Yom Kippur War

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Also Known As	October War • Fourth Arab-Israeli War • Ramadan War
Date	October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973
Participants	Egypt • Israel • Syria
Context	Arab-Israeli wars

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Israel: The Yom Kippur War

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Six-Day War

June 5, 1967 - June 10, 1967

Yom Kippur War

October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973

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Ariel Sharon

prime minister of Israel

Hosni Mubarak

president of Egypt

Anwar Sadat

president of Egypt

Golda Meir

prime minister of Israel

Omar Suleiman

vice president of Egypt

Moshe Dayan

Israeli statesman

Hafez al-Assad

president of Syria

Ahmed Shafiq

prime minister of Egypt

Ṣalāḥ Khalaf

Palestinian political activist

David Elazar

Israeli military commander

Aḥmad Ismāʿīl

Egyptian defense minister

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