President De Gaulle speaking with Lady Bird Johnson and then shaking hands with Golda Meir, Foreign Minister of Israel. A translator from the U.S. State Department assists in the conversations. A French language interpreter of the State Department with the French President and First Lady. De Gaulle moves through the large room, shakes hands with the Foreign Minister of Israel Golda Meir. The French Ambassador in Washington is present at the event. Dignitaries served refreshments in the State Dining Room adjacent to the Jefferson Room. Policemen and civilians crowd outside the doors of a hall.
Six day war in middIe east ends as Israel and Syria agreed to observe a United Nations-mediated cease-fire. At the United Nations Security Council in the United States: Syrian Ambassador, Russian delegate Nikolay Prokofyevich Fedorenko, Israeli Ambassador Gideon Raphael state their points during the session. War scenes from the Six-day war: Burning buildings. Bodies lying on desert. Prisoners of war are taken by Israeli Defense Forces soldiers (IDF). Prisoners walk with raised hands. Bullet holes in train and car. Damaged military vehicles on streets. Wounded soldiers are moved on stretchers to hospitals. Damaged UAR military vehicles along the Gaza Strip. Arabs under arrest. Egyptian prisoners of war. Empty offices with photo frames of President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser. UAR Commander General Abdul Hussein meets Israeli military leaders. He signs the cease-fire agreement. Israeli flag flutters in wind. In Bethlehem: Israeli troops on streets with tanks. Civilians watch the tanks. In Jerusalem: Tanks move through streets and enter city. Women weep. Jewish people on streets. Israeli troops enter the Old City. Defense Minister of Israel, Moshe Dayan with soldiers offers prayers at the Wailing Wall or Western Wall. Israeli troops march through the streets with weapons including some UZI submachine guns.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Washington DC, United States. The U.S. flag on the White House. A large crowd gathered outside the White House. A woman among the crowd taking pictures. U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife walking through a group of people. U.S. President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter greet Prime Minister Begin and his wife. Prime Minister Begin shakes hands with other officials. Other officials standing behind them. The flags of the U.S. and Israel. An U.S. military honor guard marches. U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks into microphones at a podium. Prime Minister Begin standing beside him. The wives of the President and the Prime Minister standing behind them. A large crowd in the background on the White House lawn. President Jimmy Carter welcomes the Prime Minister of Israel and his wife, in Washington as part of middle east peace talks. The President says that he has been encouraged by Prime Minister Begin's statement that this year might be a year of efforts that would bring permanent peace and security to the Middle East. He says that they share a common goal of finding peace and this binds the two nations together. The President says that they are honored with their presence and welcome them as their guests. The crowd applauds. Prime Minister Begin speaks into the microphones. He thanks the President. Prime Minister Begin says that they yearn for peace and shall do all things possible to bring real peace to them and their neighbors. The Prime Minister says that he sees President Carter not only as a citizen of a mighty country but also as the defender of the free world. He thanks the U.S. President at the end of his speech. The men shake hands. View of the crowd applauding. President Carter waves to the crowd.
Israeli Haganah soldiers (shortly before formation of Israeli Defense Forces or IDF) advance through war-torn Haifa during 1948 Arab-Israeli War in Palestine region. Israeli soldiers search Arabs at a checkpoint. Arabs detained by Israelis. Palestinian refugees fleeing Israeli occupied area carrying their belongings (one using a baby carriage for that purpose). Dejected Palestinian women and children. Dead bodies of Arabs on the ground. Israelis advancing in a town using an armored car. Two armed Israeli soldiers holding their flag. Israeli soldiers gathered together conversing behind Barricade and barbed wire. United Nations meeting at headquarters in Lake Success, New York. A speaker at the podium. Delegates conversing between sessions. Jewish people celebrate the new State of Israel, in New York City, in May 1948. A boy hoists the new country's flag from an apartment window, as crowd stands outside and celebrates. A group of young people dance the Hora (circle dance) in the midst of the crowd.
Scenes of a countryside road in Israel. Donkey goes along the road with a luggage on its back. A boy pulls donkey's harness. Girls go along with donkeys. Truck rides on the road. Man talks and points towards plains along the road. Scene of road and donkeys standing on plains with hills in the background. Military police, with torch emblem on shoulder of their uniform shirts, converse with other men on the road.
Arab refugees in Israel. Families encamped on windy hillside. Women stand and children play. Tents in the background. Men carry children and stand. Children and woman sit beside belongings. Arab men talk. Donkeys stand in the background.