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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 […]

The IJN solicited verbal postcards from Denverites who lived through the Six Day War, June 5-10, 1967.  Crisp, animated memories range from white-knuckle fear that the Arabs would destroy Israel to unwavering confidence in her victorious destiny. Rosetta Steinberg I was terrified...

Israel has changed, but the memories of 1967 have not. At least not if you served in that decisive war. The politics have colored the intervening years. Was this war, imposed on Israel, the blessing that it seemed to be at...

It didn’t seem particularly unusual at the time. It just seemed like a workable — and free — living arrangement. But in May-June, 1968, I was one of only two Jews living in the former Jewish Quarter of the Old...