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In October of 1973, Israel was fighting the Yom Kippur War with Egypt and Syria and Leonard Cohen decided to visit. His exact reasons have long been a mystery. Hearing him clarify them, you may wish they’d stayed that way. In an unpublished manuscript, the 39-year-old poet wrote he “wanted to go fight and die…
Henry Kissinger, America’s first Jewish secretary of state, is not too popular with supporters of the Jewish state. Some American Jews resent Kissinger for supposedly holding up arms for Israel during the Yom Kippur War, or for his unsavory comments about fellow Jews captured on Nixon’s Oval Office tapes. Some Israelis revile Kissinger for pressuring…
The Israeli television series “Valley of Tears,” now available on HBO, tells the story of the Yom Kippur War from the perspective of Israelis who fought it, and it’s prompting a national conversation about one of the most devastating chapters in the country’s history – both among those too young to remember it and the…
A few faces in Nathan Fendrich’s photos are familiar: then-general Ariel Sharon beams while surrounded by soldiers; Chaim Topol, the Israeli actor played Tevye in “Fiddler on the Roof.” But most of the subjects remain a mystery 45 years after he photographed them in the heat of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Fendrich, 84, donated…
On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War began. I was thirteen years old; still a child but old enough to form memories — of sirens so unexpectedly blowing, cars suddenly running along roads usually deserted to pedestrian synagogue goers and secular bike riders. Confusion. Should we turn on the radio? Should we descend to…
As an Israeli who fought at the age of 19 in 1973 Yom Kippur War and spent 35 years as a soldier and commander of the Israel Defense Forces, I have learned many lessons over the course of my lifetime about the price of war and the limits of what it can achieve. One lesson…
The family of an Israeli soldier killed in the Yom Kippur War discovered an empty grave after illegally exhuming the burial site. After its finding early Saturday morning at the Mount Herzl military cemetery, the family of Zion Tayeb called for the Israel Defense Forces to set up an independent investigation, the Walla news website…
Ariel Sharon in Knesset, preparing his speech for opening of summer session, May 7, 2001 / Getty Images Amid the outpouring of tributes to Ariel Sharon following his death, a few seem particularly noteworthy for their unexpected insights — some into the life and character of Sharon, others into the character of the writers. Chemi…
