Sponsored by Aish.com: In 1973, a cease-fire resolution was passed by the U.N. Security Council to halt the Yom Kippur War. Shuttle diplomacy by Henry Kissinger compelled Israel and Egypt to accept the cease-fire. Fighting, however, would continue for another four days. In the war, Israel suffered the loss of 2,600 soldiers and 800 tanks. Four years later, Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat would visit...
Today in Jewish History – Tishrei 20
Sponsored by Aish: In 1973, Israeli forces crossed to the western side of the Suez Canal in a decisive battle of the Yom Kippur War. A division led by Ariel Sharon had attacked a weak point in the Egyptian “seam line” between the Egyptian second Army in the north and the Egyptian third Army in the south. In some of the most brutal fighting of the war, the Israelis opened a hole in the...
Declassified CIA Documents Point to Killers of Israeli Military Attache in Washington in 1973
From Declassified CIA Documents Point to Killers of Israeli Military Attache in Washington in 1973: On July 1, 1973, Col. Yosef Alon – a charismatic former fighter pilot and the assistant air and naval attache at Israel’s Embassy in Washington – was gunned down in his suburban Maryland driveway. Recently declassified CIA documents, Alon’s voluminous FBI case file, and...
U.S. Admits Arafat Murdered American Officials
From U.S. Admits Arafat Murdered American Officials: After 33 years, the U.S. State Department has finally declassified a document admitting it knew that the murder of two U.S. diplomats in Sudan in 1973 “was planned and carried out with the full knowledge and personal approval” of PLO leader Yasser Arafat. In the attack on March 1, 1973, eight members of the Black September terrorist...