Simon Plosker

It was a pleasant, clear morning. The sort of morning when a man gets up

In the days before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, Yoske “Balagan” Schwartz was practicing

By the end of May, ordinary life – as we had known it in the

The school year of 1966-1967 I spent, as a third year university student, in Israel

“We filled every available receptacle with water, because June is quite a hot month and

In May 1967 I was working in Haifa as an au pair, looking after three

Sol Stern tells of his experiences of covering the Six-Day War as Israel correspondent of

Children played their part in keeping everyday life going during the emergency. When the postmen

“It was the morning of the second day of the war in Jerusalem. The horizon

Rona Hart had been in Israel for only a few weeks when war-clouds started to gather.

I remember sleeping on the floor, in my clothes, thinking there would be bound to

In the early morning hours of Monday, June 5, 1967, the sun was already heating

Remembering Shavuot [1] 1967 “I remember when I first went to the Kotel [2], that

The battle started. All my friends were being shot. My commander was shot. A shell

“We ran there, a group of panting soldiers, lost on the plaza of the Temple

Click on any link below for that person’s more detailed account The lead up… Winston

I was Third Officer on a British Merchant ship when we were in the last