In the end, the joint winners were Eddie Breuer-Weil and his family from Edgware and Simon Cohen and his family from Israel. Mr Cohen, a British oleh, is co-founder of the Aardvark programme for gap year students in Israel.
Etgar ran the event as an alternative to the quiz on Israel it normally runs for UK Jewish schools on Yom Ha’atzmaut but which it was forced to abandon because of the coronavirus lockdown. A top TV producer David Coleman was drafted in to produce it.
“We were delighted with the participation,” said Etga co-founder Adam Taub, who estimated that more 3,000 were taking part. “We had people from all over North and South America, South Africa and Israel.”
There were contestants from France to Uzbekhistan and one keen Australian who was up in the early hours to take part.
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