'Eighteen Days in October' uses recently declassified material to analyze the Yom Kippur War and tells the story of how the Israelis were able to repulse the Egyptian army and get across the Suez ...

Meanwhile, Israeli forces led by Ariel Sharon beat back the Egyptian advance in the south, crossed the canal and surrounded the Egyptian Third Army.

That was Sharon's defining characteristic in those distant days. As an army commander in the 1950s, he answered Palestinian bloodshed with bigger bloodshed. In 1973, with the Yom Kippur War going ...

From the very beginning of the Yom Kippur War, an exaggerated emphasis on the intelligence failure served the IDF senior command. It made it possible to deny and cover up the many deficiencies ...

The Yom Kippur War of 1973 was a pivotal conflict that dramatically reshaped the Middle East. This video delves into the key events that led to the war, starting with Israel's victory in the 1967 ...

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.

In the Suez campaign, the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War of 1973, Sharon proved both a war hero and an insubordinate commander who judged for himself — often correctly — what course would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.