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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

Six Day War

A couch sits at a heavily damaged building along Saftawi street in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip on February 5, 2025. (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
February 5, 2025, 9:18 pm
Trump’s call for US ‘ownership’ of Gaza draws attention to Strip’s tumultuous history
Enclave’s recent past has been marked by conflict, from Egyptian military rule to IDF capture, the Oslo Accords to Hamas coup that ejected PA, the October 7 attack and subsequent war
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Author Haim Be'er at his home in Ramat Gan, October 6, 2024. (Tamar Mor Sela)
October 20, 2024, 7:05 am
Haim Be’er believes, in perfect faith, that change is coming for Israel, but it may tarry
Despite eulogizing Zionism, the 79-year-old literary icon urges public to transcend social divides between right and left, religious and secular, and acknowledge limitations of power
By Tamar Mor Sela
Then-IDF Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yeshayahu 'Shaike' Gavish seen on June 13, 1967. (CC BY-SA, GPO via Wikipedia)
October 3, 2024, 5:57 pm
Yeshayahu Gavish, Six Day War general who captured the Sinai, dies at 99
Known as ‘Shaike,’ Palmach alum was last living senior commander from 1967 war, where he led massive Sinai battle; felt Paratroopers ‘stole the show’ with conquest of Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
'Jerusalem on Earth' by Abraham Rabinovich (Courtesy)
September 23, 2024, 2:52 am
Rediscovering Jerusalem: Journalist releases new edition of Six Day War-era book
Abraham Rabinovich’s updated book offers new insights and photographs, capturing Jerusalem’s transformation and enduring tensions since 1967
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Identification document of Fawzi Muhammad Abdel Mawla, located along with the 22-year-old soldier's remains in the Sinai Peninsula, where he is thought to have been killed in June 1967, when the Egyptian army retreated westward on the third day of the Six Day War. (Sinai Foundation for Human Rights)
July 7, 2024, 9:44 am
Remains of Egyptian soldier missing since 1967 Six Day War found in Sinai
Human rights group urges Egyptian public and government to help locate family of 22-year-old Fawzi Muhammad Abdel Mawla, likely killed in retreat from Sinai on war’s 3rd day
By ToI Staff
The iconic Rubinger photo of three paratroopers standing at the recaptured Western Wall in June 1967. From left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri (David Rubinger/GPO)
July 6, 2024, 7:20 pm
Yitzhak Yifat, paratrooper at center of iconic Six Day War photo, dies at 81
Immortalized at newly captured Western Wall, Yifat and fellow soldiers Zion Karasenti and Haim Oshri became powerful symbol of one of most significant moments in Israeli history
By ToI Staff
The iconic Rubinger photo of three paratroopers standing at the recaptured Western Wall in June 1967. From left: Tzion Karasenti, Yitzhak Yifat and Chaim Oshri (David Rubinger/GPO)
February 11, 2024, 7:57 pm
Solomonic ruling: 2 paratroopers can claim single spot in iconic Six Day War image
The leftmost soldier in the 1967 photo of paratroopers at the Western Wall has been identified as both Zion Karasenti and Abraham Bornstein; a Tel Aviv court upholds both claims
By Jeremy Sharon
Israeli premier Golda Meir, during a press conference at the Israeli embassy in Rome, Italy, on January 15, 1973. (AP Photo/ Giuseppe Anastasi)
July 31, 2023, 10:56 pm
Declassified protocols indicate Golda Meir considered Palestinian statehood
Documents show that former prime minister gave serious thought to possibility of formation of a Palestinian entity, despite public comments
By ToI Staff
In this June 8, 1967 file photo a man lends prayer shawls and phylacteries to Israeli soldiers praying at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, one day after its capture from the Jordanians during the Six-Day War. (AP Photo, File)
May 16, 2023, 8:29 am
Upcoming movie ‘Jerusalem 67’ to chronicle Six Day War
‘Jane the Virgin’ actress Yael Grobglas reportedly in advanced talks to star in film to be directed by Oded Raz, set to shoot in Israel from August
By Gabe Friedman
File: View of the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank on July 2, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
January 25, 2023, 11:44 am
Knesset passes settler law bill, months after legislation felled previous coalition
Right-wing MKs now lead push to renew extension of civil and criminal law to settlers; their opposition to it on political grounds in previous Knesset led to government’s collapse
By Jeremy Sharon
This combination of photos shows Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) at a press conference in Tel Aviv on November 29, 2022, and Noam MK Avi Maoz arriving for coalition talks at Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 8, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90, Flash90)
December 1, 2022, 5:54 pm
Gantz rips far-right party for calling Egyptians killed in 1967 war ‘enemy soldiers’
Outgoing defense chief accuses Noam of ‘attempt to paint Egypt as an enemy’ after one-MK party denounced potential memorial for Egyptian commandos
By ToI Staff
A peace dove sits on the head of former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on Monday, June 15, 1992 as he sets another bird free during a leisure trip on the Sea of Gallilee, Israel. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
August 31, 2022, 3:25 pm
Israeli leaders eulogize ‘brave’ and ‘visionary’ Gorbachev
Leaders across West remember Soviet Union’s last head as pioneer who ended the Cold War; Putin offers ‘condolences’ but limited praise
By Ash Obel and Agencies
Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 8:20 pm
Fighting rabbinic ban, Jewish activists push Temple Mount prayer toward mainstream
How a group of determined activists has been reinterpreting Jewish law, shifting public discourse and challenging the status quo at one of the most contentious places on Earth
By Judah Ari Gross
An officer holds an AK-type rifle that was found in the Sea of Galilee, May 28, 2022, (Screenshot: Ynet)
May 28, 2022, 4:35 pm
Fisherman hooks a rifle likely used by Syrian soldier in 1967 war
Tiberias fisherman finds Kalashnikov in Sea of Galilee apparently lost over half a century ago
By ToI Staff
A crowd of Jewish-Americans hold a rally in support of Israel near the White House, in Washington, D.C., June 8, 1967. (AP)
May 24, 2022, 10:47 am
What Americans don’t talk about when they talk about Israel
A conversation with historian Eric Alterman, whose new book explores critical tension at the heart of US Jewish discourse on Israel and what is missed by debate without listening
By Tal Schneider
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