Word: yom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later, near a battered fort, we spied the only flag we had seen all day, a shredded, blue and white Star of David. Commanding the fort was a young lieutenant from Tel Aviv. Leaning against a bunker, he reflected bitterly: "Back home they call this 'the Yom Kippur war' or 'the war of the Day of Judgment.' I call it 'the meaningless war.' There's no point to it. We are fighting it because the Arabs started it. We are just pounding each other to hell, causing a lot of casualties, breaking each...
David is receiving Goliath-like contributions. Israel Bonds, which normally collects about $25 million on Yom Kippur, doubled that figure this year. Since the outbreak of war, $175 million has been pledged, of which $100 million has already been given in cash. At a meeting last week between officials of Israel Bonds and Israel Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, a goal of $642 million was set for March 1974. The United Jewish Appeal announced a campaign to raise $750 million for Israel; the U.J.A. of Greater New York collected $25 million in one 48-hour period in the first week...
...base synagogue had been desecrated by the 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...
...Arab onslaught, to be sure, was no Pearl Harbor. Israel's intelligence agents alerted the government several days before the invasion that the Arabs planned to attack. Israel's aircraft were not caught on the ground nor were its front-line troops dozing. In the weeks before Yom Kippur, Israeli intelligence had carefully monitored the buildup of Egyptian and Syrian troops. Yet Israel's intelligence organization, which won world respect with its almost uncanny ability to uncover Arab plans over the years and whose officials boasted that "Israeli intelligence is the best in the world," obviously failed...
Even if Israel had been more alarmed, however, its options were limited. During the week before Yom Kippur, at a cabinet meeting called to discuss the Arab buildup, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan urged that Israel begin mobilization. That would have been a first step toward Israel's launching a pre-emptive first strike against the Arabs. The U.S. government opposed such a move, as did Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir. They were wary of Dayan's aggressive plan because they concluded that such an attack would infuriate world opinion, leaving Israel open...