Wartime Diaries
Episodes
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- Episode 21
- 00:49:33
- 2016
68 and Counting – Part II
In the second installment of this two-part series (and our season two finale), we pick up where we left off last week: Presenting small stories – one per decade…
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- Episode 20
- 00:52:10
- 2016
68 and Counting- Part I
This is the first in a two-part series that takes us through Israel’s short but dramatic history. Over the last few months, we’ve spent many hours, in all kinds of …
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- Episode 19
- 00:48:42
- 2016
Of Numbers and Names
This Thursday, May 5th, Israelis observe Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. At 10 a.m., according to custom, an air raid will sound and the country will fall quiet for …
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- Episode 18
- 01:00:24
- 2016
Thicker Than Water
On today’s show, we delve into the world of family bonds. We’ll ask how they’re formed, and how they change over time, and are challenged in a bunch of different …
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- Episode 17
- 00:54:12
- 2016
Stop That Bus!
Israeli buses regularly make international headlines, be it for suicide bombings, fights over gender segregation or clashes concerning Shabbat schedules. On this week’s episode, we delve into the world of lesser known bus-related conflicts.
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- Episode 16
- 01:11:19
- 2016
Over and Out
Stories of relationships that have ended, and the things (the often slightly nutty things) that people do in the aftermath.
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- Episode 15
- 00:45:47
- 2016
Love, Revisited
The stories in today’s episode come from our most recent live show, “Israel in Love.” We’ll meet three couples looking back at their love affairs from very different vantage points.
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- Episode 14
- 00:44:06
- 2016
Besties
How Moshe Dayan’s wife and Yasser Arafat’s mother-in-law became bosom buddies, and other tales of unlikely friendships.
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- Episode 13
- 00:54:33
- 2016
Sacred Plants
How we change nature and nature changes us, from wildflower picking in Israel to ayahuasca retreats in Peru.
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- Episode 12
- 00:50:29
- 2016
Now Boarding
The first place travelers to Israel encounter is usually Ben Gurion Airport. What they’ll remember of that experience depends in part on their relationship to the country. Are they coming home? Arriving to a place they’ve always dreamed of visiting? Passing through, with fear or wariness, en route to someplace else?
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- Episode 11
- 00:37:16
- 2016
Herzl 48 Live
Israel Story producers crisscrossed the small country, visiting every 48 Herzl Street and collecting stories from whomever they encountered.
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- Episode 10
- 01:05:55
- 2016
Birthstory
An Israeli couple flies to Nepal to pick up their three babies from two surrogate mothers and discover that the transaction is not as straightforward as it seems.
