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The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories

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Jewish and Palestinian families explore the impact of the founding of the state of Israel.

Personal, profound and deeply moving. Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha explore how their family's histories, and others, were changed forever by the 1948 founding of the state of Israel.

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Sarah Agha

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Rob and Sarah are joined by two women trying to find out what happened to their families.

Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why her aunts left for the new state of Israel and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as they struggled to keep their land.

This powerful two-part series follows co-presenters Rob Rinder and Sarah Agha, along with four other families of Jewish and Palestinian heritage, as they explore how their families’ histories were impacted by the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. For Jews across the world this represented a longed-for opportunity to find a place of safety. For Palestinians the events of this period, which created over 700,000 refugees, are
known as the Nakba, Arabic for the Catastrophe. Through these profoundly moving and deeply personal stories, this series gets to the heart of what happened to people on both sides, as the Middle East was reshaped.

As the presenters and participants investigate how this time of chaos and upheaval affected their relatives, they discover how their families’
destinies were changed forever. Sarah Agha finds out about the circumstances under which her family fled their village in Galilee in 1948, and Rob follows his relative’s journey to escape the horrors of the Holocaust and start a new life in the recently established state of Israel.

In this episode Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why, when she was a child, her aunts left Egypt for the new state of
Israel and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as her grandfather struggled to hold on to his land and orange groves in
Jaffa.

The Holy Land and Us - Our Untold Stories: Series 1

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