NO one in the world knows, save a few pilots, Israel’s very top military brass, its prime minister and a few other ministers. No one in Israel knows, no one outside Israel knows. The Jewish people is shuddering in fear. The Psalms flow in anguish and abundance around the world.

Also: imagine this pre-cell phone, pre-email world. This is 1967. June 5, 1967, to be exact, the day of the beginning of the Six Day War. Nobody has the instant scoop.

The beginning was the destruction of the entire Egyptian Air Force in a surprise Israeli attack, the Israeli planes flying so close to the ground that people on the ground could discern the Jewish stars on the bottom of the planes.

This will be a short but intense, costly and difficult war. Successes are not to be disseminated. News blackout is the word.

DID a chasidic Ashkenazi school in the town of Emmanuel, Israel  bar Sephardi students? Based on some of the reporting and on the Internet banter on the question, one could come to this open-and-shut conclusion:

The discrimination in the chasidic school in Emmanuel is so pronounced that when ordered to accept Sephardi girls by the High Court of Israel (its Supreme Court), the Ashkenazi parents decided to withdraw their children, make their own school (and make it exclusively Ashkenazi) — and then erect a wall between their school and the other school, which, under court order, accepts Sephardi girls.

If this were not enough, the Ashkenazi parents, defying Israel’s High Court, said they would and must listen to their rabbis instead.