But in the first 24 hours of the Yom Kippur War, thinly manned Israeli positions were overwhelmed along the Suez Canal in the southwest and the Golan Heights in the northeast. “Golda” frames ...

Ed Karrens: It was the afternoon of October the 6th, the Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Yom ... War. The Jewish strategy was to make an all-out effort to regain the positions it had lost at the ...

In the post-war world, Egypt was growing closer to the Moscow and accepting Soviet arms. In the summer of 1956, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser seized control of the Suez Canal, a critical ...

In the early 1950s, Egypt blocks Israeli ships from passing through the Suez Canal ... The war ends on June 10. On Oct. 6, Egypt and Syria jointly attack Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day ...

Using guest speakers, this video clip examines the events surrounding the Yom Kippur War in 1973 ... Plan for Palestine in 1947. Suez and the arrival of the Cold War in the Middle East.