Waiting Period (Six-Day War)
The waiting period (Hebrew: תקופת ההמתנה,Tkufat HaHamtana) was a 3-week interval in the history of the State of Israel, May 15 - June 5, 1967, between the Egyptian crossing of the Suez Canal into the Sinai Peninsula and the outbreak of the Six-Day War.
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