Six Days    
 

 
Cosponsored by the Jewish Historical Society of Michigan, Barbara & Douglas Bloom
 and the Zionist Organization of America, Michigan Region

A Special Director’s Selection

2007, 95 minutes, English, Color and Black and White, Israel

Our tribute to Israel’s 60th birthday!

“...an eye-opening lesson in how moral certitude doesn’t always lead one out of the darkness...”

Commerce 5 p.m. Sun, May 4
Ann Arbor 2 p.m. Thur, May 15

In time for Israel’s 60th birthday comes this new documentary that uses arresting archival footage to examine, with fresh insight, how the 1967 Arab-Israeli war remade the Middle East.

This look at Israel’s victory in the Six-Day War is a tense, taut diary of a high-stakes military chess game. See Egypt’s President Nasser provoking the war for his doomed dream of pan-Arab nationalism, and the Israeli leaders who knew they could smash the Arab war machine. This extraordinary film even asks the question: In taking over all of Jerusalem, did Israel turn its greatest military triumph into a Pyrrhic victory - or was it historical justice?