Way Back in the Book of Genesis, Abraham was called out of Ur (near Baghdad) by God, to the land we now call Israel to start a new Family of people we NOW call the Jews.
Abraham's wife Sarah got tired of waiting to get pregnant, so SHE suggested that Abraham have sex with her servant Hagar, and Thus, the ARABS were started! (oopsie!)
Sarah finally DID have a son, Isaac who was the Son of the Promise, and Isaac's son Jacob was renamed ISRAEL by God Himself. Israel went on to have TWELVE Sons who were the founders of the Twelve Tribes of Israel.
The Land upon which the modern State of Israel sits has been theirs since that time. However the STATE of ISRAEL which was temporarily discontinued by the Roman Empire in 70AD was Re-Instated by a decision of the United Nations in 1948.
The 1967 date that You remember was the Glorious re-Unification of Jerusalem. Israel was horribly attacked on all sides by its neighbors of disproportionate size, and yet still managed to win. The reunification of Jerusalem was the wonderful result.
Thank you so much for seeking information on this subject!
A lot of people don't know the whole story.
I have never heard about Israel's policy re: gays in the military, but I suppose they are just as interested in fighting for Israel's survival in the midst of 2.5 million hostile agressors as anyone else in that tiny sliver of land, LOL.
