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NEGEV, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 2, 1949: David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of the Jewish State, wears military uniform during a visit on December 2, 1949 to the negev desert in southern Israel. (Photo by David Eldan/GPO via Getty Images) ( 80630877 )

A burnt out Egyptian aircraft at El Auth airport, Sinai, during the Six Day War. (Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images) ( 2660716 )

Israeli infantry making a full assault on Egyptian forces in the Negev area of Israel during the War of Independence. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 2659314 )

L-R: Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat, US president Jimmy Carter and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin sign the Egyptian - Israeli peace agreement at the White House, Washington DC, 1978. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 1805433 )

Egyptian prisoners captured by Israeli troops, during the Six Day War in the Middle East. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images) ( 2628444 )

Jewish refugees swim to shore from the SS 'United Nations' (formerly the Archimedes) which deliberately ran agound at Nahariya near Haifa carrying 700 central European Jewish refugees. It sailed from Bari, Italy, evading vessels of the British blockade on the way. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 2658508 )

A line of Egyptian prisoners, captured during the Israeli advance. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Getty Images) ( 2660882 )

Women of the Haganah train in one of their settlements in Palestine. (Photo by London Express/Getty Images) ( 2664071 )

British soldiers running through the old city of Jerusalem. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) ( 2668904 )

June 1948: Israeli soldiers travel on route 7 to Jerusalem during the War of Independence. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images) ( 3068294 )

Ten of the most wanted men in Palestine: a police poster exhibited throughout Palestine in 1947 in an effort by the British authorities to stop the terrorist activities of, amongst others, Menachem Begin (top left), who later became Israeli prime minister (1977-1983). (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 3100174 )

November 1936: Members of the 2nd Battalion of the former East Kent Regiment, informally known as Buffs, keep watch from a lookout post in Acre. The town was part of the British mandate of Palestine from 1918 until 1949, when it was incorporated into the state of Israel. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images) ( 3166776 )

October 1947: Medical orderlies carrying a sick illegal immigrant off the ship 'Jewish State' at the harbour in Haifa. The man's wife accompanies the troops. The ship was then sent on to Cyprus. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3204153 )

April 1946: The ship 'Asya', which had been renamed the 'Tel Hai', landing in Haifa. The ship is carrying survivors from the concentration camps at Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergenbelsen and Buchenwald. (Photo by Dr Ernst Aschner/Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3204157 )

1948: Members of the Jewish militia, the Irgun, marching through the streets of Tel Aviv on the eve of the declaration of the Jewish State. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images) ( 3204181 )

31st January 1949: A Jewish flag is unfurled at the Israeli Embassy at Manchester Square, London, following Britain's recognition of the new state of Israel. Embassy staff stand on the balcony. (Photo by Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Getty Images) ( 3269029 )

June 1948: The last of the British troops leave Haifa, Palestine. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3269640 )

Circa 1974: Three young men believed to be Israeli troops in the desert near Cairo. (Photo by David Cairns/Express/Getty Images) ( 3279152 )

11th December 1917: British general, E H H Allenby, riding away from Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem, after his formal entry on foot into the Sacred City. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 3289665 )

8th June 1967: A victorious Israeli convoy in Egypt during the Six-Day War. (Photo by Terry Fincher/Express/Getty Images) ( 3333717 )

Circa 1925: Russian born chemist and Zionist leader Dr Chaim Weizmann (1874 - 1952), the first president of the new nation of Israel. (Photo by E. O. Hoppe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 3347153 )

12th June 1967: Israeli troops salute their flag as they occupy Syrian territory during the Six Day War. (Photo by Stan Meagher/Express/Getty Images) ( 3419598 )

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - NOVEMBER 1, 1956: At the start of Israel's first occupation of this war-torn area, an invading Israeli infantry trooper writes home during a lull in the fighting November 1, 1956 at the southern Arab town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip. In late October 1956, shortly before the British and French invasion of the Suez Canal Zone, Israeli troops seized the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and used it as a springboard for its advance against the Egyptians in the Sinai Peninsula. On March 6, 1957 the United Nations Emergency Force replaced the Israeli troops, and Cairo regained control of the Gaza Strip. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images) ( 52998095 )

RAFAH, GAZA STRIP - JUNE 5, 1967: Israeli troops and armor advance against Egyptian troops at the start of the Six-Day War June 5, 1967 near Rafah, Gaza Strip. Thirty-eight years after Israel captured the Gaza Strip from the Egyptians during the campaign, the Jewish state looks poised to leave the populous Palestinian territory as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan approaches its August 15, 2005 implementation. (Photo by Micha Han/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53004181 )

EGYPT - JUNE 5, 1967: Egyptian MIG-21 warplanes lie destroyed on the tarmac after an Israeli Air Force preemptive strike June 5, 1967 against Egyptian airfields at the start of the Six-Day War. Thirty-eight years after Israel captured the Gaza Strip from the Egyptians during the campaign, the Jewish state looks poised to leave the populous Palestinian territory as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan approaches its August 15, 2005 implementation. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images) ( 53004196 )

ISRAEL - MAY 29, 1967: Israeli army's Southern Command General Ariel Sharon (2nd L) meets with his officers a week before the June 5 start of the Six-Day War May 29, 1967 at their headquarters somewhere in southern Israel. Thirty-eight years after Israel captured the Gaza Strip from the Egyptians during the campaign, the Jewish state looks poised to leave the populous Palestinian territory as the now Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan approaches its August 15, 2005 implementation. (Photo by Micha Han/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53011030 )

KIBBUTZ DOVRAT, MANDATE PALESTINE - OCTOBER 31, 1946: Jewish pioneering settlers erect the first hut of this cooperative farming community October 31, 1946 at Kibbutz Dovrat, during the British Mandate of Palestine, in what would later become the State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53049318 )

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL - MAY 14: In this handout from the GPO, David Ben Gurion, who was to become Israel's first Prime Minister, reads the Declaration of Independence May 14, 1948 at the museum in Tel Aviv, during the ceremony founding the State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53051680 )

HAIFA, MANDATE PALESTINE - JULY 18, 1947: The crowded illegal immigration ship Exodus, carrying Jewish refugees from war-torn Europe, July 18, 1947 in Haifa port, during the British Mandate of Palestine, in what would in the next year become the State of Israel. (Photo by Frank Shershel/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53064424 )

HAIFA, ISRAEL - JULY 1, 1949: New Jewish immigrants eat their meal together in a large barracks housing entire families at the Shaar Aliya immigrants' camp July 1, 1949 in Haifa in the newly-established State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53064430 )

BEIT LID, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 1, 1949: A guard tower throws a long afternoon shadow over a new immigrants' camp December 1, 1949 at Beit Lid in the newly-established State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53064432 )

ATLIT, MANDATE PALESTINE - NOVEMBER 4, 1944: Jewish survivors of the Nazi concentration camps in Europe still wear the signs of their ordeal on their tattered clothing at the new immigrants' reception camp November 4, 1944 at Atlit, during the British Mandate of Palestine, in what would later become the State of Israel. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53064440 )

ISRAEL - 1948: Ariel Sharon holds a Sten gun as a young commander in the Alexandroni Brigade of the fledging Israeli army during the War of Independence in 1948. (Photo by Ministry of Defense via Getty Images) ( 56542241 )

SUEZ CANAL, EGYPT - OCTOBER 1973: Israeli army Southern Command General Ariel Sharon with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 on the western bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt. (Photo by Ministry of Defense via Getty Images) ( 56542247 )

Troops inspect the wreckage of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British Mandate of Palestine, shortly after it was bombed by Zionist terrorists of the Irgun group, 22nd July 1946. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 57464388 )

British soldiers escort a group of Arab prisoners from the Old City of Jerusalem after a revolt against the British mandate in Palestine, 26th October 1938. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ( 57555596 )

TEL AVIV, PALESTINE - NOVEMBER 29, 1947: Jubilant residents celebrate with what would become the Israeli flag after the United Nations decision to approve the partition of Palestine November 29, 1947 as crowds gather in front of the Mugrabi cinema in Tel Aviv in the British Mandate for Palestine. (Photo by Hans Pins/GPO via Getty Images) ( 80630844 )

PALESTINE - APRIL 27, 1948: Less than 3 weeks before Israel's independence, the flag of the future Jewish State is raised at morning parade at a training base of the fledgling Israeli Defense Forces April 27, 1948 in what was still the British Mandate for Palestine. (Photo by Zoltan Kluger/GPO via Getty Images) ( 80630867 )