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Israel Beat — 130 episodes

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1

Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joachim Prinz and the March on Washington

2

Who’s the Bully? Decoding Bob Dylan’s song about Israel

3

Let My People Watch: Your Favorite Passover Movies

4

Emperor in Exile: Haile Selassie in Jerusalem

5

Rockefeller Museum. A Little Known Jerusalem Gem

6

Tu Bishvat Special – Galilee Eco Center – Regenerative, Sustainable Agriculture Center

7

History of Kfar Chabad - Israeli hasidic village

8

History of Ancient Beersheba and the Horned Altar

9

Jewish Brigade – Rescuing Holocaust Survivors in Secret Missions

10

The Land God Chose - Interview with Cynthia Hannah

11

The Incredible Story of a 300-Year-Old Jewish Businesswoman’s Diary

12

Maccabi Tel Aviv’s Dramatic 1977 Victory Put Israel “On the Map”

13

The Polish Rabbis Who Founded Bnei Brak

14

The Queen Has Fallen – A Gush Etzion Family’s Journey from Captivity to Music Festival

15

Dinosaur Footprints Near Jerusalem

16

Shofar Adventures Around the World

17

Seashell Lottery and the Founding of Tel Aviv

18

Biblical Jewish Harps Make a Comeback in Israel

19

Jewish War Hero David “Mickey” Marcus and the Founding of Israel

20

How Garbage Pail Kids had a Lasting Impact on Israeli Politics

21

The Man Who Saved Safed – Earthquakes, Kidnappings and Bat Ayin

22

History of Klezmer Music in Israel

23

History of Israeli Fighter Jets

24

Gender, Passover and Jewish text in the Haggadah

25

Passover Memories – An Oral History

26

The Titanic, the Straus Brothers and Jerusalem

27

Judah Bibas, Forgotten Precursor to Zionism Honored

28

Israel in Eurovision: A Retrospective

29

The Inspiring Women Who Founded Hadassah Hospital

30

Founding of Hebrew University

31

Ska, Reggae and Jewish Music with King Django

32

Einstein on Zionism, Hebrew University and Israel

33

Jazz Legend Arnie Lawrence live performance

34

Chaim Weizmann, Scientist and Statesman

35

Jerusalem’s Transformation from Quaint to High-Rise

36

How a Holocaust Survivor Inspired Today’s Rabbis

37

The UN, Zionism and Racism

38

Rebuilding the Hurva Synagogue and Jerusalem’s Old City

39

Yemenite Aliyah - From the Desert to Israel on Iron Eagles Wings

40

Interview with Ethiopian Chief Rabbi on History of Sigd

41

American Volunteers Inspire and Get Inspired in Israel

42

How Zionist artists explored their Jewish identity

43

Robert F. Kennedy and the Founding of Israel

44

Israel’s Oldest Reserve Soldier Praises Today’s Youth

45

Can the Chief Rabbi Shake a Woman’s Hand?

46

Israel Strikes Iraqi Nuclear Reactor

47

How I almost got arrested in Uman

48

S. Y. Agnon, Israel’s first Nobel Prize Winner

49

From Militant Zionist to Music Festival Pioneer

50

Top 5 Amazing Jewish / Israeli Board Games

51

The First Hebrew Science Fiction Book

52

When Israel Rescued Vietnamese Refugees

53

Desert Miracle – History of Gush Katif, the Jewish communities of Gaza

54

George Eliot, Jewish Identity and Zionism

55

Secrets of Jerusalem's National Institutions Building

56

Jewish Olympics - History of the Maccabiah Games

57

Legends of the Ohr HaChaim, from Morocco to Jerusalem

58

Was Mark Twain Anti-Semitic or Philo-Semitic?

59

Audio Bible - Psalms: Book 1: Chapters 1 - 41

60

The Story of WEIZAC, Israel’s First Computer

61

The Truth about the Golem and the Maharal of Prague

62

History of the Jewish Community of Rafah in Gaza

63

Why I Don’t Like Cheesecake – A Shavuot podcast with special guest Joel Haber

64

The Story of the Song “Jerusalem of Gold”

65

History of Lag BaOmer in Meron

66

Flying Camels and Clandestine Pilots - The History of Israeli Aviation

67

The Jewish Refugee Musicians who Created the Palestine Orchestra

68

Pinhas Rutenberg - from Scowling Socialist to Zionist Hydro-Power Visionary

69

Jewish Man Falsely Accused in Blood Libel Moves to Israel

70

A Jewish homeland in Palestine or New York?

71

Man Goes on Trial for Insanity after Converting to Judaism

72

History of Shaare Zedek Hospital and its founders

73

Purim & the Gulf War – An Oral History

74

How a 12-year-old girl became the first person to explore the Cave of Machpela

75

How Max Nordau Switched from Assimilationist to Zionist

76

How Rachel's Tomb inspired Lady Judith Montefiore

77

The Yiddish Cowboys of Argentina

78

A Blessing for Israel’s First Elections in 1949

79

The Hidden Cemetery of Jerusalem’s Gan Sacher and the victory of the Six Day War

80

Miracle of Moroccan Aliyah

81

Tu Bishvat Special: History of Israeli Drip Irrigation

82

Biography of the Baba Sali, Mystical Moroccan Rabbi

83

Ethiopian Aliyah – Jewish Ethiopian Struggle to Immigrate to Israel

84

Re-Discovery of Tekhelet and the Significance of the Tallit

85

Uziel Gal, inventor of the Uzi submachine gun

86

Tenth of Tevet, the Holocaust and Soviet Jewry

87

Chanukah During World War II

88

Israeli Musicians Inspire IDF Soldiers at Gaza Army Bases

89

Kindertransport Refugee Walter Bingham Returns to Germany

90

History of Krav Maga

91

History of Pro-Israel Rallies

92

PODCAST: History of Israel Tanks

93

What it's like to be an Israeli tour guide

94

PODCAST: History of Magen David Adom, Israeli paramedics

95

Podcast: History of Am Yisrael Chai

96

History of Jewish Gaza

97

Audiobook: If Not Higher by I. L. Peretz

98

History of the Carlebach Moshav

99

Yom Kippur Miracle

100

PODCAST: Inspirational Rosh Hashannah Stories

101

Joshua's Alter on Mount Ebal & Prof. Adam Zertal

102

History of Jerusalem's First Train Station, Silo Cafe & Woodstock

103

Jerusalem's Hutzot Hayotzer Festival and a lost Jewish neighborhood

104

Music Festival Merges History and Rhythms

105

Bezalel Academy of Arts Students Create & Innovate in Graduate Exhibition

106

Classic: Lone Soldier Center helps immigrant IDF soldiers

107

The Jewish Legion - 1st Jewish fighting force in 2,000 years

108

Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall, World War I and more

109

Bible Audio - Lamentations - Eicha - Full text

110

Biography of Zev Jabotinsky - with rare 1930s audio

111

Tribute to Rabbi Sholom Gold & the History of the OU

112

Classic: Young American yeshiva band rocks out at Unity of the Bands concert

113

Tekoa Beer Festival & History of this Unique Judea Community

114

History of Vegan and Vegetarian Jews

115

PODCAST: Yonatan Ben Uzziel and Amuka

116

PODCAST: Martin Buber in Abu Tor, Jerusalem

117

PODCAST: Jerusalem's Historic Khan Theater

118

PODCAST: History of King David's Tomb

119

AUDIO - Book of Ruth - Full text

120

PODCAST: Rabbi Shlomo Goren and the Liberation of Jerusalem

121

PODCAST: Theodor Herzl, visionary of the Zionist Movement

122

PODCAST: First Modern Hotel in Israel: Menachem Mendel of Kaminitz

123

PODCAST: Biography of Rabbi Haim Druckman

124

Passover Hagaddah in English - Full text

125

Podcast: Yehuda Bibas - Proto-Zionist

126

Book of Esther - Full Text - Purim Megillah

127

Forgotten Purims of Yesteryear

128

PODCAST: History of Ovadiah Bartenura

129

PODCAST: History of the 1837 Tzfat Earthquake

130

PODCAST: Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Father of Modern Hebrew - 100 Years