As Israel rushed its reserves to meet the surprise Syrian-Egyptian attack opening the Yom Kippur War in 1973, it simultaneously dispatched contingents to Israeli Arab enclaves for fear of unrest.

The Yom Kippur War—Arabs prefer the Ramadan War, as though it was a battle between fasts—erupted on the afternoon of October 6, 1973, when Egyptian and Syrian forces surprised and overran ...

Israel recently marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that began on Oct. 6, 1973. >> Read more trending news. The Yom Kippur War. It was a surprise attack by Syrian tank columns and Egyptian ...

The earlier attack — which launched Arab-Israeli War, also called the Yom Kippur War — was led by Egyptian and Syrian forces. The name Yom Kippur War refers to the surprise attack, which ...

The initial days of the war were disastrous for Israel: it lost over 150 planes and its counter-attacks failed. But then Israel reversed its losses, repelling the Syrians back into Syria itself ...

Israel recently marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that began on Oct. 6, 1973. >> Read more trending news. The Yom Kippur War. It was a surprise attack by Syrian tank columns and Egyptian ...

Israel recently marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 war that began on Oct. 6, 1973. >> Read more trending news. The Yom Kippur War. It was a surprise attack by Syrian tank columns and Egyptian ...

It was a surprise attack by Syrian tank columns and Egyptian brigades, according to Reuters. It caught the Israeli military off guard as they were starting to observe Yom Kippur, which is the the ...

That peace agreement would go on to form “the basis for future peace agreements between other Arab States and Israel,” says Alexander Burns, an expert on the history of the Yom Kippur war and ...

Of the all surprises on Yom Kippur 40 years ago, the most difficult for Israel to come to grips with was the least tangible. The simultaneous attacks by Egypt and Syria were the basic surprise ...