Episode 195 George Marshall vs. Clark Clifford

Zionist leaders debate whether the nascent Jewish state should declare independence, and what that declaration should say. 

Israel’s Independence Day is marked on a date that’s different from the actual date independence took effect. Why, and what does it mean?

How the Jewish state was named Israel, and what that name means.  

As the War for Independence begins, Menachem Begin connects the Jewish past to the Jewish future in the new state.