The Six-Day War: Photos from a Short, Bloody Conflict

Air Force General Mordechai Hod and young Air Force cadets in a camouflaged position on the eve of what would later be called the Six-Day War, June 1967. The fighting that would triple the size of the territory controlled by the Jewish State and contribute to the myth of Israeli invincibility. As the military's chief of staff during the war, General Yitzhak Rabin would give the popular name to what is technically the Third Arab-Israeli War. He called it the Six-Day War, alluding to time God took to create the cosmos, according to scripture. To the Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians and Palestinians, the war had another name. They called it an-Naksah, Arabic for "the setback."