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Dimona: Israel's "Secret" Nuclear Option
Season 2 Episode 3
Have you heard about Israel's secret nuclear weapons in Dimona? Yeah, we haven't either. In this episode, Noam digs deep into how Israel's not-so-sec…
4 years, 11 months ago
Ingathering of Exiles: From Ethiopia to Israel
Season 2 Episode 2
You might have heard of the Beta Israel, the community of Israel’s Ethiopian community. In this episode, Noam Weissman tells their story - not only t…
5 years ago
Operation Thunderbolt: The Raid on Entebbe
Season 2 Episode 1
When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv on the morning of June 27th, 1976, no one could have suspected that the soon-to-be-hijacked flight …
5 years ago
Introducing: This Week Unpacked
Season 2
Presenting: This Week Unpacked.
Unpacking Israeli History is all about excavating the past, but my colleagues at Unpacked have been working on a new …
5 years, 1 month ago
What The Heck Is Going On In Israel?
Season 2
The news coming out of Israel is scaring and confusing all of us. Is Sheikh Jarrah a housing dispute, or something bigger? Who is responsible for the…
5 years, 2 months ago
Gush Katif: When Jews Expelled Jews
Season 1 Episode 15
In the final episode of the season, Noam Weissman delves into one of the most divisive events in Israel’s history — the disengagement from the Gaza S…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Second Intifada: Trauma and Tragedy
Season 1 Episode 14
To appreciate the current Israeli and Palestinian psyches, it’s vital to understand the first five years of the 21st century — the period of the Seco…
5 years, 8 months ago
The assassination of Yitzchak Rabin
Season 1 Episode 13
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin on November 4th, 1995 remains one of the most difficult moments in Israeli history and in …
5 years, 8 months ago
Baruch Goldstein: Legacy of a Massacre
Season 1 Episode 12
On the festival of Purim in 1994, Israeli-American doctor Baruch Goldstein opened fire in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 Muslim wor…
5 years, 8 months ago
The First Intifada: A Grassroots Movement
Season 1 Episode 11
The First Intifada, or uprising, differed greatly from the intense violence and bloodshed seen in the Second Intifada. Even without the same level of…
5 years, 8 months ago