The story of Israel's first fifty years of statehood, TKUMA brings to the screen the tragedies and joyful milestones of Israel's first half century: the ingathering of the exiles as the fledgling state becomes a haven for Jews around the word. Dramatic, personal accounts and documentary footage of the wars fought over five decades, along with rare behind-the-scenes insights into Israel's efforts to make peace.
Who is a Jew Israel wrestles with its national identity. Israel's economic revolution takes the country from the orange to the computer chip in a few years. The people, the places, the spirit of Israel in its first fifty years
The sequel to the Amud Ha'esh' series.
TKUMA 22 Episodes:
1. A Generation in Israel the Arab Revolt and Battle against the British 1936 1947
2. A Nation in the Making 1948 War and Declaration of Independence
3. The Silver Tray Repelling the Arab Armies and the Armistice
4. The Melting Pot Mass Immigration 1948 1955
5. A Nation in Uniform Retribution Combat and Sinai Campaign
6. In the Shadow of the Holocaust The Silence of the Survivors and the Eichmann Trail 1948 1961
7. Say Yes to the Old Man David Ben Gurion's Leadership 1948-1965
8. The Watershed Line The Six Day War 1967
9. We Never Had it so Good Israel Between the Six Day War and the Yom Kipur War 1967 1973
10. Earthquake The Yom Kipur War 1973
11. The Opsimist Israeli Arabs from 1948 to the Land Day 1948 1967
12. The Second Israel Racial? Protests and the Political Revolution 1959 1981
13. Always at War? The Peace Treaty with Egypt 1977 1979
14. Beginnings of Redemption Gush Emunim Settlements 1973 1982
15. Billadi Billadi Israel Against Palestinian Terrorist Organizations 1976 1982
16. A Crack in the Foundations The Shlom Hagalil War 1982
17. Let Us Live in this Country Economy from the Rationing Period to the Stock Market Crash 1949 1983
18. The Stone and the Olive Leaf The Entifadah and Oslo Accords 1987 1993
19. Let My People Go Israel and Soviet Jewry 1948 1993
20. Israel and the Diaspora Israel and American Jewry 1948 1993
21. The Wailing Wall and the Mountain Secular Religious Relations 1948 1993
22. Goodbye, Friend From Oslo to the Rabin Assassination 1993 1995
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