Posts Tagged: Six Day War
Alienation Inside and Outside of Israel
Every year when Israel's Independence Day comes round, I always experience delight, pride, and sadness. Delight and pride because after two thousand years of exile, of...
Report: Israeli Delegation in Cairo Search for Bodies of 22 Missing Soldiers
Jerusalem Post - An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo early Thursday morning in an attempt to find the remains of 22 soldiers who went missing...
Israel Surrenders the Temple Mount
Since Israel declared independence on May 14, 1948, ending nearly two thousand years of Jewish exile and dispersion, only one other moment has rivaled its...
Tzohar Hosts Yom Kippur Prayer for 55,000 Israelis, Including Prisoners
JNS.org - The national-religious rabbinical organization Tzohar is celebrating the 15th year of its Yom Kippur "Praying Together" "Žprogram by "Žhosting more than 55,000...
Living With War in an Age of Perpetual Conflict
A broad consensus has emerged that Israel's withdrawal from Gaza, and the dismantling of Gush Katif, was a catastrophe that led to three Hamas wars....
Remembering Some History About Jews and Palestinians
The failure of American-mediated peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the likely creation of a Hamas-Fatah government in the Palestinian West Bank...
Why the Left Doesn’t Understand the Arab War Against Israel
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz likes to say that if you are for civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, minority rights, basic freedoms of speech,...
Four Bodyguards Hired for NYC Book Launch Hosted by Israeli War Hero
Raanan Lurie, the legendary Israeli political cartoonist and war hero, was in the gossip pages this week when a book launch party hosted at his...
Deceased Israeli War Hero Meir Har-Tzion Praised: ‘From Bar Kochba Until Har-Tzion No Warrior Came Close’
"Meir Har-Tzion, one of the greatest warriors in Israel's history is gone... from Bar Kochba until Har-Tzion no warrior came close," said Israeli Economy Minister...
BBC Trust Censures Show for Inaccurate Portrayal of Six Day War
The BBC Trust has decided that Dan Snow breached its Editorial Guidelines on accuracy when he implied that Israel had started the Six Day...
Israeli PM Netanyahu Says Lesson of Yom Kippur War is Not to Rule Out Pre-Emptive Strikes
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said one of the lessons Israel has learned is...
The Future of High-Tech Warfare and Israel’s Role Within It
JNS.org - JERUSALEM—As technology grows by leaps and bounds, leading thinkers gathered last week at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference to discuss the future of warfare....
Is the Temple Mount Truly “in Our Hands?”
This past Sunday, I was asked to take part in an organized tour of the Temple Mount, the holiest site in all of Judaism. I...
Why the Six-Day War Still Matters
Forty-five years ago this week, the Israel Defense Forces liberated the Old City of Jerusalem and re-united Israel's capital. Today, most of the...
