• A Life After Death – Part II
    • Episode 94
    • 00:28:25
    • 2023

    A Life After Death – Part II

    “When someone dies,” Gal Zaychner writes, “there are all kinds of things you have to take care of: You have…

  • A Life After Death – Part I
    • Episode 93
    • 00:30:29
    • 2023

    A Life After Death – Part I

    In a series of heartwrenching essays, told over the course of two episodes, Gal Zaychner returns to the most painful…

  • Meir Argov
    • Episode 92
    • 00:21:01
    • 2023

    Meir Argov

    Meir Argov was born as Meir Grabovsky in Rîbnița, Bessarabia, in 1905. At the age of 14, while his family…

  • Herzl Rosenblum
    • Episode 91
    • 00:27:30
    • 2023

    Herzl Rosenblum

    Herzl Rosenblum was born in 1903, a year before the death of his namesake, Theodor Herzl, who – of course…

  • Yitzhak Meir Levin
    • Episode 90
    • 00:34:30
    • 2023

    Yitzhak Meir Levin

    Rabbi Yitzhak Meir Levin was – in every way possible – Hasidic royalty. He was born in 1893 in the…

  • Moshe Kol
    • Episode 89
    • 00:21:32
    • 2023

    Moshe Kol

    Moshe Kolodny, who’d later on change his surname to Kol, was born in 1911 in the heart of the Pale…

  • Pinchas Rosen
    • Episode 88
    • 00:21:58
    • 2023

    Pinchas Rosen

    Pinchas Rosen, or Felix Rosenblüth (as he was called in his youth), was born in Berlin in 1887, and grew…

  • Sa’adia Kobashi
    • Episode 87
    • 00:25:25
    • 2023

    Sa’adia Kobashi

    Sa’adia Kobashi was born in the small village of Khubesh, Yemen, in 1902. During Passover of 1909 his father Yihye,…

  • Daniel Auster
    • Episode 86
    • 00:20:59
    • 2023

    Daniel Auster

    Daniel Auster was born in Galicia in 1893 and earned a law degree from the University of Vienna before making…

  • David Remez
    • Episode 85
    • 00:22:56
    • 2023

    David Remez

    David Remez was born as Moshe David Drabkin in what is today Belarus, in 1886. As a boy he studied…

  • Bonus: The Broadcast
    • Short Episode
    • 00:08:27
    • 2023

    Bonus: The Broadcast

    “Signed, Sealed, Delivered?” introduces us to all 37 signatories of Israel’s Declaration of Independence, through the recollections of their closest…

  • Rachel Cohen-Kagan
    • Episode 84
    • 00:21:46
    • 2023

    Rachel Cohen-Kagan

    Rachel Cohen-Kagan was born in 1888 into the Zionist Lubarsky family of Odessa. Her father, Ya’akov, was one of the…

  • Mordechai Schattner
    • Episode 83
    • 00:20:39
    • 2023

    Mordechai Schattner

    Mordechai Schattner was born in Eastern Galicia – then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – in 1904. He was a…

  • Zorach Warhaftig
    • Episode 82
    • 00:22:58
    • 2023

    Zorach Warhaftig

    Warhaftig was an important leader of the Mafdal – the National Religious Party. During WWII, he saved the lives of…

  • David Ben-Gurion
    • Episode 81
    • 00:20:23
    • 2023

    David Ben-Gurion

    David Ben-Gurion, perhaps the most influential Jewish leader since Moses, needs no introduction. Here though are a few facts about…

  • We Hereby Declare
    • Short Episode
    • 00:03:12
    • 2023

    We Hereby Declare

    “Signed, Sealed, Delivered?” looks at our founding moral compass – Megillat Ha’Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence. Through the descendants…

  • Introducing “Signed, Sealed, Delivered?”
    • Episode 80
    • 00:29:06
    • 2023

    Introducing “Signed, Sealed, Delivered?”

    Israel’s Declaration of Independence was forged amid strife and turmoil. It was a birth that, everyone knew, would trigger war….

  • My Dad, David
    • Episode 79
    • 00:37:29
    • 2023

    My Dad, David

    David taught his son, Mishy, life’s most fundamental lesson – one that is also the deep premise of Israel Story:…

  • Hello Operator
    • Episode 78
    • 00:50:01
    • 2023

    Hello Operator

    On June 29, 2007, Apple released its first iPhone. Less than sixteen years later, our world is an entirely altered…

  • Free as a Bird
    • Episode 77
    • 01:23:27
    • 2023

    Free as a Bird

    These are – it goes without saying – tumultuous times here in Israel. But especially now, we believe it is…