(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 ...
In 1973, Arab nations’ surprise attack on Israel, and Arabs’ devastating oil embargo on the U.S. and other countries for their support of Israel in that fight, convinced U.S. leaders that a lasting resolution to Palestinian demands for statehood was in America’s strategic interest. Bu...
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,...
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 ...
Israeli police and security personnel work at the site of a stabbing attack in Ramla, Israel, on April 26, 2024. According to Israeli police and rescue services, early on Friday, an Arab assailant stabbed an 18-year-old woman in Ramla. The woman sustained serious wounds, and the attacker ...
Arab-Israeli War beginsEgypt and Syria strike Israeli-held territory in a two-front surprise attack aimed at regaining land lost in 1967's Six Day War. The Yom Kippur War ratchets up conflict between its combatants as well as their allies and arms-suppliers, the US for Israel and 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...
1973: 4th Arab-Israeli War of 1973:Called by Israel the Yom Kippur War, and by Arabs as the Ramadan War, began with a surprise attack launched on the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday (the dates also fell on the Muslim Ramadan holiday), as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. Despite aid from Iraq...
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...
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 ...