Dutch royals to discuss event overlapping Yom Kippur

A year after the Six-Day War, U.S. officials enacted a complex role-playing scenario that envisioned the next Arab-Israeli war. As it played itself out, the game anticipated key aspects of the War of Attrition and the Yom Kippur War. In the spring ...

Haaretz: "Netanyahu is a clown like Anwar al-Sadat" The Yom Kippur War which began on 6 October 1973 was fought primarily by Syria and Egypt, with some other military and financial assistance from many of the other countries which made up the Arab ...

In a meeting at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, shortly after the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger said to Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir: "Golda, it's those damn settlements that are causing us all the ...

My friend Raanan Kolar was killed in the Sinai in the Yom Kippur War.He was a hero, one of his comrades told me, though I couldn't care less I don't know anymore whether Raanan was my best friend in real time or whether he assumed that distinction ...

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz spoke at the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Western Wall on Sunday evening. During Gantz's speech, he noted that this year marks the 40th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. "40 years later, we remember the Yom ...

Heartrending letters were exchanged between a woman whose husband died in battle and the late musician and songwriter Naomi Shemer, hailed as the 'first lady of Israeli song and poetry.' Some 40 years after the Yom Kippur War, a series of ...

What is the proper Arab reaction to the strange prohibitions against eating bread on Passover and driving on Yom Kippur? I'm so happy that Im once again stuck in the morning traffic jams. Im so happy that Im once again driving my kids to school, ...

JERUSALEM, March 31 (UPI) -- Even on the morning Israel was attacked by Egypt and Syria, Dayan argued against calling up civilian military reservists on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Haaretz reported, citing recently release official ...

Manchester's King David High has rededicated a plaque in memory of a former pupil who died in the aftermath of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Michael Marshall, who was 19 at the time, survived the war but was killed by a sniper just after a ...