Frantzman reports from Israel's border with Syria in the Golan Heights. (Credit ... This was the site of a difficult battle during the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Yesterday, it was quiet, yet the ...

That last happened in the Yom Kippur War ... scene of pitched battles, the Golan is considered by the government to be a crucial asset for Israel’s national security. The heights overlook ...

The row of square grey forts slung across the horizon is a reminder of the days when Israel prepared for an onslaught by Syrian armoured divisions from the Golan Heights. That last happened in ...

Ed Karrens: It was the afternoon of October the 6th, the Jewish Holy Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur ... the Suez Canal and at Golan Heights, the two places where the war had started.

Israel captured the Golan Heights in 1967 after being attacked by Syria and neighboring states. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the sides reached a separation agreement that established a buffer ...

The Yom Kippur ... and the Golan Heights - both of which were occupied by Israel in 1967 - with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel. Egypt's initial objective in the war was to ...

But in the first 24 hours of the Yom Kippur War, thinly manned Israeli positions were overwhelmed along the Suez Canal in the southwest and the Golan Heights in the northeast. “Golda” frames ...

Yoram was killed in the Golan Heights on the second day of the Yom Kippur War, 7 October, 1973. Yoram’s younger brother, Ido, was 11 years old when Yoram was killed. He tells us about their ...

Fifty years after the Yom Kippur War — which broke ... borders of the Sinai Desert and Golan Heights, territories Israel had captured in the 1967 Six-Day War. “Israel was not prepared, in ...