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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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1992

Rabin Returns

Yitzhak Rabin leads the Labor Party to victory in the elections and returns as prime minister.

  1. A terror attack on the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina; twenty-nine people were killed.
  2. In the elections to the Thirteenth Knesset, the Labor Party led by Yitzhak Rabin won, and his government was sworn in on 13 July.
  3. An El Al cargo plane (Flight 1862) crashed into apartment buildings in the Bijlmer neighborhood of Amsterdam.
  4. In the Tze'elim B disaster, five Sayeret Matkal soldiers were killed in a training accident.
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