Abba Kovner
![On the Eve of the Six-Day War](https://www.jewishideasdaily.com/wp-content/files_mf/file_a62f9390.jpg)
Forty-five years ago today, on June 4, 1967, Israel and the Jewish world were in suspense. Today, we recall the Six-Day War as a stunning martial victory by the Jewish state; but on the war's eve, this outcome was wholly unforeseeable. Indeed, the odds appeared firmly stacked against Israel.