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55th Anniversary: The Six Day War

The following is a compilation of special content that The Jerusalem Post and The Jerusalem Post Magazine released in recognition of the 55th anniversary of the Six Day War.

1967 to 2022: Ending 55 years of ‘temporary’ drift and chaos

Unlike Oslo and the other experiments, we should start from the end point – Israel’s urgent need to determine our borders.

|ByGERALD M. STEINBERG
NEW STRATEGY long overdue: Palestinians clash with IDF forces near Joseph’s Tomb, in Nablus, April 13.
DREARY DAYS: In the east Jerusalem neighborhood Sheikh Jarrah, February 27.

Six Day War: Palestinians gloomy but hold out hope 55 years later

'The lesson from the 1967 war: We must teach our children not what we learned from our grandparents'

|ByKHALED ABU TOAMEH
IN 2017, the three men in the iconic 1967 photo of three paratroopers that came to symbolize the reunification of Jerusalem, reprise their original positions at the Western Wall. (From left) Haim Oshri, Yitzhak Yifat and Zion Karasent.

Six Day War: IDF troops became an unwitting symbol of unified Jerusalem

The photograph appeared throughout the country – in newspapers, on posters and later in books about the war. Yifat suddenly had become more than a soldier who participated in an extraordinary event.

|ByFERN ALLEN
GOLDA MEIR on the dais at the Mapai-Labor Party conference with (from L) Zalman Shazar, David Ben-Gurion and Giora Yoseftal, Tel Aviv, 1959.

Six Day War: What's left of Israel's Left, 55 years later?

The Six Day War that initially led the Labor Party to its biggest victory ever, actually caused its demise.

|ByAMOTZ ASA-EL

Six Day War: Israel’s Left is alive and kicking, 55 years later

Topics such as gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights and the Arab community have moved into the first few slots, whereas topics like ending the occupation and achieving peace have become less of a priority.

JUNE 10, 2022ByYARIV OPPENHEIMER
IN THE 1980s, over 400,000 Israelis protested against the Lebanon War: IDF soldiers who returned from fighting in the First Lebanon War demonstrate in front of prime minister Menachem Begin’s residence in Jerusalem, 1983.

Six Day War: Israel's victory marred by indecision over what comes next

The day after the Six Day War, Israel lacked a grand strategy for the lands that had fallen under its control.

JUNE 10, 2022ByHERB KEINON
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Levi Eshkol (C), minister Menachem Begin (L) and Gen. Yeshayahu Gavish (R) visit reserve units in Sinai, June 13, 1967.