Yom Kippur War

50 years after the Yom Kippur War, veterans see echoes in Israel’s current crisis

The threat to Israel today is not existential, veterans say, nor is it external. This year, Israelis are fighting amongst themselves.

HBO series ‘Valley of Tears’ reopens wounds of the Yom Kippur War

Israeli film industry veterans bring to life a war that traumatized many Israelis and had never been portrayed on this kind of cinematic scale.

Israel will ‘defend itself, by itself’ Netanyahu asserts during Yom Kippur War memorial ceremony

Netanyahu did not mention the U.S. president’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria, a gap that could be filled by elements hostile to Israel.

Israel

Netanyahu apologizes for government no-show at Yom Kippur War memorial

Israel

US pilots reunite with Israeli ‘brothers in arms’ from Yom Kippur War

Culture

Leonard Cohen, my father and me

Culture

This album and listening experience re-creates the Yom Kippur War

Israel

Report that Soviets were delivering nukes to Egypt sent US on highest alert during ’73 war

Israel

Yom Kippur War hero Maj.-Gen. Avigdor ‘Yanush’ Ben-Gal dies at 79

Seeking Kin

Four decades after Golan attack, a search for survivors

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