Six-day war

Israel must reject territorial expansion after the war - opinion

Israel’s rehabilitation after the war requires us to reject this broader vision and prefer the norm prohibiting territorial conquest.

AN ISRAELI military vehicle crosses through the ceasefire line with Syria on the Golan Heights. One can understand the support for a permanent IDF presence in Gaza, southern Lebanon, and the Syrian Golan even if these areas are not ours, holding them is seen as vital to our security, says the writer
 Wedding rings (Illustrative)

Jewish law tells us IDF soldiers must grant divorce before going to war - opinion

arab gunners in latrun b&w 370

Israel to check reports of Egyptian soldiers mass grave at Sisi's request

A group of paratroopers stands on the Temple Mount after Israel captured the area in the 1967 war.

‘You seek out danger to feel alive,’ Micha Bar-Am says of photographing Israel’s history


Post six-day war footage of Egyptian Monastery made public by Israel's national library

The collection includes texts from as early as the 1100s, written in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Armenian and Georgian and relating to early Christian religion and Church Fathers.

Greek Psalms and Cantica, ca 1504.

Body of Jordanian soldier uncovered in dig of Jerusalem's light rail train

"He waited for us 54 years," Ammunition Hill Director-General Katri Maoz said. "Stationed at his post with all of his equipment, determined to fight."

Ammunition Hill

Is preemptive warfare allowed in Jewish law?

Getting these decisions right can be the difference between triumph and travail.

IDF CHIEF rabbi Shlomo Goren with a wounded soldier, 1969

Fabled Diaspora Yeshiva celebrates milestone

Reminiscing about 50 years of the ‘musical yeshiva,’ a part of the fabric of the Old City.

Singing, dancing and playing guitar at the courtyard on Mount Zion

How three men on a New York floor helped Israel win the Six Day War

He had immediately set the tone. Egypt and Syria were the aggressors, Israel was resisting. And Israel had stood alone – “by its independent effort and sacrifice.”

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

Israel and US Jewry - the proverbial couple

The Six Day War made identification with Israel intrinsic to Diaspora Jewish identity. Fifty years on, are differences over the West Bank changing the relationship?

Pro-Israel demonstrators chant slogans in New York City in 2015. One segment of American Jewry that has drawn closer to Israel these past 50 years is the 10% who are Orthodox

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