CONTENT & RESOURCES
If it was mentioned in Jew Oughta Know, you’ll probably find it here. Also check out the individual episodes.
ZIONISM (Season Two)
THE PEOPLE (CON’T)
THE ZIONIST TREE
Zionism is the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their indigenous homeland, and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. There are a variety of branches representing different (sometimes complimentary, sometimes competing) ideologies around the best way to achieve the Zionist goal.
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UNSOLVED JEWISH MYSTERIES (Season Three)
ISRAELI HISTORY (Season Four, up to 1967)
THE PEOPLE
Yasser Arafat
Eli Cohen
Abba Eban
Adolf Eichmann
Levi Eshkol
Fedayeen
The Haredi (ultra-Orthodox)
Isser Harel
King Hussein of Jordan
Rudolf Kastner
Pinchas Lavon
Peter Malkin
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Shimon Peres
Ariel Sharon
Moshe Sharett
Khalil al-Wazir (Abu Jihad)
major events in israel
Declaration of Independence (1948)
War of Independence (1948-49)
The Palestinian Exodus (1948-49)
Martial law on Arab-Israelis (1948-1960s)
The Altalena (1948)
First National Election (1949)
Burial of Theodore Herzl (1949)
Operation Magic Carpet (1949)
The Law of Return (1950)
Blaustein-Ben Gurion Agreement (1950)
Operation Ezra & Nehemiah (1951)
German reparations agreement (1952)
Fedayeen terrorism and retaliation (1953-1956)
The Lavon Affair (1955)
The Sinai Campaign (1956)
Nuclear energy & weapons achieved (1950s/60s)
Wadi Salib riots (1959)
The capture of Adolf Eichmann (1960)
Trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961)
Ben Gurion resigns (1963)
National Water Carrier opens (1964)
Oscar nomination for Sallah Shabati (1964)
Palestine Liberation Organization founded (1964)
Eli Cohen executed (1965)
SY Agnon wins Nobel Prize (1966)
The Hamtanah (Waiting Period)(1967)
Major institutions
Development Towns
Fatah
Hadassah – Women’s Zionist Organization of America
Herut Party (later Likud)
The Israeli Air Force (IAF)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF)
The Israel Museum / Shrine of the Book
The Knesset
Ma’abarot
Mapai Party (later Labor)
The Negev Nuclear Research Center
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
The Rabbinate
Yad Vashem
israeli prime ministers
David Ben Gurion (1948-1954, 1955-1963)
Moshe Sharett (1954-1955)
Levi Eshkol (1963-1969)
Major Israeli Wars
War of Independence (1948)
Sinai Campaign (1956)