The topic for this week is Old Friends and Enemies. The 1950s and 1960s proved to be two decades of economic growth as well as expansion of recognition of military and foreign policy prowess. 

These decades are highlighted by Israeli involvement in the Suez crisis, agreement with West Germany for reparations and the Six-Day war in 1967.

Suggested Reading

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Documents Relating to the Agreement between the Government of Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany, Signed on 10 September 1952 at Luxembourg (1953); 

N. Robinson, Ten Years Indemnification (1964);