American Jews were not sure how to respond. Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War — which broke out on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in 1973 and lasted for about three weeks — some of ...

National Affairs | Netanyahu once cited wartime focus as the reason to delay; his shifting arguments reveal deeper ...

Each generation has defining moments that give rise to the questions: “Where were you when…?” and “What was it like when…?” ...

Operation Badr, the name for the Egyptian opening attack of the Yom Kippur War in October 1973, was in some ways more damaging than the Hamas attack on October 7, in that its effects were entirely ...

Drawing on newly declassified documents that reveal the central role of energy in the unraveling of détente, Guy Laron explores how escalating energy crises in the 1970s transformed US-Soviet energy ...

Yom Kippur means Day of Atonement. It is the most sacred and solemn day in the Jewish calendar. Atonement means to put things right. That day is about people putting things right with God through ...