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A line of Israeli armored vehicles and tanks travels along a dusty road through a rocky landscape toward Syria during the Yom Kippur War. Partially collapsed stone mosque with a standing minaret, surrounded by rubble, sits in a dry landscape on the Golan Heights in Israel. Arab oil embargo
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Type Description Contributor Date
Add new Web site: Council on Foreign Relations - The October 1973 Yom Kippur War: Fifty Years Later. Jul 21, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Saturday Extra - The 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war. Apr 28, 2026
Add new Web site: American University, Washington, D.C. - 50 Years On: Explaining the Yom Kippur War. Jan 05, 2026
Add new Web site: The National Security Archive - The October War and U.S. Policy. Oct 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Office of the Historian - The 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Jul 09, 2025
Add new Web site: Hudson Institute - The Hidden Calculation behind the Yom Kippur War. May 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Stanford | Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies - The 1973 Yom Kippur War and Lessons for the Israel-Hamas Conflict. Mar 20, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC - The Documentary Podcast - October 1973: The war that changed everything. Feb 03, 2025
Add new Web site: Ohio State University - Origins - The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo. Sep 17, 2024
Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - The October 1973 War: How it led to the first Arab recognition of Israel. Jul 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Brookings - Israel�s 1973 October War: A 50-year perspective. May 28, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Israel's battle with Hamas recalls Yom Kippur War and its fateful effects. Dec 06, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - October 1973 War / Yom Kippur War / Ramadan War. Aug 15, 2023
Link and photo added. Apr 19, 2023
Add new Web site: The National Library of Israel - The Yom Kippur War. Mar 31, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The Arab-Israeli War of 1973. Dec 13, 2022
Article revised and updated. Oct 16, 2020
Clarified that Egypt's success in reestablishing a foothold on the east bank of the Suez Canal allowed Anwar Sadat to declare an Egyptian victory. Sep 23, 2020
Media added. Feb 15, 2018
Replaced photograph. Sep 22, 2017
New article added. Sep 23, 2008
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