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  • Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and General Yeshayahu Gavish, during the six day war, 1967.
    Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and General Yeshayahu Gavish, during the six day war, 1967.
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    The Secret Transcripts of the Six-Day War, Part I

    The Six-Day War: classified documents unsealed 50 years after the conflict reveal: Jerusalem conquered almost by accident; Israel’s National Religious Party, forerunner to the settler movement, lobbied for military de-escalation at every turn; and nobody in Israel’s security cabinet seems to have seen the country’s most momentous war coming.

    byYaacov Lozowick
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    Remembering Yehuda Avner’s Worst Speech

    One of Israel’s singular storytellers dies at 86

    byYair Rosenberg
  • Prime Minister Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz yesterday.(Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
    Prime Minister Netanyahu and Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz yesterday.(Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
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    Is The New Unity Government Bold or Craven?

    It could be 1967; more ominously, it could be 1984

    byLiel Leibovitz
  • Top: Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan touring the West Bank in September 1967. Bottom: Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz during a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 8, 2012.(Top Israel National Photo Collection; bottom Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
    Top: Levi Eshkol and Moshe Dayan touring the West Bank in September 1967. Bottom: Benjamin Netanyahu and Shaul Mofaz during a joint press conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem on May 8, 2012.(Top Israel National Photo Collection; bottom Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images)
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    1967 All Over Again?

    Israel’s new coalition echoes the unity government that came together on the eve of the Six Day War

    byBenny Morris
  • (Toby Press)
    (Toby Press)
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    Premiership

    A new book gives an insider’s assessment of four Israeli prime ministers—and Menachem Begin the voice he never had

    byLee Smith
  • 1967 protests against the resignation of Egypt’s Gamal Nasser
    1967 protests against the resignation of Egypt’s Gamal Nasser
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    Bomb Proof

    The 1967 Soviet-Egyptian intervention in Israel is a lesson in how not to block a Mideast bomb

    byIsabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
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