An estimated 2,700 Israelis, 3,500 Syrians and 15,000 Egyptians were killed in the Yom Kippur war, ... Israeli forces led by Ariel Sharon beat back the Egyptian advance in the south, ...

The Yom Kippur War, which lasted until October 24, was not the rout Egypt and Syria had hoped for. Instead, after many initial missteps, Israel was able to repulse the invading armies.

Many had written off Ariel Sharon after his ill-fated 1982 invasion of Lebanon and a government commission's finding that he was indirectly responsible for the massacre of hundreds of Palestinians ...

Former chief of staff Haim Bar Lev consults with Major General Ariel Sharon and Moshe Dayan during the Yom Kippur War. Let’s take a moment to consider probably the most profound and least ...

What is most disturbing about the investigation of Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ("Belgian Prosecutor Looks at Sharon Role in '82 Massacre," July 4) is not the diplomatic problems that it ...

But what he considered his greatest military achievement came during the 1973 Yom Kippur War when a surprise attack by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria prompted Sharon to defy his ...

Ariel Sharon’s life spanned the trajectory of Israel’s history, from a boyhood on a secular, collective farm in the days of the British mandate, to participation in Israel’s War of ...

During the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Sharon astounded the world by outrunning his own orders, crossing the Suez Canal, and trapping an Egyptian army in the Sinai.

Sharon as a Brigidier General, standing at the Suez Canal in Egypt, 31 October 1973, during the Yom Kippur War EPA “There was no chance of getting out of there. I was seriously injured in my hip ...

Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the fourth Arab-Israeli Middle-East war. Called the Yom Kippur War, as Egypt and Syria attacked on Judaism's holiest day, and the Ramadan War, it occurred in ...