Uri Kaufman is the author of the newly released book Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and the Making of the Modern Middle East (St. Martin’s Press). He lives in Lawrence, NY with his wife and four children.
Uri Kaufman
By Uri Kaufman
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1973 and 2023 — two massive Israeli government failures, and two moments when the Mideast's future changed forever
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