Israel Story: Difference between revisions

On July 19, 2013 the Israel Story team released its first episode.<ref name=aliyah2 /> Initially, they hoped to just make a few shows for friends and family to enjoy. They then made a show about "House of Pancakes," a famous 24-hour pancake restaurant in Israel, which went viral and they reached a critical mass of listeners. The show caught the ear of Army Radio station head Yaron Deckel, who decided to give them a regular, Friday afternoon broadcast slot. Each of the first season’s eleven episodes reached an audience of hundreds of thousands of Israelis.<ref name=speilberg>{{cite news|last1=Stern|first1=Itay|title=Why Spielberg Is All Ears for This Israeli Podcast read more: http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.668135|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/.premium-1.668135|accessdate=8 October 2015|agency=Ha'aretz|date=Jul 28, 2015}}</ref> In 2014, Israel Story expanded into English, releasing its first English episode, “[http://en.israelstory.org/episode/faking_it/ Faking It]” on August 18, 2014 in partnership with [[Tablet Magazine]].<ref name=jewishjournal />

 

Four childhood friends who grew up together in the [[Conservative Judaism|Masorti (Conservative)]] youth movement, "No'am", created the show.<ref name=aliyah2 />

 

Steven Spielberg’s [http://www.righteouspersons.org/ Righteous Persons Foundation] offered funding as part of its Media Fund for Coexistence, which supports projects that leverage media and technology to highlight people’s shared humanity.<ref name=jewishjournal />

 

 

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