Where we were, what we felt, in 1967: Four Denverites remember
Chris LeppekMay 18, 2017Jerusalem 50, Special Sections0
The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967. Clara Elefant My husband had a sabbatical coming in 1962 so we went to Israel for a year. We liked it so much that we stayed another year and that second year turned into 18 years for me and 20 years for him. I was there until 1979. He was teaching at Bar Ilan University. We lived in Kiryat HaYovel in Jerusalem. A couple of weeks before the Six Day War, on the highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, we saw tanks and other war machines hidden behind trees and structures, I guess getting ready for the war. It was very concerning to us but that was the […]