Word: sukkoth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting started on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the most solemn moment in the Jewish religious year, and it continued beyond Sukkoth, the Feast of Tabernacles, when Jews traditionally celebrate Moses' passage through the Sinai desert 3,300 years...
...address to the Israeli nation, Premier Golda Meir showed none of the customary joy that accompanies the Sukkoth festival. "The main thing," she said somberly, "is to conclude the war and conclude it with our victory." General Aharon Yariv, the Six-Day War's intelligence chief, who had been called back to active duty, declared: "It is not going to be a short war. The people of Israel can expect no early and elegant victories. We will have to do a lot of fighting." Or, as Major General Shmuel Gonen, commander of the southern front, said more succinctly: "This...
...session. The Allenby Bridge from Jordan was kept open to traffic, and, after briefly shutting down, Lod Airport was opened to international traffic. But as the fighting went on, civilian morale began to sag. "Oh God," said a housewife in Jerusalem last week as she went about preparations for Sukkoth, "we thought that this war would last for only two days...
...Syrians on Yom Kippur. Torahs and prayer books were ripped apart and riddled by bullets. But the Israelis had already installed a new set of Torahs and were distributing leaflets from the chief military rabbi instructing them that on Thursday's and Friday's holiday of Sukkoth-a normally joyous celebration of a bountiful harvest-the soldiers were to pray for the army...
...very confusion of the situations in both Cairo and Amman might also keep all sides too busy to start anything. That at least is what Jerusalem hopes. For the moment, Israel's mood is relaxed; the nation last week celebrated the harvest feast of Sukkoth. The top news on Radio Israel, with a cease-fire in effect, was not battle casualties but the early arrival of the winter rains...