A playlist from The Jewish Story
The Golan Heights
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Six-Day War part VI The power of determination
June 26, 2020 · 40 min · Episode page →
There are certain qualities which, when they manifest, define one's story -determination is one of them. Here is the story of the conquest of the Golan and the...
About this playlist
The Golan Heights, taken in 1967, held at great cost in 1973, and brought under Israeli law in 1981.
Where this sits in the story
2 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
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