A Polish military officer who was stripped of his rank after the 1967 Six-Day War because he was Jewish was given back his bars. Poland’s defense minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, gave the lieutenant bars to Chaim Ben-Ya’akov while on a visit to Israel.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.