JERUSALEM (JTA) – David Rubinger’s iconic photograph of three paratroopers at the Western Wall is the defining image of the 1967 Six-Day War. The men in the photo — Dr. Yitzhak Yifat ...
Israel was forged in, and defined by, war. Each armed conflict, large and small, left its mark. But it is the shortest, the Six Day War of June 1967, that seems to resonate more than all the others.
The outbreak of war on 5 June 1967 would change many lives ... "That was a miracle," he says, recalling Israel's victory in six days. Yoel Ben Nun told his commander at the time that he felt ...
REPORTER: The war was over in six days. By its conclusion, Israel's armed forces had more than quadrupled the territory their country controlled. The war also provoked another exodus of ...
Overall the delicate balance of power was preserved, but each outbreak of hostilities, like the 1967 Six Day War, brought with it the danger that the superpowers would be drawn into armed conflict.
6 Days in Ukraine: The War on Hockey' chronicles W. Graeme Roustan’s tour of Ukraine, which has seen hockey rink facilities damaged or destroyed during the ongoing war with Russia. 6 Days in ...
Or is the iron grasp of history and the reality that while surprise attacks such as these succeed at first — and at first is critical — fail except for the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War?