A playlist from The Jewish Story
Ariel Sharon
Episode 1 of 10
The limits of retaliation
May 24, 2019 · 45 min · Episode page →
Every value has a boundary and every state a border, which means that often we have to fight to maintain them. Here is the story of Israel's struggle...
About this playlist
Ariel Sharon, from the reprisal raids of the 1950s to the crossing of the Suez Canal, the Lebanon War, the Temple Mount and the wall.
Where this sits in the story
3 of 9 eras
The Second Temple600 BCE–70 CESages and Geonim70–1000Sefarad and Ashkenaz1000–1492After the Expulsion1492–1700Modernity Arrives1700–1880Return and Catastrophe1880–1948The Young State1948–1967After 19671967–1987Into the Present1987–2023
More in the leaders
PersonHillel and Rabbi Akiva
The two great sages on either side of the destruction: Hillel, prince of the Torah in the last generations of the…3 episodes →
PersonThe Rambam
The Rambam, Maimonides: physician, philosopher and codifier, the storm over his books after his death, and the long…7 episodes →PersonThe Baal Shem Tov and Hasidism
The Baal Shem Tov, the Hasidic movement he inspired, the opposition it provoked, and the courts it built across Eastern…3 episodes →Person