the Yom Kippur War lasted much longer than just the month of October This war destroyed many myths of Israeli society: the invincibility of the IDF, the infallibility of the intelligence services ...

agreed to send weapons and aircraft to Israel when the Soviet Union began resupplying Egypt and Syria, drawing the Yom Kippur War into the Cold War. In the film, Kissinger tells Meir that he is an ...

Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War ... off-guard by the war, in part because their leaders did not heed the warnings from some intelligence officials who saw the Egyptian and Syrian armies ...

In September, 1970, President Nasser of Egypt died suddenly ... the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur. The Egyptians drove the Israelis from the Suez Canal. FISK: The '73 war, the crossing of the ...

The Yom Kippur War was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took ...

The war marks the Israeli army’s highest death toll since the Yom Kippur War, when at least 2,500 soldiers were killed in 19 days of fighting. At least 1,200 people were killed, and 252 Israelis ...

In 1973, Egypt and Syria, attempting to win back territory lost during the third Arab-Israeli war, launched a coordinated ...

Ed Karrens: It was the afternoon of October the 6th, the Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur ... war in the 25 years of Israeli independence. Minister Abba Eban: "The Governments of Egypt ...