Posts Tagged: Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War: Much More Than an Intelligence Failure
From the very beginning of the Yom Kippur War, an exaggerated emphasis on the intelligence failure served the IDF senior command. It made it possible...
Should Military Service Be a Career? The Long Roots of the Yom Kippur War Debacle
As the cardinal lesson from the War of Independence, the Israeli defense establishment decided, as Prime Minister and Defense Minister David Ben-Gurion told the Knesset...
A Personal Look at the Yom Kippur War
As we approach the 46th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, I have chosen to look at a book that illustrates the revolution that...
Production Begins on New Israeli TV Series ‘Valley of Tears,’ Set Against Yom Kippur War
Production kicked off on Sunday for a new Israeli TV drama show, "Valley Of Tears," industry magazine Deadline reported. The eight-part miniseries, filmed in Hebrew, will be...
Comparing Hebrew and Arabic Wikipedia Entries on the 1973 War Is Somewhat Hopeful
To Israelis, it is the Yom Kippur War. To Egyptians, it is the October (Tishrin), Ramadan, or Freedom War. Fought 45 years ago, the war...
Former Head of IDF Intelligence: This Will Be Israel’s Most Dangerous May Since 1967
The former chief of Israel Defense Forces intelligence believes the upcoming month of May could be the most dangerous Israel has faced since before the...
Soldier Originally Injured in 1973 Yom Kippur War Succumbs to Wounds Prior to Israel’s Memorial Day
JNS.org - Yitzhak Dreksler, an IDF soldier seriously wounded during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, passed away on Saturday afternoon following medical complications relating directly back...
Report: Listening to Declassified Walkie-Talkie Tapes From Yom Kippur War, Netanyahu ‘Yearns for One More Sentence, One More Word’ From Late Brother Yoni
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heard for the first time on Monday declassified recordings of his late older brother Yoni from the Yom Kippur War...
Israeli Defense Minister: ‘Woe to Us If We Do Not Internalize the Lessons of the Yom Kippur War’
In a ceremony held at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl Military Cemetery on Monday to commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Israeli's defense minister said that...
Yom Kippur War Veterans Say IDF Is Better Prepared Now
JNS.org - Forty-two years after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, only a handful of officers who served then remain in the Israel Defense Forces. Several of...
What I Owe Jerusalem
I arrived in Jerusalem from New York in July 1977, 10 years after the Six-Day War, and three weeks after Menachem Begin took office as...
Report: Israeli Delegation in Cairo Search for Bodies of 22 Missing Soldiers
Jerusalem Post - An Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo early Thursday morning in an attempt to find the remains of 22 soldiers who went missing...
Why Do We Fast on Yom Kippur, and Who Shouldn’t?
JNS.org - Herut Shitrid vividly recalls the first Yom Kippur she fasted. She was only 10, but somehow she was able to make it through...
EXCLUSIVE: How Richard Nixon Helped Save Israel (EXCERPT)
Editor's note; In connection with the 40th Anniversary of the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon, Roger Stone is releasing his second book, Nixon's...
