Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid tribute to the 2,700 Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. The soldiers’ heroism brought “our southern enemies to recognize that they haven’t the strength to defeat us on the battlefield” and paved the way toward the 1979 peace treaty with Egypt, the premier said at a ceremony on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl. About one of every 600 Israeli men was killed in the war.
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