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Yom Kippur War

Maj. Gen. Eli Zeira in an undated photo (Israel Defense Forces)
December 20, 2025, 7:20 am
How onetime rising IDF star Eli Zeira’s repeat miscalculations cost his country and career
Dead last month at 97, military intelligence chief was regarded by critics as over-confident and obdurate, but cost of his arrogance was only recognized when it was too late, hours before Yom Kippur War
By Abraham Rabinovich
Former IDF Military Intelligence Directorate chief Eli Zeira, July 16 2012. (Flash90)
November 21, 2025, 5:35 pm
Eli Zeira, Yom Kippur War intel chief who assessed Egypt and Syria wouldn’t attack, dies at 97
Zeira, whose dismissal of warnings before the 1973 war left Israel blindsided, became one of the most controversial figures in the nation’s military and intelligence history
By Emanuel Fabian and Stav Levaton
Dr. David Senesh, a clinical psychologist specialized in intergenerational trauma, is a former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war and the nephew of Zionist poet Hannah Senesh. (Courtesy)
October 27, 2025, 5:54 am
Raised in Hannah Senesh’s shadow, an ex-POW says Israel must finally face its demons
Leaving Israel for Berlin, David Senesh, a clinical psychologist dealing with intergenerational trauma, says hostages, and country, can only process and heal once cycle of crises ends
By Rossella Tercatin
Brig. Gen. (res.) Giora Even Epstein (IDF)
July 19, 2025, 5:11 pm
‘Ace of aces’: Giora Even Epstein, Israel’s most decorated fighter pilot, dies aged 87
‘Hawkeye’ Epstein was the world’s top fighter jet pilot of the supersonic era, shot down 17 Egyptian aircraft during his IAF career
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Nathan Eshel at a meeting in the Knesset on May 20, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
June 27, 2025, 12:30 pm
A Netanyahu ally tells ToI no one will remember Oct. 7 by election time. He may be right
A triumphant narrative is being carefully crafted by the PM’s inner circle to fully clear him of responsibility for the disaster, as he systematically removes all ties to it
By Shalom Yerushalmi
An undated photo of the POW group who together translated 'The Hobbit' into Hebrew prior to their release from an Egyptian prison in November 1973. (courtesy)
April 16, 2025, 9:44 pm
What Matters Now to Israel Story’s Mitch Ginsburg: A 1973 exodus from Egypt
ToI’s former military reporter brings us a full episode of ‘The Hebrew Hobbit,’ the journey of Israeli POWs who went there and back again before their release after the Yom Kippur War
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Yom Kippur War veteran Eyal Yaffe arrives for a court hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, March 29, 2025, after he was arrested on suspicion of harassing a border policewoman during a protest in Jerusalem. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 30, 2025, 1:25 pm
Protester remanded in custody on suspicion of ‘indecent act’ against female cop
Police find several illegal weapons dating to 1970s at home of Eyal Yaffe, whose lawyer says they’re ‘family mementos,’ unconnected to client’s protest activism
By ToI Staff
The rotor head of an IAF helicopter that crashed in Syria on April 27, 1974, is recovered by Israeli troops, in a handout photo issued on December 23, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 23, 2024, 1:15 pm
IDF troops in Syria find part of Israeli helicopter that crashed in 1974
Rotor head of Super Frelon chopper involved in Yom Kippur War crash recovered, 50 years after all six crew members were killed during rescue mission
By Emanuel Fabian
Yitzhak Rabin, left, and Shimon Peres, right, going to voting room in Tel Aviv on April 22, 1974 before Labor Party central committee chose Rabin over Peres to form a new government. (AP Photo/Nash)
November 13, 2024, 7:10 pm
In newly released 1974 recording, Rabin pushes for diplomacy alongside military power
On Hebrew anniversary of assassination, Defense Ministry releases audio from IDF meeting in which late PM says calm cannot be achieved through war alone
By ToI Staff
Author Haim Be'er at his home in Ramat Gan, October 6, 2024. (Tamar Mor Sela)
October 20, 2024, 7:05 am
Haim Be’er believes, in perfect faith, that change is coming for Israel, but it may tarry
Despite eulogizing Zionism, the 79-year-old literary icon urges public to transcend social divides between right and left, religious and secular, and acknowledge limitations of power
By Tamar Mor Sela
The empty streets in Tel Aviv, on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays. October 11, 2024. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
October 11, 2024, 7:30 pm
Israel, on high alert, marks Yom Kippur amid war for first time since 1973
Israel shuts down for Holy Day, but residents urged to employ special alert systems in place; 120 rockets fired at start of holiday; war-zone soldiers instructed not to fast
By ToI Staff
Aharona Sadan. (Dafna Talmon)
May 20, 2024, 1:07 am
Uprooted: Aharona Sadan, 77, from Kibbutz Dafna. This is her story
Aharona Sadan, retired mother of four who evacuated to Givatayim and Tiberias before returning to Dafna ● This is her story
By Tamar Mor Sela
Amnon Sharon painting some of his clay sculptures depicting the torture he underwent as a prisoner of war in Syria, October 1973-June 1974. (Courtesy of Israel Disabled Veterans Organization)
March 18, 2024, 3:39 pm
Israeli survivor of captivity and torture in Syria exorcises his demons by sculpting clay
Former Yom Kippur War prisoner of war Amnon Sharon shares his experiences living ‘alongside PTSD,’ criticizes public activism for release of hostages in Gaza
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Zvi Zamir speaks at a memorial service marking 21 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2024, 9:07 am
Zvi Zamir, the man who sounded the alarm in 1973, is dead at 98
As Mossad chief, Zamir spearheaded the post-Munich campaign against Palestinian terror in Europe and warned, at the midnight hour, that the Yom Kippur War was breaking out
By Mitch Ginsburg
An 'Eretz Nehederet' skit on November 21, 2023, with Mariano Idelman as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Yuval Semo as former prime minister Golda Meir (Courtesy)
November 24, 2023, 8:30 am
‘Your debacle has eclipsed mine’: Golda’s ghost haunts PM in satire skit
‘Eretz Nehederet’ depicts ex-PM, seen as responsible for Yom Kippur War, thanking Netanyahu for replacing her as premier most associated with worst intel failure in Israeli history
By Jessica Steinberg
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