That kind of talk and the ensuing bloody battles ... Jerusalem Day, which marks the Hebrew calendar anniversary of Israel’s capture of eastern Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

TEL AVIV—For six months, Israel’s military has won battle ... early in the war and is now a senior fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank.

But Ukraine also has ultimately lost major battles ... the gritty tank commanders who against all odds repelled the Syrian and Egyptian armies in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, Govrin said.