On June 5, 1967, the 55th Paratroopers Brigade was deployed to Jerusalem by bus. This week all three spoke to JTA at Tel Aviv University in a spirited four-way conversation arranged by Friends of the IDF. They will also recount some of the sacrifices that were made in the battle for Jerusalem. the tour, sponsored by Friends of the IDF, will stop at Jewish communities and other locations in the Cleveland, Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston and Baltimore areas. What was there to celebrate? We had lost many of our friends.”īetween June 5 and 15, in honor of the Six-Day War’s 50th anniversary, the three former paratroopers, now in their 70s, will re-create Rubinger’s photo in their first-ever tour of the United States. “To liberate the Kotel was something amazing,” Yifat told JTA, referring to the Western Wall.
But in an interview with JTA, they said the war for them was just as much about loss. Yitzhak Yifat, Tzion Karasenti and Chaim Oshri - have proudly served as symbols of the historic Israeli victory for the past five decades. JERUSALEM ( JTA) – David Rubinger’s iconic photograph of three paratroopers at the Western Wall is the defining image of the 1967 Six-Day War.
