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Arab Israeli War 1973 (Yom Kippur War Documentary)
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Get Nebula with 40% off annual subscription with my link: https://go.nebula.tv/realtimehistory Watch Red Atoms on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/redatoms On October 6, 1973, Israelis celebrating the holiday of Yom Kippur are shocked by news of a mass two front attack in the Sinai and Golan Heights. Egypt and Syria, two nations still reeling from their humiliating defeat by Israel in 1967, smash through Israeli defenses. » SUPPORT US   / realtimehistory   https://nebula.tv/realtimehistory » THANK YOU TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Rose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Jim Frame, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Adan, Avraham, On the Banks of the Suez: An Israeli General's Personal Account of the Yom Kippur War (San Rafael, CA : Presidio Press, 1980) Asher, Dani, The Egyptian Strategy for the Yom Kippur War (Jefferson, NC : Mcfarland and Company, 2003) Asher, Jerry, Duel for the Golan: the 100-Hour Battle that Saved Israel, (New York, NY : W. Morrow, 1987) Brook, Itzhak, In the Sands of Sinai: A Physician’s Account of the Yom Kippur War, (Washington D.C : Itzhak Brook, 2011) Gilbert, Martin, The Routledge Atlas of The Arab-Israeli Conflict (London : Routledge, 2005) Goren, Amit. "וחושך על פני תהום", (Amit Goren Productions Ltd. for the Israel Broadcasting Authority) Kahana, Ephraim, “Early warning versus concept: the case of the Yom Kippur War 1973” Intelligence and National Security, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2010) Khalidi, Ahmed, “The War of Attrition” Institute for Palestine Studies, Volume 3, Issue 1 (1973) Laqueur, Walter, The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict, (New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2016) Kaufmann, Uri, Eighteen Days in October: The Yom Kippur War and How It Created the Modern Middle East, (New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2023) League of Arab States (1967) "Israel-Arab Peace Process: The Khartoum Resolutions." Jewish Virtual Library, (2025) http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/j... Meek, Steven, The Illusion of Defeat: Egyptian Strategic Thinking and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Fort Leavenworth, KS : School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College, 2016) Nowland, Mark, Eliminating the Rhetoric: An Evaluation of the Halt-Phase Strategy, (Montgomery, AL : Air University Press, 2001) O’Ballance, Edgar, No Victor, No Vanquished, (San Rafael, CA : Presidio Press, 1978) Rabinovich, Abraham, The Yom Kippur War: the Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East, (New York, NY : Schocken Books, 2004) Riedel, Bruce, Enigma: The Anatomy of Israel’s Intelligence Failure Almost 45 Years Ago, Brookings Institute, (2017) Shazly, Saad, The Crossing of The Suez, (San Francisco, CA : American Mideast Research, 1980) Tsoref, Hagai, Golda Meir’s Leadership in The Yom Kippur War, Israel Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, 23:1 (2018) »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Mark Newton Director: Toni Steller Editing: Toni Steller Motion Design: Toni Steller Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Michael Adato, Mark Newton, Florian Wittig Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Simon Buckmaster Contains licensed material by getty images, picture alliance and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 Music Library: Epidemic Sound All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025

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