Simon Plosker

As I recall I was in my mid-teens in 1967 and it seemed to me

Rabbi Shmuel Jakobovits remembers… – Rabbi Jakobovits is the son of the late former Chief

Before “The British volunteers who played their part in the war were never officially acknowledged.

IRAQ The defeat of the Arabs by Israel in the war of 1967 led to

At the time I was working in the next best place to Israel – the

I had become worried about the potential conflict several weeks before the war. I was

In March 1967 I was visited at Maccabi, Compayne Gardens, where I was the Sports

SYRIA Following the 1967 Six-Day War, according to some sources, 57 Qamishli Jews were alleged

I was born after World War Two and as a youngster was fortunate enough not

I left school the summer of ’67 and went to Israel on the WUJS [1]

Prior to the war breaking out I was studying Dentistry at Manchester University. We knew

LIBYA – Gina Bublil Waldman’s story “Tripoli, Libya, was ablaze for weeks after the start

The Six-Day War – That was when I realized that being Jewish was an exceptionally

… Studying at the London School of Economics when the war broke out, I called

Looking back to 1967 when I was 19 years old, I cannot believe how little

LIBYA – Raphael Luzon’s story “In 1967, at age 13, I barely escaped with my

I had returned to London with my young family a few months before the war

I was working at the volunteer center in Manchester, UK, at that time, and was