The Yom Kippur War, also known as the October War, occured in 1973. Egypt's president at the time, Anwar Sadat, brought up the possibility of an agreement that involved Israel giving up land. Israel never accepted the agreement, and Sadat started threatening war for over a year. On Yom Kippur in 1973 (October 6th), Egyptian and Syrian armies attacked Israel and they knew because everyone was praying on the most important holiday of the year, the forces would be down. Up to 14 countries were against Israel in this war, and Israel was extremely outnumbered. The United States tried to send help, but the help failed. On October 22nd, only 16 days later, the U.N. ordered everyone to stop fighting immediately. Although Israel didn't lose the war, the Israelis still considered the war a failure. A total of 2688 Israeli soldiers were killed, and 7250 soldiers were wounded.

This is yet another war that Israel has survived when all the odds were against them, and it really amazes me how Israel keeps surviving. I had never heard of this war before today, and it's kind of like the Six Day war because it happened in such a short amount of time.

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