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1: The Assignment
The opening episode follows the decision of investigative journalist MICHAEL GREENSPAN
to accept an invitation to accept an assignment to research the stories of incredible
occurrences in Israel in the twentieth century, particularly during its major wars -
stories that defy logic and reason in their outcome. The episode features the dramatization
from the Yom Kippur War of tank commander DAVID YANIV’s Golan experience, when a mysterious wind
came out of nowhere to expose thousands of mines in the field where they were stranded, saving their
lives only meters away from passing Syrian tank convoys.
2: Miracle At Michmash
Michael travels to Michmash to investigate two stories that history records happened there 2,000 years apart.
The episode dramatizes the story of British major VIVIAN GILBERT, whose brigade was sent by Allenby to rout
out the Turkish garrison at Michmash, in preparation for the assault on Jericho during World War I.
But the night before the battle, Gilbert read the Biblical account of Saul and Jonathan, who in 1050 BC.
were camped in the same place as the British were now - and faced a garrison of 30,000 Philistines at Michmash.
Gilbert is inspired to follow Jonathan’s unorthodox battle plan and experiences a similar, some would say
‘miraculous’, victory against all logic for its success.
3: Shula - The Girl Who Became a Spy
Michael meets 85 year old SHULA COHEN and the episode dramatizes her amazing story of becoming a spy for
Israel in 1948 in Beruit, where her wealthy husband and her acceptance in Lebanese / Syrian social circles
gave her unprecedented access to secret intelligence information. In a story reminiscent of Queen Esther
in the Bible, she risks her comfortable lifestyle and social life to help her people, but unlike Esther,
Shula pays a high price for her choice. Imprisoned in 1960, she endures seven years of torture and abuse
before a secret prisoner exchange after the Six Day War, allows Shula to come home to Jerusalem.
4: The Miracle Of Survival - Pt 1 Ceaser to Hitler
No examination of modern Israel can be appreciated without a look at the tragedy of the Holocaust that erased
one third of the world’s Jews in one devastating season of hate at the hand of Adolf Hitler. In this powerful
episode, Michael is joined by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who endured Aushwitz concentration camp and became
a champion for human rights around the world. The episode features archive images of the war and the events that
shaped a determination by the Jews of Europe to seek a homeland where they could be free. The program examines how
world opinion was swayed to support the Zionist cause after the war and examines the courage of those who gave their
lives to lay the foundation for the rebirth of Israel that they would never see themselves.
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