Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that the Middle East is in the most severe turmoil since the Yom Kippur War in 1973 when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has issued a stark warning - stating that the Middle East is in the most severe turmoil since the Yom Kippur War …
It was 50 years ago, on 6 October, and I was a nine-year-old boy running around in the New Haven synagogue in Connecticut where my father was the rabbi when I came upon a group of men huddled in a corner. open image in gallery Israel’s defence minister Moshe Dayan at the battlefront during the Yom Kippur war It took …
The deadliest fighting in 50 years continued in southern Israel for a second day as Israeli Defence Forces sought to regain control of areas infiltrated on Saturday by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip. Those images — and the mounting death toll — come 50 years and a day after invading forces from Egypt and Syria caught Israel by surprise …
JERUSALEM — Israeli life came to a standstill on Wednesday as Jews marked the beginning of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and the most solemn point on their calendar, at sundown. The Jewish High Holidays are taking place as Israel is in the grip of a fourth wave of coronavirus infections, with new daily cases at all-time highs since …