“It’s not a war movie in the conventional sense, one that deals with fighting forces and commanders. Instead, it places the war in a film about people - about people living in a city. Very, very ...

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 ...

It is known in Arabic simply as Naksa, or Setback. Israel's defeat of the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan in six short days in 1967 was such a devastating blow to Arab pride and morale that Arabic ...

Six days later, Israel had defeated the armies of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and had captured territories that made the nation three times larger than it was when the war began. Social scientist Shibley ...

During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel achieved stunning military success against what seemed to be formidable adversaries. Yet Israel didn’t translate its military success into active diplomacy; if ...