International Bible Contest

The International Bible Contest (Hebrew: חידון התנ"ך; Hidon HaTanakh also spelled Chidon HaTanach or Jidon Hatanaj [among Spanish and Portuguese speaking Jews]) is a worldwide competition on the Tanakh (Jewish Bible) for middle school and high school Jewish students.

[3] In 2016, Sivan Rahav-Meir won the tender to host the contest,[4] but gave it up.

Kor received the notification of his loss in the tender by text message.

[9] In 2024, Oded Menashe and Edan Harel were selected as the co-hosts of the contest.

For example: Participants of each school are given a list of chapters to study from October to February, when the first round takes place in the Universidad Hebraica, everyone can participate from his or her school, but after the 50 question exam, only around 16 people will survive for the next round, this one takes place a few days later, in this case, the 16 winners go to the school of the person who won the last year, where the points of the first round are not erased and where they are given a Passuk with 2 questions (8 points each), and after that a page with 10 questions (8 out of 10 worth 2 points each, and the other 2 worth 4 points), at the end the 3 people with the highest score go to Israel.

[citation needed] Participants are given a list of chapters to study in May or June, and in the following February or March a preliminary regional test is taken.

After tallying the scores of the written exam and video rounds, the 2nd-place winner of that division wins the final spot in Israel.

Of these, approximately 185 students travel to New York to compete in the national finals.

Competitors usually come from Melbourne, Victoria and Sydney, New South Wales, though in recent years participants from Perth in Western Australia have taken part.

The national syllabus usually consists of 100-150 chapters of Torah, Neviim and Later Prophets.

The top three participants of the national quiz of each state are then selected to go through to the federal round, held either in Sydney or Melbourne.

The Federal round of the competition is identical to the National only there is more content, thus the questions are seemingly harder.

The winner and the 2nd highest scorer are then given places at the International Bible Quiz camp.

The author of the Australian Bible Quiz is the 1999 Diaspora Winner, Dr Shira Wenig.