Word: yom
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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...
...picked up signs of gathering forces, but could not bring themselves to believe that the Arabs were actually going to attack. It was only ten hours before the assault began that Israel finally concluded that the Arabs meant business. By the time the attack came on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, the Israelis were mobilizing, but they were too late to prevent Arab advances. Syrian forces in the Golan Heights and Egyptian troops in the Sinai Peninsula smashed through Israeli lines and established powerful positions within the first minutes...
...surge of Egyptians was too much for the canal defenders, a thin band of regular-army forces reduced that weekend by Yom Kippur passes. "My God," said a radioman in one bunker reporting back to Israel's secondary defenses ten miles to the rear, "it's like the Chinese coming across." Another forward observer reported that "hundreds, thousands of Egyptians are swimming toward our fort. We need reinforcements quickly...
Tlas is popular with the armed forces in part because of his unflinching policy of retaliation against Israeli attacks. Since 1970 he and Assad have consistently favored a coordinated command with Egypt, a policy that led directly to the two-front assault on the occupied territories on Yom Kippur...
Just south of the Syrian border, incoming shelling forced us to turn into a base that had been overrun by the Syrians on Yom Kippur and retaken later by Israel. Syrian artillery and tank fire had left gaping holes in the concrete barracks, where clothing, boots and Playboy foldouts lay under the debris. The hospital was filled with injured Israeli soldiers. Surviving members of the base's original defenders were returning, still stunned by the Syrian attack. One said: "I can't begin to absorb what I have seen." Another bitterly remarked: "Our government was idiotic...