A playlist from The Jewish Story
The Road to Suez, 1954–56
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Israel among the nations part I The Lavon Affair 1954
September 5, 2019 · 48 min · Episode page →
The 1950's were a formative time in Israeli history. The Cold War was getting hot, internal politics were volatile, and the it seemed as if the War of...
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Israel among the nations in its first decade: the Lavon Affair, the slide toward war, and Operation Kadesh, the 1956 Sinai campaign.
Where this sits in the story
1954–1956 · 1 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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