“Until the Yom Kippur War in 1973, until then, Israel didn’t have a chance but to fight for her life,” the late Israeli politician Shimon Peres observed. “We were attacked five times, outgunned, ...
After a surprise attack this month, Israel declared war on Hamas and began strikes in the Gaza Strip. This comes 50 years after another surprise attack on Israel by Egypt, Syria, and other Arab forces ...
This current war with Hamas is a far more dangerous threat to Israel than the 1973 Yom Kippur War, almost exactly fifty years ago. In 1973, it was solely a military contest, one that the Israelis, ...
When Maj. Gen. Eli Zeira died last month at age 97, it was the passing of the longest-lived and most contentious of the generals who led the Israeli army in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As head of the ...