
Episode 13·Apr 30, 2023
Israel’s Economy and Society Transformed, 1979 to 2021
How the State of Israel became a robust democracy, an economic powerhouse, and a true home for the Jewish people.
Podcast · 13 Episodes
Join Dr. Daniel Polisar on a journey through the miraculous reconstitution of the modern Jewish state, from Napoleon to Herzl to Menachem Begin and beyond.
Episode 13·Apr 30, 2023
How the State of Israel became a robust democracy, an economic powerhouse, and a true home for the Jewish people.
Episode 12·Apr 30, 2023
Dr. Polisar analyzes the strategic reality in which Israel has functioned during the last four decades and its successes and failures in that time.
Episode 11·Apr 29, 2023
How Israel's victory in the Yom Kippur War laid the groundwork for the most important peace agreement in its history.
Episode 10·Apr 28, 2023
Dr. Polisar explores how the Six-Day War transformed Israel's reality, the War of Attrition, and birth of the U.S.-Israel alliance.
Episode 9·Apr 26, 2023
In the Sinai War and the Six-Day War, Israel acted decisively to defend itself against its Arab neighbors and lay the basis for long-term security.
Episode 8·Apr 26, 2023
How Israel—led by David Ben-Gurion—overcame its early challenges and laid the foundations for a thriving society and state.
Episode 7·Apr 26, 2023
Dr. Polisar breaks down the causes and consequences of Israel's victory in the War of Independence, as well as its Declaration of Independence.
Episode 6·Apr 26, 2023
Dr. Polisar analyzes the decisions made within the Land of Israel and outside it that revived the prospects for a Jewish state after it seemed impossible.
Episode 5·Apr 26, 2023
Arabs escalate violence against Jews as the British try to appease them. Meanwhile, Jews build the institutions that could serve as the nucleus for their state.
Episode 4·Apr 26, 2023
Efforts to move to the Land of Israel and build a state accelerate just as Zionist diplomacy pays off with the Balfour Declaration.
Episode 3·Apr 26, 2023
How Theodor Herzl became Zionism's chief diplomat, institution-builder, and ideological visionary.
Episode 2·Apr 26, 2023
Dr. Polisar explores how the Jews revived the Hebrew language, developed the Zionist idea, and began to resettle the land beginning in the early 19th century.
Episode 1·Apr 6, 2023
How did the Jews overcome seemingly impossible odds to establish a state whose accomplishments are described as miraculous even by secular people?
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