Program for Jewish Civilization

The Yom Kippur War and the War in Lebanon, the Intifada and the rise of Palestinian terror, the controversy over Jerusalem and Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank, the peace process—all resulted from six days of intense Arab-Israeli fighting in June 1967. The Six-Day War, as it is widely known, was totally unique in history. Never has a conflict so short, yielded such profound and far-reaching results. Seldom has a war, unforeseen and mostly unwanted, concluded so astonishingly.

Drawing on thousands of formerly top-secret documents, on rare papers in Russian and Arabic, and on exclusive personal interviews, Six Days of War recreates the regional and international context, which, by the late 1960s, virtually assured an Arab-Israeli conflagration. Also examined are the domestic crises in each of the battling states, and the extraordinary personalities—Moshe Dayan and Gamal Abdul Nasser, Hafez al-Assad and Yitzhak Rabin, Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin—that precipitated this earthshaking clash.