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 1973 they launched major offensives against Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur. The Egyptians drove the Israelis from the Suez Canal. FISK: The '73 war, the crossing of the Suez Canal ...

The Yom Kippur War was an armed conflict ... Egypt's initial objective in the war was to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and subsequently leverage these gains to negotiate ...

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 ...