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Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at the Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem. Nov. 4, 2016. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Former Mossad chief Zvi Zamir dies at 98

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Zvi Zamir, the fourth director of Israel's Mossad national intelligence agency, died in Tel Aviv on Jan. 2. He was 98 years old. Born Zvicka Zarzevsky in 1925 in Lodz, Poland, Zamir immigrated to Israel...
Henry Kissinger discusses the Vietnam War at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. Photo by Marsha Miller/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Kissinger denies holding back resupply during Yom Kippur War

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Henry Kissinger, who served as national security advisor and secretary of state during the Nixon and Ford administrations, denied that he intentionally delayed critically needed military supplies to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur...
A sukkah on an Israeli army vehicle in the Golan during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Photo by Nathan Fendrich, Courtesy of the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at National Library of Israel.

National Library of Israel releases rare photographs of Sukkot during 1973 war

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Nearly 50 years after the Yom Kippur War, the National Library of Israel has released a number of rare photos showing how the festival of Sukkot, or “Feast of Tabernacles,” was celebrated during the conflict, even...
British actress Helen Miren meets with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat at City Hall, June 22, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Helen Mirren to portray Golda Meir in new film on Yom Kippur War

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Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren will play the role of iconic Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in an upcoming biographical film Golda. The movie will be directed by Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv. Production is...
Golda Meir, London, 1973. Public Domain, via Flickr

December 8, 1978: Golda Meir, Labor Zionist leader, diplomat and fourth Prime Minister of...

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In October 1973, the State of Israel was caught off-guard by a ruthless surprise assault on two fronts by the Egyptian and Syrian armies, supported by half-a-dozen additional Arab countries. The first lines of...
“Valley of Tears” (“Sha’at Ne’ila”), the Kan-produced, HBO Max-purchased TV series on the Yom Kippur War. Source: YouTube/Screenshot.

Israeli TV hit shines light on only female soldier killed in Yom Kippur War

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“Valley of Tears,” a 10-part Israeli TV series on the Yom Kippur War has generated renewed interest in the 1973 national trauma. HBO Max acquired world rights for the series, which focuses on the...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers who fell during the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on Oct. 10, 2019. Photo by Flash90.

Netanyahu: ‘Israel will defend itself, by itself, against any threat’

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Israel will never rely on other countries for its defense, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, warning Iran that it would not ignore its threats of destruction. Netanyahu, who spoke at the Hall...
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks during the ceremony marking Remembrance Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and victims of terror, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on May 7, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

IDF chief says if attacked, Israel will respond with force

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The Israel Defense Forces had successfully dealt with many security challenges over the past year, “in both nearby and far-off arenas,” Israel Defense Forces’ Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Monday,...
Avigdor Kahalani speaks at the Moskowitz Prize for Zionism ceremony in Jerusalem. May 29, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

IDF commander who saved the Golan Heights from the Syrians has a message for...

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If ever there was a counterpart to the biblical story of young David facing Goliath, the Yom Kippur War was just that. Avigdor Kahalani, now 74 and a modern-day David, was commander of a...
Israel Defense Force officers visit the site where a terror tunnel was exposed at Israel's Kerem Shalom border crossing with Gaza. Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

‘We don’t want a repeat of Yom Kippur War catastrophe’

Israel Defense Forces’ Ombudsman Maj. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak Brick urged the Knesset on Wednesday to name an investigative committee to probe what he called “serious problems with the IDF’s organizational culture.” Speaking before a Knesset...