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The Yom Kippur War: A National Catastrophe
Season 1 Episode 10
After the victory of the Six-Day War in 1967, it seemed like Israel was invincible. Less than a decade later, the country was taken by surprise by th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Munich Olympics: When Terrorism Won
Season 1 Episode 9
The 1972 Munich Olympics was supposed to showcase the face of the new Germany. Instead, the horrific death of 11 Israeli athletes — slaughtered as th…
5 years, 9 months ago
Eichmann: The Controversy of Justice
Season 1 Episode 8
You would have thought that bringing Nazis to justice would have been something the world could agree on, but the Mossad’s capture of the infamous Na…
5 years, 9 months ago
Hatikvah: The Story Behind the Anthem
Season 1 Episode 7
Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, predates the establishment of the Jewish state by decades. Zionist leader Theodor Herzl hated it and many of Isra…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Altalena: Israel’s (Almost) Civil War
Season 1 Episode 6
Just a month after its establishment, the State of Israel was on the brink of civil war, with two of its greatest leaders — David Ben Gurion and Mena…
5 years, 10 months ago
Deir Yassin: The Battle for Truth
Season 1 Episode 5
No incident in Israeli history has been more hotly contested than that of April 9, 1948, in the small Arab village of Deir Yassin. Noam Weissman trie…
5 years, 10 months ago
Hebrew: A Dead Language Revived
Season 1 Episode 4
If you’ve learned anything about the spread of Modern Hebrew, you probably heard that it’s all thanks to one man - Eliezer Ben Yehuda - that Israel’s…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Balfour Declaration: 67 Words That Changed the World
Season 1 Episode 3
In a bizarre twist of history, the humble chestnut played a big role in the ultimate creation of the State of Israel. To understand why, Noam Weissma…
5 years, 10 months ago
Herzl and the Non-Promised Land
Season 1 Episode 2
After over 70 years of existence, it’s impossible to imagine the Jewish State being located anywhere other than Israel. But in the early days of Zion…
5 years, 10 months ago
Dreyfus: An Affair to Remember
Season 1 Episode 1
How is it possible that an espionage trial in France in the mid-1890s set into motion events that (tangentially) led to the rebirth of the State of I…
5 years, 11 months ago