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 ...
The Six-Day War intensified American Jews’ love for ... Klein Halevi remembers his doctor decorating his waiting room with an enormous photo of Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan.
King David and Maccabees… scatter him [the enemy] throughout the desert…" It was the official Israeli declaration of war, but I will debunk its version of events – which have long shaped Western ...
“In June 1967,” Bret Stephens writes in the New York Times for the 50th anniversary of the Six Day War, “Arab leaders declared their intention to annihilate the Jewish state and the Jews decided they ...
Calev Ben-Dor: Can you share some memories from the period surrounding the 1967 Six-Day War? Yossi Klein Halevi: My most primal memory was in the latter part of May 1967, watching the news with my ...
and so appears to make the side carrying out the strike the aggressor it is usually carried out before a formal declaration of war One example is the Six Day War of 1967. Israel was the first to ...
In June 1967, following a series of maneuvers by Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, Israel preemptively attacked Egyptian and Syrian air forces, starting the Six-Day War. After the war ...