June 10, 1967 Temple Mount
“From 1948 until 1967, Israelis did not have access to the Old City compound, when it was under Jordan’s control.” Source: The New York Times, October 22, 2015.
Six Day War
June 12, 1967 Yasser Arafat, Mahmud Abbas
On June 12, 1967, two days after the Six-Day War ended, the heads of Fatah met in Damascus and resolved to review the guerrilla war, but only inside the occupied territories and Israel rather than across the borders from the Arab states. They decided to open an emergency fund-raising campaign; to establish new bases along […]
November 22, 1967 The Six-Day War
U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 The Security Council, Expressing its continuing concern with the grave situation in the Middle East, emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war and the need to work for a just and lasting peace in which every State in the area can live in security, emphasizing further that […]
IDF Enters Jerusalem
Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Yitzhak Rabin in the entrance to the Old City of Jerusalem during the Six Day War, with Moshe Dayan and Uzi Narkiss. Photo courtesy of Ilan Bruner.