Six-day war

Yohanan Elishuv, last surviving fighter who raised Eilat's Ink Flag in 1948, dies at 95

During the first truce in June 1948, Elishuv was transferred to the southern front under Uzi Narkiss. He was wounded after driving over a mine, but returned to combat after recovering.

Yohanan Elishuv during the War of Independance.
Palestinian women walk past a mural of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Hebron on the 21st anniversary of Arafat’s death. Ruth Wasserman Lande argues that the Palestinian narrative was created by the Soviet Union.

Middle Israel: How Jews and Palestinians became masters of historical denial

Simcha Applebaum serving as deputy commander within the 188th Brigade.

Holocaust survivor, Yom Kippur War hero Colonel Simcha Applebaum dies at 99

Herzl Budinger, Architect of Israel’s Air Power in Lebanon

Herzl Budinger, architect of Israel’s air power in Lebanon, passes away at 82


Back to Ammunition Hill

Paul Alster joins the paratroopers of Battalion 66, who took part in one of the bloodiest battles of the Six Day War, and hears how the decision to take the Old City was made.

Soldiers of the 55th Paratrooper Brigade pause from training for a photo at Beit Guvrin in 1965

Jerusalem, the Six Day War and more

‘The Six Day War is just one of many things that occurred that year’

A soldier at the Western Wall during the Six Day War

Six Day War was more than just military power

IDF commanders became my generation’s heroes, but the victory was not only a military one.

ISRAEL AIR FORCE Mirage fighter jets train over Israel in 1967 before the Six Day War.

The 50-year-old, ever-changing status quo

IDF Paratroopers relax after liberating the Western Wall during the Six Day War

Fifty years on: Anti-Israel or antisemitic?

Israelis visit the Western Wall in 1967 after its opening to the public following the Six Day War

Parting Shot: June 1967 – A month in the life

Rock & roll didn’t save the world, as I thought it might as a teenager.

THE BEATLES competed for attention with the Six Day War and the Boston Red Sox in June 1967

What a difference 50 years can make

The world in the spring of 1967 was very different than the world as it is today.

Israeli troops near Rafah during the Six Day War

Continued rule over the Palestinians endangers Israel’s future

Many Jews face the fiftieth anniversary of the Six Day War with ambivalence.

SOLDIERS TUSSLE with Palestinians in the West Bank village of Beita

Was the Six Day War fought in part over Israel’s nuclear program?

“I am trying to show what might be an alternative narrative to what led to that war, or to combine the two narratives together. This is the last big secret.”

Israeli troops near Rafah during the Six Day War

UN chief denounces '50 years of Israeli occupation' on Six Day War anniversary

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not mince words in his critique of Israel as it marks fifty years since it reunified Jerusalem in the Six Day War.

Antonio Guterres