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- Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt
How To Use Yom Kippur War In A Sentence
- Last month, one driver pulled down the neck of his shirt and pulled up the leg of one of his pants to reveal two wounds sustained in the so-called Yom Kippur war. Freddy Deknatel: Cairo Cabs and Conversation
- Hezbolla have even been pressing into service Russian-made "Sagger" wire-guided missiles – which caused such great slaughter of Israeli tanks during the Yom Kippur war – and even captured (or purchased) US TOW missiles. The wrong kind of war
- The classic example is the use of SAMs by the Egyptians and Syrians in the 1973 Yom Kippur war to attrit Israeli airpower and interfere with its ability to support the ground defensive fighting by the Israeli Army. Matthew Yglesias » A Piece of the Action
