The Yom Kippur War, Explained: In 1973, a coalition of Arab states led by Syria and Egypt initiated coordinated attacks in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights against Israel.

marking the heaviest air campaign in the country since the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Israel’s Ynet news outlet cited Western intelligence sources late Monday night as confirming the figure ...

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

As always, the power of the people of Israel is revealed precisely when it seems to be at its lowest point.

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 ...

The Yom Kippur War was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took ...

(JTA) — Leonard Cohen’s momentous trip to the Sinai Desert to perform for Israeli soldiers in the wake of the Yom Kippur War is being turned into a dramatized TV series. “Who by Fire ...

In 1973 they launched major offensives against Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur. The Egyptians drove the Israelis from the Suez Canal. FISK: The '73 war, the crossing of the Suez Canal ...

Valley of Tears,' about the opening days of the Yom Kippur War In refusing to obey a command, Itzhak Nagreker managed to save his comrades sheltering inside Tel Saki bunker — and landed him in ...

Yom Kippur. Jews throughout the world were observing this sacred day of religious commitment; but in Israel, the day was shattered by the news that war between the Jews and Arabs once again had begun.