Unpacking Israeli History
Go behind the scenes of Israeli history with self-confessed history nerd Noam Weissman. Each week, he offers a fresh perspective on some of the most controversial and interesting events in the country’s history. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about what Israel is all about --from multiple angles… read more
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Black Saturday: How Far Would You Go For A Homeland?
October 14th, 2021
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This is the story of the men and women who brought us our state. Who ran guns, defended settlements, defied the Mandatory Powers that Be, smuggled shell-shocked refugees into …
Oslo: The Peace That Wasn't
October 7th, 2021
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By January 1993, the Israelis and the Palestinians had opened secret negotiations, culminating in the Oslo …
Sabra and Shatila: What Happened And Why It Matters
September 30th, 2021
The story of Sabra and Shatila is a horrifying one. A paramilitary Lebanese group massacres between 800 and 2,000 refugees, many in horrifying ways. And oddly...Israel is blamed …
Does Israel Represent All Jews?: The Great Debate
September 23rd, 2021
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A tension between Israeli and diaspora Jewry has been obvious since the founding of the state. And nowhere was that more apparent than in the epic exchanges between …
The Story Of Israel's Black Panthers
September 9th, 2021
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The modern country of Israel is a country of immigrants, and many are Mizrahi, ie Jews from North Africa and the Middle East. They came, often running for their lives, from …
The Great Debate Around German Reparations
September 2nd, 2021
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Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the …
Is Zionism…Racism?: UN Resolution 3379
August 27th, 2021
Dimona: Israel's "Secret" Nuclear Option
August 19th, 2021
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Have you heard about Israel's secret nuclear weapons in Dimona? Yeah, we haven't either. In this episode, Noam digs deep into how Israel's not-so-secret nuclear program came to …
Ingathering of Exiles: From Ethiopia to Israel
August 12th, 2021
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You might have heard of the Beta Israel, the community of Israel’s Ethiopian community. In this episode, Noam Weissman tells their story - not only their rich Jewish heritage and …
Operation Thunderbolt: The Raid On Entebbe
August 5th, 2021
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When Air France Flight 139 took off from Tel Aviv on the morning of June 27th, 1976, no one could have …
Introducing: This Week Unpacked
June 16th, 2021
Presenting: This Week Unpacked.
Unpacking Israeli History is all about excavating the past, but my colleagues at Unpacked have been working on a new …
What The Heck Is Going On In Israel?
May 24th, 2021
The news coming out of Israel is scaring and confusing all of us. Is Sheikh Jarrah a housing dispute, or something bigger? Who is responsible for the protests and riots all over the country? Why are thousands of rockets …
Gush Katif: When Jews expelled Jews
December 15th, 2020
The Second Intifada: trauma and tragedy
December 8th, 2020
The assassination of Yitzchak Rabin
December 1st, 2020
Baruch Goldstein: Legacy of a massacre
November 24th, 2020
The First Intifada: A grassroots movement
November 17th, 2020
The Yom Kippur War: A National Catastrophe
November 10th, 2020
Munich Olympics: When terrorism won
November 3rd, 2020
Eichmann: the controversy of justice
October 27th, 2020
Hatikvah: The story behind the anthem
October 20th, 2020
The Altalena: Israel’s (almost) civil war
October 13th, 2020
Deir Yassin: The battle for truth
October 6th, 2020
Hebrew: A dead language revived
September 29th, 2020
The Balfour Declaration: 67 words that changed the world
September 22nd, 2020
Herzl and the non-Promised Land
September 15th, 2020
Dreyfus: An Affair to Remember
September 8th, 2020
Introducing Unpacking Israeli History
August 25th, 2020
Explore the controversial, fascinating and confusing moments of Israeli history with host Noam Weissman. Join him each week as he unpacks another captivating story that you may have missed in history class.
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