence?
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- In what sport did Gal Fridman win Israel’s only Olympic gold medal?
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- Who was the first Israeli to be selected in the first round of the NBA draft?
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- What is the Hebrew name for the IDF – Israeli Defense Forces?
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- Where or in what reference is the first mention of “Yisrael” in the Torah?
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Challenge 2 Label the cities
put the appropriate number for each place, on the map in the right location – like the example (2 points each)
EX 11. Mediterranean Sea
- Jerusalem
- Tel Aviv
- Eilat
- Metula
- Sinai
- Haifa
- Tiberias
- Netanya
- Be’er Sheva
- Gaza
Challenge 3 Code Cracker
Jumbled words – unscramble the letter to find the words related to Israel
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- ADED ASE _______________________
- ZITBUBK ________________________
- OLHAMS ________________________
Crypto Message – Use the key to crack the code and answer the question.
◻︎✪₩ ❦◇✖︎฿ ☒✾◀︎◇➣❤︎☒ ﹆◀︎☒❦➣ ❦☒✖︎☒✾✺➣◀︎✾ ₩➣◀︎➣ ✪✖︎❤︎฿ ☞☒❡➣ ☞➣➣✺ ✺◇❤︎❤︎?
Answer _______________________
Challenge 4 Super ELAL
ELAL is interested in a new plane design –
with the blank white paper, build your BEST paper airplane to submit in the airplane design challenge –
You will be given 8 minutes to work on this plane and you have 3 practice papers- at the announced time, only one plane will be brought outside with two team representatives to fly the team’s paper airplane. The plane that flies the farthest will be awarded 20 points, second farthest 15 points, and third farthest, 10 points. All other teams that fly a plane that do not rank in the top 3 will be awarded 5 points.
AGAIN, only one plane with two team reps will come outside for this event.
MAKE SURE YOUR TEAM NAME IS ON THE PLANE
Challenge 5 Prime Ministers
List as many Prime Ministers of Israel as you can – Only last names are needed and if a Prime Minister served more than once, they only need to be listed once.
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Challenge 6 Ivrit
List as many animals in Hebrew as you can
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Super Challenge –
In which decade of Israel’s History did the event take place? 1940’s, 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, 2000’s, 2010’s
Answers may repeat….
________ Israel Declared Independence
________ Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty was Signed
________ Rabin and Peres stared the Nobel Peace Prize with Arafat
________ First Israeli astronaut went into Space
________ The Six Day War
________ The Entebbe Raid
________ Gilad Shalit was Released in a Prisoner Exchange
________ Bamba began being sold
________ Israel won it’s first medal in the Olympics
________ Israel Changed it’s currency from the Israeli Pound to the Shekel
Crypto Message Key
BONUS – ISRAEL
Write and Acrostic Poem about Israel
I
S
R
A
E
L
What’s an acrostic poem? It’s a poem that spells out a word vertically, but uses the letters to start words or ideas connected to the main word.
For example:
Loving
Israel
Making
Meaningful lessons
Using
Darn fun activities