Aside from demonstrating that Israel felt responsible for the entire Jewish People, and accordingly would bring a mass-murderer to trial for an act that had been perpetuated before the State was formed, and not on its turf, extracting him from a third country half a world away, Israel's prime minister had an educational agenda that would be accomplished through the trial.

Israel's youth had never encountered the Holocaust and were appallingly ignorant and derisive about the subject. How could Jews be so passive about their own deaths, they wondered, and they treated survivors with scorn instead of with the respect and sympathy that they deserved.

The Eichmann trial changed all of this as the entire country listed in rapt attention as 110 witnesses took the stand and explained in meticulous detail what the Nazis perpetrated and what they had suffered. As Israel's lead prosecutor said in his opening statement that he does not stand alone, with him are six million accusers.

The trial was well-received around the world as an embodiment of historical justice, although it surprisingly also revealed the banality of evil.

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Schindler's list - John Williams - NL orchestra Guilliame

How did the Mossad capture the Man who disappeared: Unpacked

The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann CBS Sunday Morning
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Yad Vashem

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The Talmud teaches that God's seal is truth; lying displays that you care more what your fellow man thinks than what the Lord thinks of you. A half a truth is a whole lie and partial truths should not be rationalized or legitimized. One of the attributes of The Valorous Woman that Solomon extolls is "the heart of her husband trusts in her." Trust can only be earned by being a consistently honest person, whose word is constantly reliable, and admits when they make a mistake.
Everyone knows that lies travel at a faster velocity than the truth; and this was even before the digital age. Thanks to the internet and social media, a lie is far more powerful than ever previously conceived.
Hitler outlined his plan for ruling Germany in his manifesto ,Mein Kampf. A key component to taking power was the implementation of the "Big Lie," explained at length in our forthcoming character episode p"G (Season Six, Episode 7).

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The Boy Who Cried Wolf: a lesson in honesty: Kid Stories

Rita Panahi and Australian Sky News with guest Alext Stein
From Nazi Propaganda to Digital Hate: How Messages Spread: Nous and Ali Javed

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In a daring and bold action, Israel's Mossad captured Adolph Eichmann, the man most responsible for the Nazi genocide of European Jewry. How the Mossad managed to locate Eichmann in the Nazi haven of Argentina and secret him out undetected is described in detail in this episode. Also described are the emotions that gnawed at the minds of all Israelis. Could even a fraction of justice ever be exacted for the millions that were lost?

The enormity of Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem to be tried by Jewish judges in Jewish state was lost on no one.

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Schindler's list - John Williams - NL orchestra Guilliame
How the 1944 Hungarian Massacre Sent 440,000 Jews to Death and Ended in Execution-Rethinking WW II
How did the Mossad capture the Man who disappeared: Unpacked
The Dark Night Alec Koff Label

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Israel's lighting campaign in the Sinai in 1956 resulted in a routing of the Egyptian forces and capture of the entire Sinai Peninsula in less than 100 hours. The threat of Egypt deploying its brand-new military hardware from the Soviet Union had been averted. But in a fluke of history, President Eisenhower, instead of siding with his natural allies, Britain, France and Israel, sided with the Soviet Union and Nasser's Egypt and demanded immediate Israeli withdrawal in return for nothing – or else!

Eventually Israel received guarantees of right of passage through the Staits of Tiran and that the United Nations Expeditionary Force would be stationed in Gaza to prevent the penetration of Fedayeen terrorists into Israel. Israel's case against the unaccommodating Eisenhower administration, most notably Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was assisted by Lyndon Johnson, Democratic leader in the Senate, and members of the press and Congress who were friends of Israel.

The United States was employing a painful double standard by not doing anything as Hungarian protestors demanded freedom from Soviet oppression, and were murdered wholesale for their dissidence; yet the United States demanded with the threat of immediate sanctions, that Israel, which had gone to war for legitimate grievances, immediately withdraw from the entire Sinai.

Israel gained from the battle a decade of quiet which was so necessary to build the State, and in the process demonstrated that the Middle East had a new military power.

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Welcome Back Kotter theme song – The Great Take
Royal Entrance Fanfare - Randy Dunn
Ben Power Amen (official video)
The Soviets Crushed the Hungarian Revolution by Trickery - USSR Decoded The Suez Crisis (1956): Eisenhower's Response to the Anglo-French-Israeli Action – History Central

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Middle-Eastern Duet Worship Song in Arabic & English ("DAVID DANCED")
Military Cinematic Army Marching Drums Epic BGM / Background Music by Florews
The Entire Battle History of the Suez Crisis and Sinai Crisis (1956) Historic Slumber
Gun Battle Sound Effects vfx Sound-Free Audio
War Tension background music Stock Audio
War for the control of the Suez Canal History of Israel/ Unpacked series
Suez Crisis 1956 - Cold War DOCUMENTARY Kings and Generals
Machar IDF Choir
Fast, energetic music Halidon Music William Tell Overture Rossini

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Way back in Season One (episode 28 – really worth listening to!) famous lecturer and New York Times best-selling author, Rabbi Joseph Telushkin came on the show to explain "moral imagination." When the opportunity arose, I sat him down to get another vital installment concerning what should be a critical component of our character.

Our sagacious guest discusses a widow marrying a second husband and if this entails betrayal to her former spouse or their children? Rabbi Telushkin analyzes the dying wish of the famous Jewish ethicist Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, and how people should prepare for their own demise. We are then taken to the Jewish community of New York City in 1895, fearful of the backlash from the visit of a prominent antisemite, and how the clever police commissioner, Teddy Roosevelt came to the rescue. The episode concludes with the moving portrayal of (remarkably unknown) Holocaust hero, Roddy Edmonds, and how his story was posthumously revealed.

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Credits:
Middle-Eastern Duet Worship Song in Arabic & English ("DAVID DANCED")
WW2 Aircraft sound effects George Vlad
Radio Staic – sound Effect, Audio Library
i24News English Insight IDF Reservists: Citizen Soldiers 02/24/2014
1956 Arab Israeli War (Suez Crisis) Erahive
The Entire Battle History of the Suez Crisis and Sinai Crisis (1956) Historic Slumber

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Egypt purchased state of the art weaponry from the Soviet Union that obliterated any balance of power between Israel and her Arab adversaries. Egypt would have the armament, it already had the desire, to wipe out Israel.
Israel naturally turned to its trusted ally, the United States, but the days of Harry Truman were over. The new President, Dwight Eisenhower, together with his State Department which has traditionally been slanted against Israel, saw wisdom in aligning with the far more numerous Arabs. Israel desperately needed a friend that manufactured weapons, and that ally turned out to be France.
France's primary motivation was the principle that the enemy of your enemy is your friend. FLN freedom fighters in Algeria were seeking freedom from France and they were armed and trained by Egypt. When Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal and expels western managers, Britain and France know that they must act and their unlikely partner is Israel.

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Trailer Music Empire, String of Fire
Epic History, Suez Crises
Happy Coffee House, Paris Cafe Ambience with French Music for a Good Mood
Sammy Burdson Timpani Roll
Soundrise Music Ticking Tension
Jedi Orchestra plays The Throne Room conducted by Andrzej Kucybała
One For Israel "DAVID DANCED"

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