Six-Day War>Recollections

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

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

The Six-Day War began suddenly and ended quickly. What appeared at first to be no

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

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

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

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

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

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