40: "The Wall" Part I - Operation Hulda
Israel Story
Israel Story
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🗓️ 2 July 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
And... we're back! We kick off our fourth season with a brand new miniseries - "The Wall." Today's roller-coaster of a mystery begins with Israeli paratroopers liberating the Kotel, continues with a symbolic mid-war birth, and ends up going in the most surprising direction imaginable.
Everywhere we turn these days, it seems as if walls are staring back at us. Their powers are magical: They protect and alienate; keep people both in and out; and can even - as we have all seen - bring mighty governments to a total standstill. Israel, too, has its share of walls, and no, not just the West Bank separation wall. In this four-part miniseries, we visit some of the country's most famous walls journeying from the Bronze Age to the modern-day Start-Up Nation, from the soccer pitch to the Six Day War, from the holy to the political.
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| 0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
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| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now. |
| 0:30.0 | And you've been reading the headlines, Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel. |
| 0:38.0 | But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing. This stuff seems complicated and honestly |
| 0:46.1 | you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning, |
| 0:50.3 | without really knowing what you're talking about. |
| 0:54.0 | And that's where this podcast comes in. |
| 0:57.0 | Check out unpacking Israeli history. |
| 1:00.0 | They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom |
| 1:06.5 | captured soldiers and the history of Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005. Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise |
| 1:16.9 | and helps you understand Israel's present through understanding Israel's |
| 1:20.5 | history. So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines. |
| 1:27.0 | Find unpacking Israeli history wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:44.0 | Last year, while working on a piece about the song Yru Shalaimshhel Zahav for a mixtape series. I went to interview Shulina Tan, the singer who originally sang it back in 1967. |
| 1:50.0 | When I showed up in her house in Ranaana, I discovered that a friend of hers, a heavy-set white-haired gentleman was randomly joining us for the interview. |
| 2:04.0 | After we were done, he walked me to the door. |
| 2:10.0 | Call me, he said. |
| 2:11.0 | I have a story for you. A few months later we met up. |
| 2:17.0 | My name is Lenachem Abbe Levy. I was born in April 1945 right at the end of World War II. My parents |
| 2:29.2 | were Holocaust survivors, my dad from Italy, mom from Germany, both of them escaped the Nazis |
| 2:37.1 | clutch in the very last minute in 1939. |
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