Editing Levi Eshkol (section)

====Six-Day War====
[[File:Cheering reserve soldiers greeting Levi Eshkol and min. Menahem Begin in Sinai. June 1967. D705-048.jpg|thumb|Eshkol and [[Menachem Begin]] visiting Israeli troops in Sinai shortly after the Six-Day War]]
The special relationship he developed with Johnson would prove pivotal in securing US political and military support for Israel during the "[[Waiting period (Six-Day War)|Waiting period]]" before the [[Six-Day War]] of June 1967.<ref name="Johnson">{{cite book |title=The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership |last=Avner |first=Yehuda |author-link=Yehuda Avner |year=2010 |publisher=The Toby Press |isbn=978-1-59264-278-6 |page=599}}</ref>

According to [[Michael Oren]], Eshkol's intransigence in the face of military pressure to launch an Israeli attack is considered to have been instrumental in increasing Israel's strategic advantage and obtaining international legitimacy, but at the time, he was perceived as hesitant, an image cemented after a stuttered radio speech on 28 May.<ref>{{cite book |author-link=Michael Oren |first=Michael B. |last=Oren |year=2003 |title=Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East |publisher=Random House |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/sixdaysofwarjune0000oren_u3x7/page/316 316] |isbn=0-345-46192-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/sixdaysofwarjune0000oren_u3x7/page/316 }}</ref> Egyptian President [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]]'s ever-increasing provocations created diplomatic support for Israel. Eshkol eventually established a [[National Unity Government]], together with [[Menachem Begin]]'s [[Herut]] party, and conceded the Defense portfolio to [[Moshe Dayan]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YAd8efHdVzIC&pg=PA342|title=The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History [4 volumes]: A Political, Social, and Military History|last1=Tucker|first1=Spencer C.|last2=Roberts|first2=Priscilla|date=2008-05-12|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781851098422|language=en}}</ref>