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Yom Kippur War: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As October War • Fourth Arab-Israeli War • Ramadan War
Date October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973
Participants Egypt • Israel • Syria
Context Arab-Israeli wars

Photos

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.
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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
Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt
Ehud Barak
Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat
president of Egypt
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Ahmed Shafiq
prime minister of Egypt
Omar Suleiman, 2007.
Omar Suleiman
vice president of Egypt
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Hafiz al-Assad, President of Syria, shown in a black-and-white headshot wearing a suit and patterned tie, photographed in 1980.
Hafez al-Assad
president of Syria
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli soldier and statesman
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Ṣalāḥ Khalaf
Palestinian political activist
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David Elazar
Israeli military commander
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Aḥmad Ismāʿīl
Egyptian defense minister

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