Journalist Michael Greenspan (CNN) meets with Yom Kippur War tank commander David Yaniv, who recalls how he and his men were miraculously saved when a mysterious wind exposed thousands of explosives in the minefield in which they were stranded.
Michael Greenspan continues his quest to investigate the circumstances surrounding Israeli's supposed miracles: an assignment from his publication that has sent him to Jerusalem for sightseeing and interviews.
Michael Greenspan meets 85-year-old Shula Cohen who became a spy for Israel in 1948 in Beirut, where her access to Lebanese and Syrian social circles gave her unprecedented access to vital intelligence information.
Michael Greenspan visits the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum outside Jerusalem and reflects on the history of one of the most devastating historical events. Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel is featured.
This episode dramatizes the story of Ezra Yakhin who joined freedom fighters resisting the British occupation of Palestine, and it also chronicles the obstacles that stood in the way of the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the years before 1948.
In this stirring episode, Michael Greenspan interviews freedom fighters and war veterans who recount Israel's triumph against all odds in its' war for independence from the British and the Arab enemies determined to destroy the new homeland.
Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day War was certainly against all odds. This episode contains dramatizations of stories associated with the return of Jerusalem to Jewish hands for the first time since its fall to the Romans in 70 A.D.
The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was the ultimate David and Goliath story. Avigdor Kahalani, one of Israel's most decorated and beloved war heroes, shares his own incredible stories of survival and miraculous victory.
Israeli citizens share their knowledge about what it means to live in the land of their forefathers. Rabbi Israel Lau describes the sense of coming home with his story of survival of the Holocaust, and Russian Jews reflect on their escape from Communism.
Michael Greenspan sets out to interview "average" Israelis, picking their minds on what constitutes a miracle, their firsthand experience with miracles, and if miracles themselves are an intrinsic part of Israel's history.
Flaming swords; storks devouring locusts; Michael talks with people connected to miraculous events.
Greenspan focuses the bulk of this latest installment on one very special and unique miracle, one which the whole world was able to watch and experience in real time: Operation Entebbe.
Michael Greenspan reflects on the incredible people he has met, and their stories that he has heard. Before returning to the U.S., he visits a synagogue for the first time since he was a boy, and draws his final conclusion about miracles in Israel.
