and the power of our leadership In crossing the Suez Canal, the 421st brigade changed not just the course of the war, but possibly even the face of the Middle East The Yom Kippur War was an armed ...

"A further nail-biting episode follows as the Mossad tries to discover the date on which Sadat’s attack is planned to take ...

History sometimes offers lessons from the past, and the Kursk offensive recalls a similarly daring move by Israel in the Yom ...

In 1973 they launched major offensives against Israel on the Jewish festival of Yom Kippur. The Egyptians drove the Israelis from the Suez Canal. FISK: The '73 war, the crossing of the Suez Canal ...

The Yom Kippur War was an armed conflict ... Egypt's initial objective in the war was to seize a foothold on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal and subsequently leverage these gains to negotiate ...

In the early 1950s, Egypt blocks Israeli ships from passing through the Suez Canal ... The war ends on June 10. On Oct. 6, Egypt and Syria jointly attack Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day ...

Egypt was home to one of the world's most important transportation systems: the Suez ... the war inspired Palestinian resistance movements, such as the PLO under Yasser Arafat. The Yom Kippur ...

Ed Karrens: It was the afternoon of October the 6th, the Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Yom ... War. The Jewish strategy was to make an all-out effort to regain the positions it had lost at the ...