A playlist from The Jewish Story
Terror and Response
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Eli Cohen, hero of Israel
March 18, 2020 · 46 min · Episode page →
Historians may argue about whether one person can shift the course of history, but everyone agrees that a hero can change the world. Here is the story of...
About this playlist
How Israel has answered those who came to kill its people: Eli Cohen in Damascus, the limits of retaliation, Black September, Munich, the question of vengeance, and the raid on Entebbe.
Where this sits in the story
1953–1976 · 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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