The Elusive, Impossible, Iconic War Photo
Revisiting the past to unravel the flood of images emerging from the Israel-Hamas War.
David Rubinger hated this photo. Arguably the most iconic and widely-recognized photo in Israeli history, it nearly ended up on the cutting room floor.
On June 7, 1967, Rubinger, covering the Six-Day War for LIFE magazine, reached the Western Wall in Jerusalem minutes after its liberation by Israeli paratroopers.
“The scene aro…