History and Conflicts

Declaration of Independence State of Israel
Israel before 1948 Since biblical times and as recorded in the Torah, God promised the Land of Israel to the Jewish people and has been sacred to them ever since. After establishing the First Kingdom of Israel in about the 11th century BCE, the Israelites ruled the area sporadically for […]

Israel Before 1948

War of Independence map
War of Independence 1948 On November 29th, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition Palestine. Immediately after the vote, the first Arab attack was launched in Jerusalem, and it did not take long before the fighting spread throughout the country. When Britain made it clear that their mandate […]

War of Independence

suez canal - Sinai Campaign
The Sinai Campaign of 1956 had a different meaning for the three countries involved in the military operation  – Israel, France, and Great Britain. The State of Israel needed to end incursions into Israel by terrorists and remove the Egyptian blockade of the Straits of Tiran, a narrow passage that […]

The Sinai Campaign 1956

conflicts and wars
Only five months after the end of the Six-Day War, the Egyptian navy, on the 21st October 1967, attacked and sunk the “Eilat,” an Israeli navy destroyer. This action took place in international waters. Israel retaliated by attacking the Oil refinery in Suez City, and the Egyptians response was to […]

The war of Attrition

Ammunition Hill in Six Day War
The 1967 Arab-Israeli war, also known as The Six-Day War, was waged between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria with troops and arms from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Algeria. From the establishment of the State, Israel’s leaders had been expressing a desire for peace negotiations […]

The Six Day War 1967

Yom Kippur War
Although Israel was taken by surprise at the start of the Yom Kippur War of 1973, the only real surprise was the timing of the attack. After the end of the War of Attrition, it was evident to the Israeli defense establishment that Egypt would not tolerate Israeli forces being […]

Yom Kippur War 1973