Early summer in Israel is more than the beach and matriculation exams. It is also a recurring period of preemptive clarity, decisive action, and fateful military gambits. The Six Day War began in ...

Capt. Rafi Sivron dangles his feet in the Suez Canal the day after the end of the Six-Day War. Photo courtesy of Rafi Sivron It was a war the world had never seen — pre-emptive, daring ...

Over the course of the Six-Day War, Israel captured and occupied the Sinai Peninsula, West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights, dramatically changing the territorial facts of the Middle East.

It may well be remembered as a pyrrhic victory for Israel: in six days it stunned the world by vanquishing several Arab armies, only to be saddled with a deeply corrosive 50-year fight with the ...

ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: This week marks the 50th anniversary of a war that redrew the map of the Middle East. In six days, Israel, surrounded by hostile neighbors, defeated the combined armed forces ...

It won’t work. Israel will not be able to generate the time, the financial assistance, the legitimacy, the Palestinian partner or the global allies it needs to win this six-front war.

Fifty years after the Six-Day war, the occupation of the West Bank has become so normalized in the minds of Israelis that many don't know which towns are on which side of the pre-war border.

As Jerusalem marks the 49th anniversary of the reunification of the city, take a look at photos dating back to before the Six Day War.

What if Israel had lost the Six-Day War? What if the conflict that erupted 50 years ago this week between Israel and its largest Arab neighbors — Egypt, Syria, and Jordan — had gone the other way?

The Iranian-backed militias in Iraq stayed largely quiet during the 12-day war. The Houthis of Yemen persist in lobbing the odd missile at Israel, but Israel will clean their clock, too.

“The Six Day War was one of the greatest victories in the history of Israel,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a nationalist, recently said in marking the anniversary.