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In the early summer of 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon. The First Lebanon War — as it would later be called — would ultimately lead to thousands of casualties, an eighteen-year-long ...
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In 1968, an up-and-coming left-wing politician by the name of Uri Avnery brazenly suggested replacing Israel’s national anthem, HaTikvah. His proposal was surprising, given the fact that the would-be replacement was the unequivocal ...
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We embark on a two-episode journey back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and specifically to one small hill - a dormant volcanic tell - in the southern Golan Heights. There, we follow a group of young IDF soldiers who, trapped in a small bunker for thirty-six hours, went to hell and back.
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Israel has, unfortunately, witnessed many terror attacks throughout its history. But few are as memorable as the Sbarro suicide bombing....
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In 1956, Moshe Dayan – then the IDF’s Chief of Staff – delivered a eulogy for a fallen member of...
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45-year-old Ido Rosenthal from Moshav Ben Shemen served in an elite commando unit and was killed on the first day...
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As of today, more than 400 Israeli soldiers have been killed in the war. Each one of those deaths, of...
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The war has brought many new people into the limelight: For nearly three months we’ve been hearing countless stories of...
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Some 350,000 Israelis have been called up to reserve duty since the start of the war, in what has been...
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It’s Yom HaZikaron again, Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror. Since the start of the war, 1511 Israeli...
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This is an episode we never wanted to air. One that marks a year of war and a year of...
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Ten-year-old Oran Almog, from Haifa, spent the morning of October 4, 2003 with his extended family at the beach. They...
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An unlikely intergenerational friendship between two soldiers with one job: freeing civilian hostages.
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“Signed, Sealed, Delivered?” looks at our founding moral compass – Megillat Ha’Atzmaut, or the Declaration of Independence. Through the descendants...
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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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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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On June 7, 2021 the entire Israel Story team – nine radio producers – descended upon the Jerusalem International YMCA....
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Let’s face it – when it comes to Israel, everything is complicated. Politics are complicated, religion is complicated, democracy is complicated, the conflict is complicated. Even our complications are complicated. ...
