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The Tishrei Clashes: Where Do We Go From Here?

October 15, 1996 | Daniel J. Elazar

The Beginning of Israeli Rule in Judea and Samaria

April 16, 1989 | Major General Rephael Vardi

At the outbreak of the Six-Day War, I was serving as the commander of the district of Jerusalem. On the afternoon of June 7, 1967, I was riding in a half-track on the way to capture Bethlehem when I received a call on the radio to come back to Jerusalem because the Minister of Defense wanted to see me. I argued that I was in the midst of the campaign, but they repeated the message and kept insisting.

The Other Refugees: Jews of the Arab World

June 1, 1988 | Dr. George E. Gruen

Jews have lived in the Arab-speaking countries of western Asia and North Africa for millennia. Indeed, in certain countries such as Iraq, Yemen and Morocco, Jewish communities can be traced back to the period of the first exile, following the destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians in 586 BCE. If one includes the Muslim but non-Arab countries of Iran and Turkey, more than one million Jews lived in this region before the establishment of Israel in 1948.