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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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2025

They Are Coming Home

On October 13, all twenty living hostages come home after more than two years in captivity.

  1. A ceasefire takes effect; Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher are the first to return, and in the first phase of the agreement thirty-three hostages, living and dead, are returned in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees.
  2. Yuval Raphael, a survivor of the massacre at the Nova music festival, finishes second at the Eurovision Song Contest in Basel and first in the public vote.
  3. A twelve-day war with Iran, during which Israel and the United States strike Iranian nuclear facilities; Iranian missiles kill dozens of people in Israel, and in Iran, according to the authorities there, more than nine hundred are killed.
  4. Under an agreement to end the war, all twenty living hostages come home, Israel releases some two thousand Palestinian prisoners and detainees, and President Donald Trump addresses the Knesset.
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