The Six-Day War (which was actually a little longer)

In 1967, less than 20 years after the birth of the nation, President Nasser of Egypt said: "Our goal is clear--to wipe Israel off the map." Surrounded by the armies of three nations (Egypt, Jordan and Syria), and hung out to dry by her allies, Israel began to fight for her life in what was to be known as "The Six Day War."

"The phrase 'Six Day War' first appeared in The New York Times about two months later. The name, which is not properly descriptive--by most measures, the war laster more than a week--stuck because it echoed the holiest numbers in the Jewish lexicon: six days of creation, six million dead. The war was named like a TV show, with a demographic in mind: the Holocaust-haunted Jews of the world. It's a slogan: Six-Day War. It tells you that the story of modern Israel is the story of creation: something from nothing, desert in bloom--it's a miracle beyond normal history, so beyond question, so beyond doubt."
- Rich Cohen, Israel is Real, 269.