1/12 | In the first video of the mini-series, find out about the early steps that led to the 1967 Six Day War – a war that changed the future of Israel. Surrounded by enemy neighbors and only nine miles wide at its narrowest point, Israel was vulnerable. See all the videos as they are released: http://www.sixdaywarproject.org/. In May of 1967, the state of Israel was only 19 years old. At its inception in 1948, five Arab armies had coordinated a military invasion to prevent the creation of the small Jewish country. But Israel’s War of Independence succeeded in repelling the forces bent on Israel’s destruction. Israel reclaimed sovereignty over the ancient Jewish homeland, making way for the establishment of a Jewish country after 2,000 years of statelessness and periods of persecution. Yet despite Israel’s success in creating a new country, it did not enjoy peace with its neighbors. Terrorism and frequent attacks on three borders kept Israel in a perpetual state of alert. To the north, from the Golan Heights, Syria shelled Jewish communities below on a regular basis. In the South and East, Arab terrorists from Egyptian-controlled Gaza and the Jordanian-controlled West Bank infiltrated and perpetrated attacks on Israeli civilians, killing 400 in the 19 years since Israeli independence. The attacks reached the point that they were condemned as “deplorable” by then-Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant. Although the Jewish state had been welcomed into the United Nations and hailed by the international community, its Arab neighbors rejected its very right to exist, preparing to resume a war for Israel’s destruction which they had halted 19 years earlier. The Arab buildup for all-out war was very near. In this video – the first in a 12-part mini-series – you will learn about the regional atmosphere leading up to the 1967 Six Day War, and find out about the early steps that led to the war that changed the future of Israel. Like the Six Day War Project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sixdaywarproject This video was produced by Jerusalem U in partnership with The Jerusalem Post, the Jewish Federations of North America, the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the Jewish National Fund, the Israel Action Network, the European Jewish Congress and the Center for Israel Education. For more on the dramatic events and impact of the Six Day War, visit sixdaywarproject.org. Subtitles in English, Hebrew and Chinese. Thumbnail Photo Credit: Israel GPO/Moshe Milner ———-
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- I am Israel – Yerushalayim Version
- Reflections on Yom Yerushalayim
- Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim) This Week in Jewish History
- Jerusalem Songs Mashup – Elliot Dvorin | Key Tov Orchestra – שירי ירושלים
- Why Did Israel Go To War? | Six Day War Project #1
- PROMO: The Six Day War Project
- Rabbi Sacks on Jerusalem: The 50th Anniversary of Reunification
- Egypt Expels UN Observers | Six Day War Project #2
- Egypt Blockades the Straits of Tiran | Six Day War Project #3
- What Made This a ‘War of No Choice’ | Six Day War Project #4
- Day One of the War | Six Day War Project
- The Six Day War – in Animation
- Day Two of the War | Six Day War Project
- Day Three of the War | Six Day War Project
- Day Four of the War | Six Day War Project
- Day Five of the War | Six Day War Project
- Day Six of the War | Six Day War Project
- The Day After the War | Six Day War Project
- Navigating the Road to Peace | Six Day War Project
- The Six Day War 1967 Documentary
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- United with Israel – Yom Yerushalayim – Jerusalem Day
- SBC | Am Yisrael | עם ישראל
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- שחרור הכותל הר הבית בידנו!
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- DF – Yom Yerushalayim — Jerusalem Day – Daily Focus
- Yerushalayim Shel Zahav – Jerusalem of Gold – Listen Up! A Cappella
- Rabbi Sacks: Jerusalem, the Beating Heart of Jewish Faith
- Beautiful! Yerushalayim Shel Zahav (performed by Ofra Haza)