In a series of six weekly talks Michael Elkins , who has lived in Israel since 1948 and was BBC
Correspondent there for 17 years, plots his own course through the history of modern Israel. 2: The Ingathering of the Exiles
In the decade that followed the independence of 1948. Israel more than doubled her population.
She brought In Jews from all over the world - from the West, China and India, the mountains of Yemen, and Jewish communities of which no one had ever heard.