Yom Kippur War

Israel's opposition shapes a narrative of authoritarianism - opinion

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition portrays him as a threat to democracy, stoking public anxiety over Israel’s future.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Christian Conference in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025
An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

Expert: Lessons, trauma from October 7 informing new West Bank land registration policy - interview

The former concentration camp Auschwitz

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  OneFamily group photo in Cyprus.

Concert unites community with music for OneFamily victims in Ra'anana


'The Stronghold': A story of IDF soldiers feeling abandoned at war - review

Besides the graphic violence that is an integral part of The Stronghold, this series could prove difficult for some viewers right now because of the emotions it might arouse.

 SCENES FROM the mini-series ‘The Stronghold.’

Yom Kippur veterans beseech: ‘Treat this whole country for trauma’

Those who fought in Israel’s most devastating war and suffered severe trauma ask authorities not to wait before they treat soldiers and civilians alike for psychological damage.

RAMI GERSHON as a soldier (right) and today.

Letter from Jerusalem, October 2023 - opinion

Write down your feelings, where you are every day and what is happening to you and your loved ones, dear readers. This time will be remembered forever, and we are living it.

 UNLIKE MANY households today, we still have a radio. Pictured: A 1937 family crowds around for updates.

Rows of tanks, closed shops: Israel's North prepares for war

“It feels exactly like the Yom Kippur War,” one man said to The Jerusalem Post. “There’s nothing to feel.”

 Israeli soldiers near the Israeli border with Lebanon, northern Israel, October 10, 2023.

Beit Loewenstein Rehabilitation Medical Center prepared to receive the wounded

The largest rehabilitation hospital in Israel is coordinating with the relevant state agencies to receive an influx of war patients

 An Israeli, one of three wounded in what an Israeli military spokesperson said was a shooting attack at an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank, is evacuated to a hospital in Jerusalem January 31, 2016.

Month of war: October's significance to Jewish, Israeli history

In terms of Jewish and Israeli history, October anniversaries have special meaning up to the present day, from Ben-Gurion's birthday to the Nuremberg Trials to the Yom Kippur War.

 An Israeli tank drives on a road following a mass infiltration by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip, near Sderot in southern Israel October 8, 2023

Israel is haunted by the ghosts of the Yom Kippur war in this attack - comment

The Yom Kippur War of 1973, exactly 50 years ago today, serves as an important point of reference in understanding the gravity of Israel’s recent oversight.

 The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. October 7, 2023.

The Yom Kippur War served as debut of religious units of soldiers - comment

It is even more difficult to distill the religious meaning of this war. 

 FOREVER SACRED: Yom Kippur War veterans, IDF soldiers, families, and friends gather at the memorial to those who fell in the 1973 Tel Saki battle, Sept. 27

What lessons did the Israel Air Force learn from the Yom Kippur War?

The war marks a 'before and after' for the Israeli air force, which continues to apply its lessons to today's changing landscape.

 Israeli soldiers during the Yom Kippur War.

Newly released documents detail how Israel won the seas in Yom Kippur War

New details have emerged regarding Israel's maritime success during the Yom Kippur War.

THE DESTROYER ‘Eilat,’ first victim of the naval missile age.