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Six-Day War: Forces
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The battle against Syria, Israel's bitterest enemy, persisted until the fifth day of the Six-Day War, despite the Syrian's heavy bombardment of the Hula valley settlements and the Galilee. The delay in the breakthrough of the Syrian attack after the defeat of the Egyptian army across Sinai, the release of Jerusalem, and IDF control of Judea and Samaria, raised a fear that it would be the Syrians, who were the source of the tension and caused the general flare-up in the first place, who would not be affected by the IDF. The main reason for the delay in the attack against Syria was because the Northern Command forces under the command of General David Elazar were confined to the Samarian front, where brigade after brigade was taken to help fight in this unexpected front.
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Just three years later, in the Six Day War, Israel was attacked on three fronts by a combined Arab force. Had the IDF not been in possession of a robust and well-trained armored corps, it is unlikely Israel would have prevailed on the ground as it did in the air.
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After the Six Day War, 500 men were expelled from the country and many more left due to "psychological warfare" or a "feeling that nothing was left for them in Egypt," said Laskier. Many of those who left had wives and families that followed them out. They were forced to leave behind their assets.
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The war lasted six days, 132 hours to be precise. But the battle was all but lost in the first hour, when the Israeli air force succeeded in destroying on the ground a very high proportion of the enemy combat planes. ‘Never in the history of military aviation has the exercise of air power played so speedy and decisive a part in modern warfare,’ observed R. Goring-Morris, Britain’s air attaché in Tel Aviv. Rarely, one might add, has such a short war had so many books written about it.
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