On one day in June, the balance of air power in the Middle East was turned upside down by perhaps the most ruthlessly effective air superiority campaign in history - Operation Moked, or Focus. In 1967 ...
Early summer in Israel is more than the beach and matriculation exams. It is also a recurring period of preemptive clarity, decisive action, and fateful military gambits. The Six Day War began in June ...
During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israeli aircraft and naval forces attacked the American intelligence ship USS Liberty, resulting in the deaths of 34 U.S. crew members. While Israel maintained the ...
Not many people today remember the exhilaration so many Americans felt after Israel's victory in the Six-Day War in June 1967. The liberal folks around me at work and law school then had been ...
Levi Eshkol (1895-1969), born Levi Shkolnik in the small Ukrainian town of Oratov, emerged from humble beginnings to become one of Israel’s most consequential, yet least celebrated, leaders. His early ...