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1948 — 2025 · Seventy-eight years

The Zionist
Time Machine

Every year in Israel's history is a station. Turn the dial and hear what was on the air — original archival photos, voices from the radio, the story, and the song of that year.

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1965

A Museum, a Tower and an Embassy

The Israel Museum opened in Jerusalem, and diplomatic relations were established with West Germany.

  1. The Israel Museum is inaugurated in Jerusalem.
  2. Eli Cohen, a Mossad operative who worked in Syria, is executed in Damascus.
  3. The department store in Tel Aviv's Shalom Meir Tower opens; at its inauguration it was the tallest building in the Middle East.
  4. In the elections to the Sixth Knesset, the Alignment, led by Levi Eshkol, is victorious.
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