Baruch Goldstein: Legacy of a Massacre
On the festival of Purim in 1994, Israeli-American doctor Baruch Goldstein opened fire in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, killing 29 Muslim worshippers. Condemnation was swift and decisive, but ...
24 Marras 202028min
The First Intifada: A Grassroots Movement
The First Intifada, or uprising, differed greatly from the intense violence and bloodshed seen in the Second Intifada. Even without the same level of violence, the events from 1987-1993 completely alt...
17 Marras 202020min
The Yom Kippur War: A National Catastrophe
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 the outbreak of war on Yom Kippur 1973. Noam Weissman...
10 Marras 202026min
Munich Olympics: When Terrorism Won
The 1972 Munich Olympics was supposed to showcase the face of the new Germany. Instead, the horrific death of 11 Israeli athletes — slaughtered as the world watched — marked a watershed moment in the...
3 Marras 202024min
Eichmann: The Controversy of Justice
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 Nazi Adolf Eichmann prompted a fiery international de...
27 Loka 202020min
Hatikvah: The Story Behind the Anthem
Hatikvah, Israel’s national anthem, predates the establishment of the Jewish state by decades. Zionist leader Theodor Herzl hated it and many of Israel’s citizens refuse to sing it. So, how did this u...
20 Loka 202022min
The Altalena: Israel’s (Almost) Civil War
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 Menachem Begin — facing off in the ultimate power strug...
13 Loka 202025min
Deir Yassin: The Battle for Truth
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 tries to uncover what really happened on that fateful d...
6 Loka 202027min
