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  Six-Day War

  noun

  a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.
• Six Day War
  Six Day War

  noun

  a war fought in the Middle East in June 1967, lasting six days. In it Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, occupying the Gaza Strip, the Sinai, Jerusalem, the West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights

Six-Day War

American  

[siks-day] / ˈsɪksˌdeɪ /

noun

1. a war fought in June, 1967, between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, in which Israel captured large tracts of Arab territory.

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Six Day War British  

noun

1. a war fought in the Middle East in June 1967, lasting six days. In it Israel defeated Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, occupying the Gaza Strip, the Sinai, Jerusalem, the West Bank of the Jordan, and the Golan Heights

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Six-Day War Cultural  

1. A war fought in 1967 by Israel on one side and Egypt (see also Egypt), Syria, and Jordan on the other. Israel, victorious, took over the Golan Heights, the Jordanian portion of Jerusalem (see also Jerusalem), the Jordanian West Bank of the Jordan River (see also Jordan River), and a large piece of territory in northeastern Egypt, including the Sinai Peninsula, which contains Mount Sinai. Israel still occupies all of these territories except the Sinai Peninsula, which it gave back to Egypt in 1982. Israel maintains that its security would be enormously endangered if it withdrew from the other places.

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For a generation of American Jews, the near-miraculous outcome of the Six-Day War moved Israel to the center of our Jewish identity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026

The assassination took place on the anniversary of the Six-Day War between Israel and Arab nations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2024

Previously occupied by Egypt, Gaza was captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War.

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

Orde Wingate's commando tactics dominated Israeli strategy through the dramatic victory of the Six-Day War in 1967.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2023

It aired the voices of Palestinian refugees who could not return home after the war of 1948 or the Six-Day War.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

A missing document also was a headache for President Lyndon B. Johnson in the lead-up to the 1967 Six Day War between Israel and Arab states led by Egypt.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 4, 2023

She stayed in the country through the Six Day War, even as most Americans fled, and then moved to London in 1968, drawn by the city’s budding conceptual art scene.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

It is impossible to underestimate the impact that Israel's astonishing victory in the Six Day War a few months earlier had on the collective Jewish psyche.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2015

Amos Oz was a founder of Peace Now and one of the first proponents of a two-state solution after the Six Day War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2014

Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967 and annexed the territory in 1981.

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