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 ...

An amazing footage from 41 years ago shows a dogfight between an Israeli Phantom and an Egyptian Mig ... to-air missile that brought down the Egyptian ... during the Yom Kippur War.

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 ...

October 6 marks the 48th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War, when Israel was attacked by Syrian and Egyptian forces in a coordinated effort. Search. ... missile sites, ...

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’s 1973 war, otherwise known as the Yom Kippur War, cemented the country’s reputation as a military juggernaut in the region. Despite efforts by Arab armies to modernize and reform their ...

Abraham Rabinovich, author of The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter That Transformed the Middle East, describes the Yom Kippur War as both “the greatest military victory Israel has ever had ...

On Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, nearly 1,400 Syrian tanks and over 600,000 Egyptian soldiers lined Israel’s northern and southern borders.

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 ...

The author of 'Eighteen Days in October' about the significance of Israel's 1973 Yom Kippur War talks about its effect on peace in the region, major missteps of the war energy policy and more.

40 years ago, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur. David Frum says the betting after the war was that Israel was endangered. Yet the military and economic threats to Israel haven't ...

“Until the Yom Kippur War in 1973, until then, Israel didn’t have a chance but to fight for her life,” the late Israeli politician Shimon Peres observed. “We were attacked five times ...