Translation: “Seek peace and pursue it” from Psalms. Painted on a public bomb shelter in Israel’s North (Aviva Schreiber) The 1967 war, of course, took six days, and the 1956 Sinai Campaign, eight. The Yom Kippur War lasted three weeks, and in 1982, Operation Peace for Galilee—the First Lebanon War—raged for three months. The Second Lebanon War ground on for fifty-four days.