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Arab-Israeli wars: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Israeli-Arab wars
Date 1973 • 1948 - 1949 • 1956 • 1982 • 1967
Location Egypt • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Syria
Participants Egypt • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Syria

Photos and Videos

Six-Day War in the Golan Heights
Map showing the United Nations partition plan for Palestine adopted in 1947, with areas color-coded to indicate proposed Jewish state, Arab state, and a separate Jerusalem district. The map includes key cities and regions, borders with Lebanon, Syria, Transjordan, and Egypt, and highlights the Mediterranean coast.
British soldiers stand in front of a large crowd of civilians waiting for food distribution in the Arab quarter of Port Said, Egypt, with damaged buildings and rubble in the background.
Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles enter a city street in Gaza during the Six-Day War, June 6, 1967, with street signs and buildings visible in the background.
Partially collapsed stone mosque with a standing minaret, surrounded by rubble, sits in a dry landscape on the Golan Heights in Israel.
A man walks through a street filled with rubble and debris, surrounded by heavily damaged and partially collapsed buildings in Beirut after the 2006 bombing.
Beirut: rescue workers search the rubble of a bombed building
A distressed young woman sits at a picnic table with her head in her hand as Israeli rescue workers attend to her and others after a rocket attack in Tel Aviv at night.
People walk through widespread rubble and destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza Strip, after an Israeli airstrike, with damaged cityscape in the background.
Large group of Palestinian refugees, including women and children, gathered outside a building with tents and shelters spread across the landscape in the background during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Timeline

Israeli soldiers and armored vehicles enter a city street in Gaza during the Six-Day War, June 6, 1967, with street signs and buildings visible in the background.
Six-Day War
June 5, 1967 - June 10, 1967
Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur War
October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973

Key People

Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
prime minister of Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog
president of Israel
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Aḥmad Ismāʿīl
Egyptian defense minister
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Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Munʿim Riyāḍ
Egyptian military officer

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