39: "Mixtape" Part IV – War, Peace and Bumper Stickers
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🗓️ 15 June 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In our season finale, we explore two songs that - perhaps more than any others - capture the complex and intermingled nature of Israeli society.
Over the last four episodes, we’ve told the stories behind some of Israel’s most iconic songs. When we set off on this musical journey, we hoped to find a unicorn, a unifying island of Israeliness that escapes the usual polarization which dominates most conversations about Israel. Instead, however, we discovered that music not only reflects, but often amplifies, our contrasts. We all sing in different keys, with different words and in different voices. And that, at the end of the day, is what Israel is all about. It is not that the inherent complications go away or stop existing. It’s just that somehow, miraculously perhaps, the cacophony can almost sound harmonious.
In today’s episode, the final installment of the Mixtape miniseries, we turn to Yitzhak Rabin’s 1995 assassination, and to two songs – one taking us decades back, the other catapulting us forward into the 21st century – that symbolize the messy multifariousness of Israeli society.
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| 0:20.0 | Hey, I'm Ishii Harmon and this is the season finale of Israel's story. |
| 0:27.0 | Israel Story is brought to you by PRX and is produced together with |
| 0:32.0 | Tablet magazine. |
| 0:35.0 | Okay, so for the past three episodes, |
| 0:39.0 | we've been on a journey, a musical journey, |
| 0:42.0 | made up entirely of the stories behind some of Israel's most iconic tunes. |
| 0:48.0 | Stories that somehow capture the bubbling tensions, the complications, and the intricacies within Israeli society. |
| 0:57.2 | We've heard all about our national anthem, Hatikva, |
| 1:01.6 | and about the dueling anthems of the Six Day War, |
| 1:05.0 | Yerushalaim's in Zahav and Yerushalaim |
| 1:07.0 | she'll Brazil. |
| 1:08.0 | We've peaked behind the scenes of Mitahat-Lashamaim |
| 1:11.0 | and explored the ongoing love affair between Israel and the Olympics of cheesy |
| 1:16.1 | pop melodies, the Eurovision. Last episode we heard the tale of Zor or Gov and the rise of mainstream Mizrahi music. |
| 1:25.0 | In what was till that point, a music scene dominated by a Shkinasi culture. |
| 1:31.0 | And today we've reached our last episode of the miniseries. |
| 1:36.0 | Mix tape part 4. War, peace, and bumper stickers. |
| 1:54.8 | Now we've already encountered some of the country's most important singers and musicians. Eric Einstein, David Broza, no my Shemer, |
| 1:57.6 | me Rheer Rheel, Isarco and Zor, Gove, all pillars of Israelis in different ways. |
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