(Historical Terms) a war in which Egypt and Syria launched a joint surprise attack on Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur (Oct 6, 1973). It ended with a ceasefire (Oct 25, 1973), Syrian forces having been repulsed, Egypt having reoccupied a belt of the Sinai desert on the ...
Thirty-nine years ago, on Oct. 6, 1973, the third major war between the Arabs and Israel broke out. The war lasted only 20 days. The two sides were engaged in two other major wars, in 1948 and 1967. The 1967 War lasted only six days. But, these three wars were not the only Ar...
THE SUCCESS OF ISRAELI FORCES IN THE GOLAN was not happenstance. Though the Arab attack surprised them, Israeli leaders reacted swiftly and decided to concentrate forces against the Syrians first; if defenses broke in the Golan, they reasoned, the Syrians would reach inside Israel itself. The ...
On Oct. 6, 1973, the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. Iraqi forces joined the war and, in addition, Syria received some...
On October 6, 1973, that year the day of Yom Kippur and the 10th day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, a group of Arab nations lead by Egypt and Syria, launched an offensive against Israel.The Yom Kippur War has also been called as the Ramadan War...
Israeli bill to designate UNRWA a terrorist organization is an attack on humanitarian aid Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns a bill that passed a preliminary reading yesterday in Israel’s Parliament, known as the Knesset, aimed at designating UNRWA, the United...
Teenagers in Israel Beat a Palestinian Unconscious ; Attack on Arab Youths Adds to Fears of a Rising Sense of IntoleranceThe attack reflects an acknowledgment that the poisoned politicalenvironment around the...Kershner, Isabel
"This morning's attack once again proves that Arab terrorism seeks to harm the State of Israel and IDF soldiers. "The Israeli government has a duty to decisively defeat Arab terrorism and to announce the application of Israeli sovereignty, which will prevent the establishment of a terror state ...
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel's government has asked the country's airlines to submit bids for a special flight to carry an Israeli delegation and top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next week, an aviation source said on Thursday. Israel...
Israel sufficed with a symbolic attack on an Iranian air defence system, largely to prove to Teheran that it could do a lot more than that. And there the matter was left. This time, the response is unlikely to be merely symbolic. The reason is that, the Middle East being what it ...