For September, we're doing something different. Presenting, Unpacking Israeli History. Begin and Ben Gurion had some epics battles, but one of the biggest ones happened in 1952, as these two Israeli giants battled about whether to take German reparations after the Holocaust. In this episode, Noam looks all the way back at this crazy story, and leaves us asking, who was right?~~~~Unpacking Israeli History is generously sponsored by Alan Fisher and Barbara Sommer, and Jon and Rachie Teller.~~~~Learn more about Unpacked: https://jewishunpacked.com/about/Visit Unpacked on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/unpacked See the full season of Unpacking Israeli History here: https://jewishunpacked.com/podcast-series/unpacking-israeli-history/~~~~Sourceshttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/us/ta-nehisi-coates-reparations.htmlhttps://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/67de380e-8b71-412c-8d06-70af9b31da25https://www.ushmm.org/exhibition/displaced-persons/daily2.htmhttps://www.jpost.com/israel-news/israel-breaks-50-year-record-for-most-rainfall-613693tastecooking.com/truth-israeli-couscous/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144226014.pdfhttps://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/700356426/thousands-of-israelis-now-call-berlin-home-and-make-their-cultural-markhttps://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/labor-and-internment-camps-in-north-africahttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110255386.100/htmlhttp://auschwitz.org/en/history/punishments-and-executions/https://blog.nli.org.il/en/reparations-agreement/https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/28248/1001729.pdf?sequence=1https://www.aicgs.org/2019/11/the-september-1952-reparations-agreement-between-west-germany-and-israel-the-beginning-of-a-remarkable-friendship/https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/german-holocaust-reparationsMenachem Begin: The Battle for Israel's Soul, by Danny GordisBen-Gurion: Father of Modern Israel, Anita Shapira~~~~Unpacked is a division of OpenDor Media