When There Was a Hole in the Groschen

Pinhas Sapir tries to put the young state's economy on track for development and growth, but failed nationalization, economic crisis and struggles with the Histadrut make the task particularly difficult. Reparations money saves the economy, but also raises a dilemma for Sapir: how to end the dependence of the young state's citizens on government allowances and subsidiesSee omnystudio.com/listener...

The Sapir Method, Part 3. Pinhas Sapir takes upon himself the task of providing for the livelihood of the development towns, but the path to this goal passes through confrontations with the Governor of the Bank of Israel, heavy losses of the factories, and corruption scandals that threaten to break the system he finally managed to developSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Pri...

Fourth episode in the series where Pinhas Sapir reaches the peak of his political power, but then the problems begin. He chooses a partner who will complicate him in events that will dismantle his political power, enters the position of Finance Minister at a time when money is running out from the state treasury, forcing him to initiate a recession that complicates him and undermines the authority...

The Sapir Method, fifth and final chapter. Final episode in the story about the man and the method. Corruption scandals, economic crises, the Yom Kippur War and personal life tragedies - these are the events that unfortunately constitute the closing chord in the story of Pinhas Sapir. The method he chose to advance the Israeli economy indeed brought growth and development, but also created serious...

Arms shipments from Czechoslovakia begin arriving in Israel parallel to the outbreak of fighting in the War of Independence, but will the weapons reach the fighters in time? How will the young IDF cope with the tanks and planes of Arab armies? How will the state deal with the heavy budgetary burden of war expenses? Will American Jews succeed in smuggling an aircraft carrier from America to Israel?...

One day after the Declaration of Independence, the invasion of the regular armies of Arab states began. The Sten guns and mortars of 'Haganah' would not be enough against the planes and tanks of the Egyptian and Syrian armies, but an arms embargo prevents the State of Israel from arming itself to bridge the gap. So how do you obtain weapons in quantity, quality and speed? And who exactly will pay...

Why did all the farmers here grow tobacco a hundred years ago? How did they once make prescription medicine? What happened to the dream of building a port in Nahariya? Where did the Philips factory in Netanya disappear to? And what caused all the bakers in the country to shut down the bakeries during the austerity period? A special episode of 5 short stories about broken dreams in the Israeli econ...

The Fourth Aliyah heralds an unprecedented economic boom in the Jewish settlement and in Tel Aviv, but also a severe economic crisis that threatened to collapse the entire Zionist enterprise. What caused the crisis? And how is the collapse of the Histadrut's 'Solel Boneh' connected to it? A new episode about the first real estate bubble in the history of the new Jewish settlementSee omnystudio.com...