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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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The Zionist Time Machine
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2009

A First Israeli Woman Laureate

Professor Ada Yonath wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the first Israeli woman to win the prize.

  1. Operation Cast Lead ends with a unilateral Israeli ceasefire; thirteen Israelis were killed in the operation, and in the Gaza Strip, according to various sources, between about one thousand one hundred and about one thousand four hundred Palestinians were killed.
  2. Benjamin Netanyahu's second government is sworn in at the Knesset.
  3. Pope Benedict XVI visits Israel, including Yad Vashem and the Western Wall.
  4. Professor Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute of Science wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her research on the structure and function of the ribosome.
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