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Photos of the Six-Day War

A group of paratroopers surrounds then-IDF chief rabbi
Shlomo Goren at the Western Wall on June 7, 1967. 

A makeshift memorial to the fallen from Paratroopers Brigade’s 28th Battalion on June 5, 1967

From left, then-Maj. Gen. Uzi Narkis, then-Maj. Gen.
Rehavam Zeevi, then-defense minister Moshe Dayan and
then-IDF chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin visit the Western
Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City on June 7, 1967.

A paratrooper runs up the steps to
the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s
Old City on June 8, 1967. 

Soldiers carry away an injured comrade on a stretcher
through the streets of the Old City of Jerusalem on June 7, 1967. 

IDF soldiers clearing out buildings in the Muslim
Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City during the 1967
Six Day War. 

A group of paratroopers surrounds then-IDF chief rabbi
Shlomo Goren as he blows a shofar at the Western Wall
in Jerusalem’s Old City on June 7, 1967.

The head of the IDF’s Harel Brigade Col. Uri Ben-Ari
briefs his commanders on the outskirts of Jerusalem
on June 1, 1967.

A line of Sherman M-50 tanks and trucks full of soldiers
ride towards East Jerusalem to confront the Jordanians
on June 5, 1967.
 

Paratroopers take a break from the fighting with the
Mount of Olives in the background on June 5, 1967.

Paratroopers ride in a jeep near the East Jerusalem
neighborhood of A-Tur, with the Old City of Jerusalem
behind them, on June 5, 1967.

A soldier in the Paratroopers Brigade’s reserve reconnaissance
company cleans his rifle as his injured comrade reads the
newspaper near the Western Wall on June 7, 1967. 

Soldiers look out over the Old City of Jerusalem on June 5, 1967.

A group of soldiers surrounds then-IDF chief rabbi Shlomo
Goren as he blows a shofar at the Western Wall in
Jerusalem’s Old City on June 7, 1967.

A group of paratroopers sits along the Western Wall
in Jerusalem’s Old City on June 7, 1967. 


Source: Israeli Defense Ministry IDF Archive