The IDF’s Merkava series of main battle tanks, widely considered to be of the most lethal armored vehicles in ... However, this agreement ultimately fell through, prompting Israel to develop its own ...

The subsequent 1973 Yom Kippur War had devastating consequences for Israel’s mechanized armor. Namely, Israel’s tank units suffered greatly when Egyptian and Syrian forces launched coordinated ...

Summary and Key Points: The M60 Patton, a second-generation Main Battle Tank (MBT), was introduced by the U.S. Army in 1960 during a tense Cold ... including the Yom Kippur War and Desert Storm, ...

Nevertheless, Yoram volunteered to serve in the armoured corpses and became a tank commander. Yoram was killed in the Golan Heights on the second day of the Yom Kippur War, 7 October, 1973.

History sometimes offers lessons from the past, and the Kursk offensive recalls a similarly daring move by Israel in the Yom ...

American Jews were not sure how to respond. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War — which broke out on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in 1973 and lasted for about three weeks — some of ...

Now, in A Winning Move, David and Shoshana are on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. David is a member of ... they learn that Yuval has gone missing during a battle in the Sinai desert.

(JTA) — In an early episode of “Valley of Tears,” the Israeli miniseries about the 1973 Yom Kippur War ... and rehabilitated tanks that were actually used in the war with the help of Israel ...