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Chairman of the Jewish Agency and WZO: Louis A. Pincus.

Alternate Chairman of the Executive of the WZO - Jewish Agency, American Section: Dr. Emanuel Neumann and Rose L. Halperin.

Treasurer of the Jewish Agency: Louis Arie Pincus.

Chairman of the Immigration Department: Shlomo Zalman Shragai.

Chairmen Absorption Department: Avraham Czygel, Tzivia Lubetkin.

Chairman Settlement Department: Raanan Weitz.

Immigration and Absorption Authority: Shlomo Zalman Shragai, Avraham Czygel, Arie L. Dulzin.

Chairman Youth Aliyah Department:Yitzhak Artzi.

June: in South Africa, 1.800 Jews volunteer for noncombatant service in Israel. Seven hundred and eighty-two arrive in Israel before the Jewish Agency advises that they cannot use any more volunteers.

The leadership of Israel and the WZO note with deep satisfaction the sense of oneness and unity of purpose manifested by Jews of all walks of life during the agonizing of May and June 1967. Jewish unity is no longer a phrase; the indispensability of Israel in the scheme of Jewish survival becomes a fact for Jews everywhere.

In fact, the worldwide fund-raising community begins to change its concept of "true partnership" prior to the Six Day War. In evaluating the situation, due consideration is given to changing trends in Jewish community leadership, particularly in the United States, in terms of their relationship with Israel.

New immigrants in 1967: 14,327.

January 15: A Saudi ship opens fire at an Israeli ship in the Gulf of Eilat.

January 17: Prime Minister Levi Eshkol reports 23 Syrian attacks since the beginning of the year, including attacks on farmers inside and outside the demilitarized zones, mine laying on roads, and sabotage of water installations.

January 25: The Israeli ship "Hashlosha" sinks west of Italy. Twenty of its crew drown.

February 5: The recession, which started in 1966, deepens and unemployment grows. The payment of unemployment compensation is initiated.

February 6: The government founds a coordinating body for the establishment of general television, directed by Maj. Gen. El'ad Peled.

March: Unemployment reaches 100,000 nationally.

March: Arab terrorist acts increase both in the border regions and in the hinterland.

March: In the course of the month, writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Bouvoir and Günter Grass visit Israel.

April 7 : Syrian forces shell Kibbutz Gadot for four days. Israeli aircraft attack Syrian artillery positions and Israeli jet fighters down seven Syrian MiG-21.

April 26 : Two weeks after the Israeli-Syrian air battle, Soviet Deputy Prime Minister Jacob Malik warns the Israelis that they are endangering the "very fate of their State."
The Soviet ambassador in Tel Aviv protests to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol that Israel is planning a war and that there are heavy troop concentrations along the Syrian border. Eshkol offers to take the ambassador to a fact-finding trip, but he declines. The Syrians take the Soviet claim seriously.

April 29: Fatah renews its campaign in Israel. A water pipeline is blown up and mines are laid near Tiberias, damaging an Israeli army truck.

May 12: Oded Kotler wins the Best Actor Award in the Cannes Film Festival for his leading role in the Israeli film: "Three Days and a Child."

May 13: Egyptian troops move into the Sinai, which is a demilitarized zone. Egypt radio sets the tone of propaganda ("Egypt, with all its resources, is ready to plunge into a total war that will be the end of Israel.")

May 15: Israel holds the Independence Day parade in Jerusalem without the usual numbers of heavy artillery and tanks. The full parade is not held because of an agreed limitation of tanks in the city, as laid down in the armistice agreement with Jordan.
Egypt accuses Israel of having sent the "missing tanks and other weaponry to the north." Egypt names May 17 as the day on which Israel will invade Syria.
A new song is born: "Yerushalayim shel Zahav" - "Jerusalem of Gold" by Naomi Shemer is performed for the first time on Independence Day. It soon becomes a kind of second national anthem.

The Prelude to the Six Day War. (May 16 - June 4)

June 5: The Six Day War begins.

June 10: The Soviet Union servers diplomatic ties with Israel. Other Soviet bloc states, with the exception of Romania, follow.

June 12: Israeli troops take control of the deserted Syrian stronghold on the summit of Mount Hermon. This is the only territorial gain made after the cease-fire.
The number of Israeli soldiers killed in the Six Day War is 777. Egyptian losses are estimated about 10.000. Over 5.000 Egyptian prisoners of war are held by Israel.

June 13: A Soviet-proposed UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel and ordering an unconditional withdrawal to the 1949 armistice lines fails passage.

June 14: At the Shavuot holiday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis arrive at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, which is now accessible to Jews for the first time since 1948.

June 14: UN General Assembly Resolution 237.

June 19: President Lyndon B. Johnson unveils a U.S. - Middle East policy. The U.S. would not press Israel to withdraw in the absence of peace. Five principles essential to peace are enunciated: the recognized right to national life; justice for the refugees; innocent maritime passage; limits on the arms race; and political independence and territorial integrity for all.

June 21: President Charles de Gaulle censures Israel for embarking on the Six Day War.

June 23: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin begin a summit conference in Glassboro, New Jersey. The conference ends on June 25 without any concrete agreements on the Middle East.

June 27: In a P.O.W. exchange with Jordan, Israel exchanges 428 Jordanian soldiers for two Israeli pilots held by Iraq.
The Knesset passes a law which allows the annexation of territories in the West Bank to the State of Israel. First to be annexed is East Jerusalem.

In June, the Six Day War produces an unexpected and widespread reaction of American Jewry. Hundreds of millions of dollars are raised for Israel's support.

June: Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin receives an honorary degree from the Hebrew University.

The immediate aftermath of the war.

July 1 - 2: Egyptians attempt to take control of the northern section of the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. An IDF unit thwarts them.

July 4: The UN General Assembly resolution on the Israeli-Arab conflict, drafted by Latin American nations, fails to receive the required vote. The U.S. is prepared to support the resolution's call on Israel "to withdraw all its forces from all territories occupied by it as a result of the recent conflict."

July 4 : The UN General Assembly, by a vote of 99 to 0, adopts a resolution declaring the changed status of Jerusalem to be invalid.

July 8: Another incident at the Suez Canal ends with five IDF soldiers killed and three wounded.

July 11: Israeli navy vessels sink two Egyptian torpedo boats in a sea battle in the Rumani region southeast of Port Said.

July: Leonard Bernstein leads the Philharmonic Orchestra in a performance on Jerusalem's Mount Scopus one month after the liberation of Jerusalem.

August 19 - September 1: The Khartoum Conference of Arab nations issues a proclamation of no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiation with Israel concerning any Palestinian territory.

August: The Greater Land of Israel Movement is founded.

September 27: The return begins to Kibbutz Kfar Etzion in the Hebron Hills, established in 1943 and captured and destroyed by the Jordanians in 1948.

October 3: Nahal founds the first settlement in the Sinai: Nahal Yam.
The results of a census conducted in the territories occupied by Israel show that approximately 1 million Arabs live there.

October 21 : An Egyptian missile sinks the Israeli destroyer "Eilat" off the Egyptian coast. Three days later, Israeli troops shell the major oil installations in the Egyptian port city of Suez in retaliation.

October 24: The IDF attacks and destroys the Egyptian oil refineries at Suez.

October 30: Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin awards 51 military citations to heroes of the Six Day War.

October 31: The Greater Land of Israel movement is established.

October: The Israeli UN delegate calls for a concerted action against South Africa in a UN debate on apartheid.

November 19: The Israeli pound is devalued.

November 22 : The UN Security Council passes Resolution 242.

November 26: Bus line 9 in Jerusalem renews its route to Mount Scopus after a 19 year hiatus.

Mordechai Ardon, Israeli painter, paints the triptych "At the Gates of Jerusalem", which is presented to the Israel Museum. The painting celebrates the reunification of Jerusalem and expresses his longing for a heavenly Jerusalem.

Moshe Safdie, Israeli architect, arouses world interest with his revolutionary modular housing project "Habitat", exhibited at the Montreal Expo 67 World Exhibition.

January: The 677-year-old Amsterdam Maastricht synagogue, the second oldest in Europe, which had been looted and partly destroyed by the Nazis in World War II, is completely restored at the Dutch government's expense.

July: Charles H. Jordan, executive vice chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, disappears while on a visit to Prague, Czechoslovakia. His body is found four days later. Czech officials intimate that he committed suicide by drowning, but U.S. and Israeli officials suspect foul play. The cause of his death has never been established.

The Jews of Spain regain religious freedom, as Spain enacts a law extending religious liberty to all denominations.

Chaim Potok, U.S. author, writes "The Chosen", the story of the struggle between ultra-Orthodox Hasidim and the more flexible Orthodoxy in an American setting as seen through the development of two Brooklyn yeshiva students, Danny Saunders and Reuven Malter.

Isaac Bashevis Singer publishes in English "The Manor" and, in 1969, its sequel "The Estate". They depict the lives of the Jacoby family from the time of the Polish insurrection of 1863 to the end of the 19th century.

Neil Simon, U.S. playwright, has four plays running simultaneously on Broadway: "Barefoot in the Park", "The Odd Couple", "Sweet Charity" and "The Star-Spangled Girl".

Dustin Hoffman, U.S. actor, gains fame as he stars in the film "The Graduate". The film's soundtrack is by Simon and Garfunkel.

The New York Jewish Museum exhibits "Masada and the Finds from Bar Kochba Caves."

Hans Albrecht Bethe, U.S. nuclear physicist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for describing the nuclear reactions in the energy production of stars.

George Wald, U.S. biologist, is awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for discoveries about the eye and the perception of color.