{"id":19,"date":"2014-06-06T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T10:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toldot.letatlinstudio.com\/en\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2014-12-25T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T09:38:32","slug":"press","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/press\/","title":{"rendered":"Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"media en\"><time>05.02.2018<\/time>New York Jewish Week<h2>Seven Decades Later, Unsung \u201948 Heroes Are Heard<\/h2>Gary Rosenblatt<div class=\"text\"><p>Soon after the end of World War II, Zimel Resnick, a Russian Jewish immigrant operating an amusement park in New Jersey, was contacted by a good friend in Palestine.\u00a0Resnick was asked to help raise funds and arms for the Haganah...<a href=\"http:\/\/jewishweek.timesofisrael.com\/seven-decades-later-unsung-48-heroes-are-heard\/\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>02.01.2018<\/time>Jerusalem Post<h2>70 Years On: The Bombing of the Post's Offices, and the Paper's Legacy<\/h2>David Brinn<div class=\"text\"><p>Three young staffers at the\u00a0<em>Palestine Post<\/em>\u00a0that day in 1948; three lives spared. Alexander Zvielli, Mordecai Chertoff and Marlin Levin were all at work on the evening of February 1 that year. In separate interviews before they all passed away over the last decade, they recalled the harrowing attack that claimed four lives...<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/70-years-on-The-bombing-of-the-Post-offices-and-the-papers-legacy-540401\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>10.13.2014<\/time>Voice of Israel<h2>Eternalizing Israel's Founding History<\/h2>Josh Hasten<div class=\"text\"><p>Aryeh Halivni, Founder and Executive Director of Toldot Yisrael tells Josh Hasten his group has recorded over 3,000 hours of unique and historical footage, firsthand testimonies of the men and women who helped found the State of Israel....<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/voiceofisrael\/hl-3-hasten-oct13-2014\" target=\"_blank\">Listen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>06.06.2014<\/time>Ulpan Shishi - Channel 2 News<h2>The War of Reenactment<\/h2>Shai Gal<div class=\"text\"><p>The State of Israel was established 66 years ago and the people who built it, the ones who are now 80 years old and over, are departing this world. Now that the word \u201cnarrative\u201d is becoming more prevalent...<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/OHcO7rMhDBU\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.12.2014<\/time>Arutz Sheva<h2>Israel\u2019s Founding Through Eyes of People Who Lived It<\/h2>Yoni Kempinski and Tova Dvorin<div class=\"text\"><p><span id=\"IL_AD4\" class=\"IL_AD\">Landmark film series documents the history of the founding of the State of Israel - from the people who were there to see history happen...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/News\/News.aspx\/180542\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.09.2014<\/time>New Jersey Jewish Standard<h2>Telling Israel's Story<\/h2>Abigail Klein Leichman <div class=\"text\"><p>On the eve of Israel\u2019s 66th Independence Day, the Toldot Yisrael Video Project announced a new partnership with the National Library of Israel...<a href=\"http:\/\/jstandard.com\/content\/item\/telling_israels_story\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.08.2014<\/time>BBC<h2>Israel: Testimonies on founding of the state go online<\/h2>By News from Elsewhere...<div class=\"text\"><p>A set of video interviews with people who lived through the founding of Israel in 1948 has gone online as part of a project to build a national archive... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-27323035\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.08.2014<\/time>Arieh O\u2019Sullivan<h2>Toldot Yisrael Collects Testimonies of 1948 Fighters<\/h2>IBA News<div class=\"text\"><p>Six decades after the bloody battles of the Independence War, efforts are being made to record the testimonies of the shrinking ranks of eyewitnesses...<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/YrSdIkt8fYM\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.06.2014<\/time>CBN News<h2>Project Chronicles Memories of Israel's Founding<\/h2>Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell<div class=\"text\"><p>Although Israel has existed for thousands of years, as a country it is still very young. In fact, the Jewish state celebrates the 66th anniversary of its founding Tuesday. Meanwhile, a unique project is underway...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/insideisrael\/2014\/May\/Documentary-Chronicles-Memories-of-Israels-Founding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.05.2014<\/time>United with Israel<h2>Eyewitness 1948: Fighting for the Jewish State<\/h2>Atara Beck<div class=\"text\"><p>Inspired by renowned filmmaker Steven Spielberg\u2019s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History project, American-born Eric Halivni left his day job seven years ago to begin documenting stories of eyewitnesses to the founding of the State of Israel...<a href=\"http:\/\/unitedwithisrael.org\/eyewitness-1948-fighting-for-the-jewish-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.05.2014<\/time>The Times of Israel<h2>The Last of the Founding Generation, Captured on Film<\/h2>Mitch Ginsburg<div class=\"text\"><p>Lt. Elad Peled, 20, set out with 35 men, on foot, at three in the morning, to take the city of Safed in the spring of 1948. The story of how he managed to prevail...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/the-last-of-the-founding-generation-captured-on-film\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media ----------\"><time>04.30.2014<\/time>Jerusalem Post<h2>New project digitally archives testimonies of hundreds of 1948 veterans<\/h2>Lidar Grav\u00e9-Lazi<div class=\"text\"><p>Project marks the first comprehensive digital project recording the history of the State of Israel into one national archive... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/National-News\/New-project-digitally-archives-testimonies-of-hundreds-of-1948-veterans-350923\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.30.2014<\/time>The Media Line<h2>New Archive Documents Events Surrounding 1948<\/h2>Linda Gradstein<div class=\"text\"><p>By age 20, Elad Peled was a senior commander in the Palmach, one of the branches of Israel\u2019s pre-state army. He was wounded during the fighting, and was taken to the hospital....<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themedialine.org\/news\/print_news_detail.asp?NewsID=39932\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.30.2014<\/time>TLV1<h2>Where Were You in 1948?<\/h2>Gilad Halpern<div class=\"text\"><p>A new project seeks to record eyewitness video testimonies from Israel\u2019s founding generation...<a href=\"http:\/\/tlv1.fm\/so-much-to-say\/2014\/04\/30\/where-were-you-in-1948\/\" target=\"_blank\">Listen<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.30.2014<\/time>JNS<h2>Preserving the Memories of Israel\u2019s Creation <\/h2>Judy Lash Balint<div class=\"text\"><p>Elad Peled, 87, has told the story of how he was injured during the battle for Tzfat (Safed) in Israel\u2019s War of Independence many times. Now, for the first time...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jns.org\/latest-articles\/2014\/4\/30\/preserving-the-memories-of-israels-creation\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>03.13.2013<\/time>The New York Jewish Week<h2>New and authentic films will counter Israel's negative image<\/h2>Gary Rosenblatt<div class=\"text\"><p>...For the last five years Eric Halivni (formerly Weisberg) has been working on an ambitious effort to document on film firsthand accounts of the birth of the State of Israel, bringing a generation\u2019s quiet heroism to life... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/editorial-opinion\/gary-rosenblatt\/more-balanced-picture\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>01.10.2013<\/time>Ofer Aderet<h2>Toldot Yisrael Project on 1948 Generation in Race Against Time<\/h2>Haaretz<div class=\"text\"><p>Last week Peleg Levy put 17 hard drives into a large bag, got into a taxi and headed to Jerusalem. On a note he attached to the bag he wrote: \"If something happens to me on the way...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/features\/toldot-yisrael-project-on-1948-generation-in-race-against-time.premium-1.493212\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>06.13.2012<\/time>Maariv<h2>A History of Documentation<\/h2>Amihai Attali<div class=\"text\"><p>Eric Weisberg decided to give up his comfortable home in the United States and make aliya. After changing his name to Aryeh Halivni, he established a project to document the 1948 Generation...<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/toldotyisrael\/docs\/a_history_of_documentation\" target=\"_blank\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>02.13.2012<\/time>The Jerusalem Report<h2>Ordinary Heroes - Sung and Unsung<\/h2>Bernard Dichek<div class=\"text\"><p>With what words did Abba Eban express himself, after leading the successful UN vote in New York on November 29, 1947 for partitioning Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state?...<a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/toldotyisrael\/docs\/toldot_yisrael_in_jerusalem_report__february_2012\" target=\"_blank\">View PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>05.03.2011<\/time>JTA<h2>Oral Histories from 1948 Tell Firsthand Stories of Israel\u2019s Founding<\/h2>Dina Kraft<div class=\"text\"><p>Ruth Farhi\u2019s eyes cloud with tears and her gaze turns from the camera recording her story as she tells of a memorable January night in 1948 that haunts her to this day...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jta.org\/2011\/05\/09\/news-opinion\/israel-middle-east\/oral-histories-from-1948-tell-firsthand-stories-of-israels-founding\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.27.2011<\/time>The New York Jewish Week<h2>A Chronicle Of Pioneers<\/h2>Michele Chabin<div class=\"text\"><p>Ruth Stern could have lived a life of privilege and security in her native South Africa. Instead, in 1946, at the age of 17, she and two dozen other South Africa...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/news\/israel\/chronicle_pioneers\" target=\"_blank\">more <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.20.2011<\/time>The Forward<h2>A Living Lens: Memories From Israel\u2019s Founding<\/h2>Nathan Jeffay<div class=\"text\"><p>It was November 29, 1947, and the United Nations was about to vote on the resolution that paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel... <a href=\"http:\/\/forward.com\/articles\/137170\/a-living-lens\/\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.04.2010<\/time>IBA News<h2>Toldot Yisrael on IBA Closeup<\/h2>Elli Wohlgelernter <div class=\"text\"><p>What happens to the memories of the thousands of others who participated in the formation of the State of Israel? To the rescue is an organization called Toldot Yisrael...<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/gs9AE_rS2VQ\" target=\"_blank\">Watch video<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>06.04.2009<\/time>Jerusalem Post<h2>In Perspective: Protecting the Zionist Narrative at Last<\/h2>Daniel Gordis<div class=\"text\"><p>Imagine that Germany, embittered by incessant reminders of what happened during the Holocaust, passed a law forbidding German Jews from publicly marking...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Opinion\/Columnists\/In-Perspective-Protecting-the-Zionist-narrative-at-last\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>06.04.2009<\/time>Yossi Melman<h2>Spielberg of the underground<\/h2>Haaretz<div class=\"text\"><p>Aryeh Halivni dreams of becoming Steven Spielberg. Actually, the young American-born Orthodox man, who immigrated to Israel a few years ago, has no pretensions...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/weekend\/week-s-end\/spielberg-of-the-underground-1.296346\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media ----------\"><time>05.18.2009<\/time>New York Times<h2>On Fiery Birth of Israel, Memories of 2 Sides Speak<\/h2>Dina Kraft<div class=\"text\"><p>In a high-rise apartment with a Mediterranean Sea view, the cameraman checks his frame and the interviewer makes sure the slight, silver-haired man is relaxed enough to tell his story. Then Peleg Tamir, 81, starts recounting his days as a teenage recruit for an underground militia fighting for the Jewish state ... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18israel.html\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>10.24.2008<\/time>Cleveland Jewish News<h2>Seeking firsthand memories from those present at Israel\u2019s founding<\/h2>Cynthia Dettelbach<div class=\"text\"><p><span class=\"first-paragraph\"><span class=\"paragraph-0\">What Steven Spielberg did for Holocaust survivors, Aryeh Halivni (Weisberg) hopes to do for the men and women who helped found the state of Israel. Halivni, born<\/span><\/span>...<a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevelandjewishnews.com\/archives\/article_a86b469e-7976-55b4-a260-e450f8bfb2ba.html\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article><article class=\"media en\"><time>04.23.2008<\/time>The New York Jewish Week<h2>Preserving The Memories Of 1948<\/h2>Gary Rosenblatt<div class=\"text\"><p>Thanks to Steven Spielberg and others, visual testimony of the Shoah has been recorded for posterity, with footage of more than 50,000 survivor interviews housed under... <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejewishweek.com\/editorial_opinion\/gary_rosenblatt\/preserving_memories_1948\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a><!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81,"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toldotyisrael.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}