Exceptionally large and wide-ranging collection comprising hundreds of publications – most of them printed by the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) and its various branches, dating from the time of the Six-Day War, and including orders, official statements, information sheets, battlefront notices, leaflets issued by individual combat units, song sheets, official documents, and other material. Israel, June 1967 (several items from earlier and later periods). English and Hebrew.

Some 750 printed items of ephemera, including:

• Daily order informing readers of the imminent launch of the war, hand signed by Major General Avraham Yoffe, commander of the 31st Armored Division, along with a handwritten comment: “Written and distributed to the soldiers on June 4, 1967” (a day before the outbreak of the war). Additional handwritten notations appear on the reverse side; in all likelihood, these were jotted down in the actual course of battle, and they include the names of various military units along with reports on their respective condition, and additional notations.

• Official statement from the day of the liberation of the Western Wall (June 7), issued by IDF Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren (Hebrew): “I speak to you from the plaza of the Western Wall… The dream of all generations has been realized [here] before our eyes… you have today fulfilled the oath of generations, ‘If I forget thee O Jerusalem may my right hand forget its cunning’”. In addition, the collection includes two official statements, one issued by Rabbi Goren on the Sabbath Eve prior to the outbreak of the war, and the other on the actual day the war began.

• A wide range of publications issued by the various commands and major IDF branches, specifically the Central Command, the Southern Command, the Air Force, and Navy.

• A wide variety of combat leaflets issued in strictly limited editions, including issues of the journal of the Harel Brigade; issues of “Chativon”; issues of the army magazine “Machanayim”; Issue No. 2 of “Tashbetzahal” (“IDF Crossword”); the magazine “Kidon UShlof”; issues of “Dorbanei HaPladah”; and numerous other publications of all kinds.

• Hundreds of issues of “Press Bulletin” (English) and “Yediot LaItonut” (“Press Releases”; Hebrew), two types of breaking-news bulletins released by the Israel Government Press Office, providing the earliest available documentation from the battlefront; proclamations on behalf of the official bodies; speeches delivered by senior officials; and more (leaflets in English, leaflets for the benefit of the Hebrew-language media, and maps).

• “Israel Defense Forces, Bulletin No. 1” (Hebrew and Arabic), the first statement of its kind to be issued by the Military Government in the Occupied Territories, listing eight orders to be followed by the local population.

• The first printing of the lyrics to the song "Yerusahalayim shel Barzel” [Jerusalem of Iron], famously written by Meir Ariel, a combatant in the Paratroopers Brigade, after Neomi Shemer's "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" [Jerusalem of Gold]. Published by the “Temple Mount Press” of the brigade command on June 12, 1967 – just a few days after the lyrics were composed.

• Ten “battle sheets” of the Tel HaShomer Hospital (precursor to today’s Tel HaShomer Medical Center) providing IDF guidelines to the hospital’s medical staff (Hebrew); apparently, these were the only pages to be printed.

• A double-sided game board, produced by the IDF Education Corps, one side intended for checkers and the game “Tachanot”, and the other side meant for “Catch the Infiltrator, ” a game to entertain soldiers specially devised by the IDF.

• And more.

Some 750 items of ephemera. Size and condition vary. Overall good condition. Creases, stains, punch holes, and minor tears. Several items in multiple copies.