66: Game Changer
Israel Story
Israel Story
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
With the fate of the 2020 - now 2021 - Tokyo Olympic Games still up in the air, our season finale tells the story of a dream to introduce a sport to a nation, and a nation to a sport. But it is a dream made up of as many tears of pain and disappointment as it is of joy and triumph.
Joel Shupack scored and sound-designed the episode with music from Blue Dot Sessions. Sela Waisblum created the mix.
The episode’s end song is Lifney She’Yigamer (“Before it Ends”) by Idan Raichel.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to this podcast, so I know you care about the war in Israel right now. |
| 0:08.0 | And you've been reading the headlines. |
| 0:10.0 | Massacre and Gaza, genocide perpetrated by Hamas, no by Israel. |
| 0:15.0 | But if you've been listening to this podcast long enough, you know one thing. |
| 0:20.0 | This stuff seems complicated, and honestly you shouldn't just pick aside or decide your opinion without really learning without really knowing what you're talking about. |
| 0:31.0 | And that's where this podcast comes in. Check out unpacking Israeli |
| 0:36.4 | history. They have episodes with topics ranging from what is Hamas anyway to whether Israel should ransom captured soldiers and the history of |
| 0:46.8 | Israel and its disengagement from Gaza in 2005. |
| 0:51.8 | Unpacking Israeli history cuts through the noise and helps you understand Israel's |
| 0:56.2 | present through understanding Israel's history. |
| 0:59.8 | So educate yourself. Learn the history behind the headlines. Find unpacking Israeli history |
| 1:07.4 | wherever you get your podcasts. 1992 was a meaningful year for me. There were sad moments. My grandfather died, my dog sunshine died, my favorite |
| 1:25.2 | basketball player Larry Bird retired from the game, but there were also many good, |
| 1:30.4 | even historical things that happen that year. |
| 1:33.0 | We shall not fight against each other. |
| 1:36.0 | Boris Yeltsin and George Bush formally declared the end of the Cold War. |
| 1:41.0 | The Cold War days are over. |
| 1:43.0 | More than a billion people around the world |
| 1:49.0 | watched the Freddie Mercury tribute concert, |
| 1:52.0 | which raised millions of dollars for AIDS research. |
| 1:57.4 | And the Vatican finally vindicated Galileo. |
| 2:01.0 | The Pope said the church was sorry but it was wrong. |
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