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10,000 war dead expected in 1967
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- On the eve of the Six-Day War, the chief military chaplain, Rabbi Shlomo Goren, was ordered to designate buri, The trepidation with which Israel regarded a war that would prove one of the most acclaimed military successes in history surfac
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But Dayan cited an anticipated casualty figure that Gavish declined to repeat. "He said that the current generation of paratroopers and tank men would be lost," said Gavish.
Israel lost 800 soldiers during the war.
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