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unusual facts about Six Day War



322d Airlift Division

It also provided airlift support in the following crises: the nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; the 1958 Lebanon crisis; support for UN forces in the Congo in 1960–1961; the invasion of India by Communist Chinese forces in 1962–1963; airlift of peacekeeping forces to Cyprus in 1964; and the Middle East crisis of 1967.

Giora Epstein

Epstein's first kill came on June 6, 1967 during the Six Day War, when he downed an Egyptian Sukhoi-7 at El Arish.

Jeff Hook

Geoff first gained international recognition in 1967 for his cartoon about the end of the Six Day War, "The three wiser men", which was republished widely outside of Australia, including in The Times.

Land of Israel

Following the Six Day War in 1967, the 1977 elections and the Oslo Accords, the term Eretz Israel became increasingly associated with right-wing expansionist groups who sought to conform the borders of the State of Israel with the biblical Eretz Yisrael.

Murder of the Aroyo children

The no-intervention policy which was carried out by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip since Israel took over the Gaza Strip in the Six Day War (in part as a result of the IDF efforts to focus on the War of Attrition in the Suez Canal region), changed as a result of this incident.

Sud Aviation Vautour

They saw combat against Egypt beginning the following year and in a series of actions through the Six Day War and War of Attrition.

Sukhoi Su-7

The Su-7 saw combat with Egypt in the 1967 Six Day War, the subsequent War of Attrition, and saw use in the Yom Kippur War by the Egyptians to attack Israeli ground forces.

Technion Faculty of Aerospace Engineering

After the Six Day War, the faculty expanded and increased its research in airborne systems in affiliation with Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.


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Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa

The 2009 conference featured special presentations from John Bolton, Former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Gérard Prunier, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris; and Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, the authors of the award-winning book Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War.

Gush Katif

Its location was initially the main reason for its founding, as an Israeli civilian presence was important for cementing control of the area so as to prevent any future invasion from Egypt or its use as a staging area for fedayeen attacks, and indeed this rationale was echoed following the 1967 Six Day War by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Naksa

Naksa Day (Arabic for "day of the setback"), the anniversary of the 1967 Six-Day War