Map - מפה

for the chanichim to get to know some more Israel

Puzzle pieces

MAP

By: Daniella and Yonati Wagner, Toronto

Goals: for the chanichim to get to know some more Israel

Suggested Age:  ZACH

Suitable for Shabbat

Materials: Puzzle pieces (see below)

Make a huge map of Israel, out of two bristle boards. Draw different major cities on it, and make questions about those cities. Then cut out the map you made into puzzle pieces and place them around the shul, when your chanichim get to the puzzle pieces tell them a question and once they pass the back of the question will tell them where else to go in the shul. (In short scavenge hunt.) On the back of question sheet should also be a letter that in the end will spell out “am echad belev ached.”(see if any chanichim can figure this out..if not add it in, at the end.) 

 Once your chanichim are finished have them bring all the puzzle pieces together and put the map of Israel together. THEN GIVE YOUR SHPEAL of wtvr, after they’ve used up all their energy.

Here are some questions/statements you can use, or make up your own:

Chevron- this city was once called Elonei Mamrei and Kiryat Arba and is known as one of Eretz Yisrael's four holy cities.

Yerushalayim- this name is not found in the Torah at all, and was made into the capital by king David when he became the king of all of Israel.

-Golan This is a picture of which part of Israel?

In which city was the declaration of Independence given?- Tel Aviv.

To which city did Yehoshua send meraglim?-Yericho

Massada-  To which place did 1000 Jews run away from the Romans and saw this place as their last refuge?

Sedi Boker- Which president moved to Sedi Boker in order to settle the Negev?

Zefat- A northern city, this is one of the four holy cities.

Haifa- Which city has the largest port in Israel?

Eilat- what is a southern city in Israel?

The compass rose- says north, south, east, west in Hebrew.

Which is the largest city in the Negev?- Beer Sheva