About the project · 2011 — 2026
Closing a circle,
fifteen years on
How a Flash graduation project became a radio that broadcasts seventy-eight years of history.
2011The graduation project, in Flash
2026Today
Drag the needle: the same year, 1948, then and now.
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2011
A graduation project at Sapir
In 2011 I finished my studies in the Interactive Communication track at Sapir College. My graduation project was “The Zionist Time Machine”: an interactive Flash timeline that told the history of the state, year by year.
I wanted Israel's history to feel less like a burden for the younger generation, and more like a journey.
From the original version, 2011 -
Years in a folder
Flash died
Browsers stopped running Flash, and the project sat for years in a folder on my computer.
The original closing screen -
2026
Rebuilt
Fifteen years later I decided to close the circle. I rebuilt it for today's browsers, with real archival photos, original radio recordings, narration and a song for every year.
All so that the story is open to teenagers, and to anyone who wants to know what the country went through from the day it was founded until it became what it is today.
The site's opening screen, today
Eliran Sagie
Creator of the project
Interactive Communication graduate, Sapir College
Why now?
Because especially at a time when our people are divided, it matters to remember the road we travelled together.
Seventy-eight years of rebirth, wars, immigration, loss, songs and hope. This history belongs to all of us.