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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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1990

They Are Coming

The great wave of immigration from the Soviet Union brings more than one hundred and eighty thousand immigrants to Israel in a single year.

  1. The national unity government led by Yitzhak Shamir fell in a Knesset no-confidence vote, in a political maneuver that became known as "the Dirty Trick".
  2. Yitzhak Shamir presented a new government without the Alignment, and it won the confidence of the Knesset.
  3. Iraq invaded Kuwait, and in the following months Israel prepared for the possibility of war, including by distributing protective kits to civilians.
  4. More than one hundred and eighty thousand immigrants from the Soviet Union arrived in Israel within a single year – a record not seen since the days of mass immigration.
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