Episodes
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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,…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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…
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- 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….
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- 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:…
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- 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…
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- 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…
