Destroying over eighty percent of the Egyptian aircraft on the ground, Israel seized total control of the skies. Rather than waiting like a sitting duck for the Arabs to strike first, Israel made a daring air-blitz against the Egyptian air force on June 6. In the first week of June, 1967, Israel decided that her neighbors' choke-hold on her was not to her liking. They conspired to annihilate the Jewish State once and for all, and to carve it up among themselves. The three hostile neighbors therefore put a noose around Israel's neck in the form of a siege. The Syrians promised their soldiers luxury apartments in Haifa, the Egyptians claimed Tel Aviv and Jordanians thought that all of Jerusalem would soon be theirs. In May of 1967, the Arabs became intoxicated with illusions of grandeur. The Syrian army units, perched like buzzards in the steep Golan Heights overlooking the north of Israel, made life as unbearable for their Jewish neighbors as they could. Children in Kibbutz Dan slept in bomb shelters almost nightly. Farmers in Ein Gev and Tel Qatzir suffered from daily sniper fire. In loving memory of Private David Shirazzi, of blessed and martyred memory, whose heroic story we are about to tell:įrom Israel's Independence in 1948 to June of 1967, life in the Galilee Panhandle and Israel's narrow eastern shore of Lake Kinneret was purgatory.
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