Feb 06 2025 79 mins 3
Sponsored by the World Zionist Organization, this lively event is hosted by Yonatan Vendriger and contains remarks by Ariel Wiss of the Israeli Ministry of Education. It is essentially a contest amongst amateur Tanach experts (the selections are taken from both Prophets and the Writings, in addition to the Torah) who have to answer non-multiple choice questions about quotes from the Hebrew Bible. Their erudition is stunning, and eventually a winner and a runner-up emerge and are crowned. Also, there are several musical performances by singer Gilad Paz (accompanied by keyboardist Moshe Elmakias), including Hatikvah at the end, as well as classic Israeli hits throughout the contest (such as "Hineni Kan" by Yehoram Gaon). Shnayor Burton, a past champion and familiar face to fans of the Bible Contest, returns as a judge. The head judge is Aure Ben-Zvi Goldblum, a specialist in Biblical Hebrew. Recorded at Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan.
