Israel’s June 2025 campaign wasn’t a repeat of 1967, but it carried the same spirit of preemption, speed, and strategic transformation.

With a radar-guided R.530 missile and an unmatched climb rate, Israel’s Dassault Mirage III soared past the ceilings of ...

Yom Kippur in 1973 fell and was observed on Shabbat; they attacked on Shabbat. Simchat Torah 2023 (also the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War) fell and was observed on Shabbat; they attacked ...

The first time Israel was at war on Yom Kippur was during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. In 1973, Egypt and Syria surprised Israel by launching an attack on Yom Kippur.

If Yom Kippur demands one thing of us, it’s an acknowledgment of our fragile grasp on life. At the center of the holiday is a reading, Unetaneh Tokef, that imagines – literally – how any ...

On Yom Kippur in 1973, Egypt and Syria mounted a coordinated two-front attack in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights region in an attempt to regain the territories lost in the Six-Day War.

How Israel won, but lost, the Yom Kippur War Kaufman wisely begins with the 1967 Six Day War, in which Israel’s preemptive air attacks created quick victory, “but only because everything went ...

Undoubtedly, the sense of trauma associated with the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which was absent after 1967, as well as leadership intransigence contributed to the failure. At the same time, ideological ...

Before this horrific war between Israel and Hamas, there was one in 2021 — and 2014, and 2012 and 2008-9. Maybe we should start the story in 1967, when Israel seized Gaza along with East ...

In October 1973, on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria launched an attack in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The war lasted three weeks and ended with a ceasefire secured by the UN.

The Israel-Gaza war: On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants launched an unprecedented cross-border attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and taking civilian hostages.

Westra notes the conflict began almost to the day on the 50th-anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, which was a war between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. On October 13, we ...