Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of the 1967 War, also known as the Six-Day War, in which Israel preempted an attack from four neighboring Arab states and captured the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights and the…
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Opinion Crisis Of Confidence: Can The Arab World Recover From The Six Day War?
As we approach the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, the primary impulse for Israel and Arabs alike — to try to assign blame primarily to the other side — is also the least interesting and useful response, suggesting that many have learned nothing in the intervening decades. Instead, we should honestly evaluate the…
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Opinion Should We Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Six Day War — Or Despair?
Although I was a young girl when the Six Day War broke out, I clearly remember the 5th of June, 1967. I had no personal connection to the war. Our family had no relatives or close friends in Israel at the time; the country was as abstract as the map on my Hebrew school classroom…
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Fast Forward Under 50’s Think West Bank Is Part Of Israel
A growing number of Israelis believe that the settlements are part of sovereign Israel, according to a new poll published in Fathom, a UK journal on Israel. A public opinion poll conducted between October and November 2016 asked 1,027 Israeli Jews whether Israel had declared sovereignty over the West Bank (it hasn’t). The survey is…
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Israel News How The Forverts Covered The Six Day War
Fifty years ago, the Six Day War was front page news on the Yiddish Forverts, which kept its readers abreast of developments mainly by reprinting wire service reports from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declaring Israel’s “huge victories” as the war progressed. With limited resources on the ground in Israel, the newspaper relied on its correspondent,…
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Israel News Forverts In 1967: Leaders Of The Heroic Israeli Army
The following is a translation by Chana Pollack of the Yiddish Forverts’ 1967 coverage of the Six Day War: Let’s open the door, for our readers, and permit them to peek inside the rooms of the Israeli Army Staff. The Israeli general-staff of 15 ‘alufim’ (ranks ranging from Colonel up to General) is doubtless the…
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Opinion How Hadassah Hospital Coped With Casualties During The Six Day War
In 1967, Hadassah Hospital in Ein Kerem, Israel found itself at the front line of the Six-Day War, treating swells of wounded soldiers and civilians. The July 1967 edition of Hadassah Magazine included a harrowing account, excerpted below, of the first 60 “desperate and magnificent” hours at the burdened medical center. “I entered my office…
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Breaking News David Rubinger, Whose Iconic Images Etched Israel’s History, Is Dead At 92
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David Rubinger, the Israeli photographer who took the iconic photo of Israeli paratroopers standing in front of the Western Wall after its capture in the Six-Day War, has died. Rubinger, whose photos chronicled much of the history of the Jewish state, died Thursday. He was 92. Rubinger was awarded the Israel Prize…
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Fast Forward David Rubinger, Who Took Iconic Western Wall Photo, Dies At 92
David Rubinger, the Israeli photographer who snapped the iconic photograph of soldiers at the Western Wall in 1967, died on Thursday at the age of 92. The photograph has come to symbolize both the military and spiritual significance of Israel’s victory in the 1967 Six Day War against Egypt, Jordan and Syria. But Rubinger apparently…
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