Six-Day War>Recollections

Israel in May 1967 was under threat from all directions and young Jews from the

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

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

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

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

In June 1967 I was a 14 year old school boy attending a Jewish school

Israel Bonan was a Jewish student, born and living in Egypt during the 1967 events…

When the Six-Day War started, my parents Frank and Clare, did not know which way to

I was then a London cab driver, and I remember picking a typical city gent

I remember as a child at cheder at Harley Grove Synagogue in Bow East London

On Monday 5th June 1967 I was a young ship-broker working in the City of London,

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

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

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

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

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

I wonder how many folks out there are getting nostalgic of late, or is it

I was 18 years old and had never really considered my Jewishness. I lived in