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 ...

Before the latest episode with Iran, Israel operated in Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen against non-state actors. The escalation signifies a new phase that may enhance its engagements with regional ...

Lessons from the Yom Kippur war, 50 years on – and why it matters today. As the world holds its breath and leaders meet in an attempt to stop the Israel-Gaza conflict from escalating, author Uri ...

The Religious Significance Of The Yom Kippur War. By. Rabbi Moshe Taragin - 19 Tishri 5784 – October 4, 2023. 0. Share on Facebook. Tweet on Twitter ...

Topic: Yom Kippur War. Blog Brand: The Reboot. Tags: 1973, ... As part of a combined arms team, and equipped with active protection systems to shoot down anti-tank rockets, ...

The Yom Kippur War lasted 19 days, longer than 1956 and 1967 combined. Israel suffered more than 2,500 killed in action. Hundreds more Israelis were captured in the first days of fighting; ...

The Yom Kippur War brought all this to an abrupt end. With defense spending soaring by 1975 to 31% of the gross national product, deficits ballooned, inflation spiked, and the lira became paper money.

Not long after the end of Yom Kippur War in 1973, ... The war, an 18-day battle between Israel and the combined forces of Egypt and Syria, resulted in the deaths of over 2,000 Israeli troops, shocked ...

The war began on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur and on the 10th day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. It was a culmination of three prior conflicts between Israel and Arab countries in 1949 ...

The Yom Kippur War changed both Israel ... The Jewish state’s surprise victory in the 1967 Six-Day War, in which Israel defeated the combined armies of ... the U.S. eventually initiated an arms ...

In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, ... Preeminent among them is, in fact, a lesson relearned: When you don’t possess and operate a fully combined-arms force, you gamble at war.

On October 4, 1973, two days before the Yom Kippur invasion, Israel got another dramatic break: Marwan notified the Mossad that he wanted to talk in person with its director.