On the Golan Heights, Israel braces for consequences from Syria civil war

Published on February 21, 2013

A fence made of chain links and rusted barbed wire once was enough to separate the Golan Heights from Syria. That's no longer the case.

Syria violating agreement with Israel, Ban tells U.N. Security Council

Published on December 4, 2012

The Syrian government is violating a 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Yom Kippur thoughts on war, peace, and the lessons of history

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on September 25, 2012

The war over the leak about the spy during the war

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on July 13, 2012

Israel’s fast, free and innovative way to save lives

Published on July 11, 2012

Minutes after the words “fainting in Mamilla Mall” appeared on his pager, paramedic Arie Jaffe was defibrillating the heart of a man lying on the floor of a Jerusalem pedestrian mall.

First Lebanon War: Marking 30 years, and the lessons learned

By Shmuel Rosner
Published on June 5, 2012

The pragmatists

By Rob Eshman
Published on April 25, 2012

Yehuda Avner arrived in Israel in 1947 from his native Manchester, England, as an idealistic religious Zionist. His keen intellect landed him a post in the foreign service, and his English proficiency almost guaranteed that he would be the designated note taker as he traveled with four prime ministers from the earliest days of the State to the aftermath of the Lebanon War.

No-show by Israeli officials upsets bereaved families

Published on October 10, 2011

The failure of government ministers to appear at a ceremony for casualties of the Yom Kippur War has riled the soldiers' families.

Israel Police on high alert ahead of Yom Kippur

Published on October 7, 2011

Israel Police have been holding talks with Israeli Arab representatives in bid to diffuse tensions ahead of Yom Kippur, after the burning of an Upper-Galilee mosque earlier this week. Police hope that calm will be restored in time for Yom Kippur on Saturday.

Israeli reservists called up for surprise pre-Yom Kippur drill

Published on October 6, 2011

The Israeli military called up reservists for a surprise drill on the 38th anniversary of the start of the Yom Kippur War.

Lessons of the Yom Kippur War

By Rob Eshman
Published on September 29, 2009

The Lessons We Learned in 1973

By Matt Nesvisky
Published on September 23, 2004

The Yom Kippur War: The Epic Encounter that Transformed the Middle East" by Abraham Rabinovich. (Schocken, $27.50). In a reflective moment toward the end of the Yom Kippur War, then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan told a confounded and confused Israeli Cabinet: "We generally understand these things a generation later.

These Soldiers We Remember

By Gaby Wenig
Published on April 22, 2004

Yigal Shaked warned his mother that if she told the enlisting officers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that he should be excused from service because of his asthma, he would never speak to her again.

Strategic Balance Favors Israel

By Leslie Susser
Published on October 2, 2003

Thirty years after the traumatic Yom Kippur War, Israel's military superiority over the Arabs is greater than ever.

That, at least, is the assessment of Tel Aviv University's prestigious Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. In its annual report, the think-tank cited the quality of Israel's weapons systems and the U.S.-led victory in Iraq as reasons for a major strategic shift in Israel's favor.

But the report acknowledged that Israel still faces major threats from terrorism and nonconventional weapons.

Yom Kippur II

By Eric Silver
Published on October 12, 2000

I first met Maurice Singer on the far bank of the Suez Canal during the second week of the Yom Kippur War, soon after Israel had counter-attacked across the waterway. The British-born, 28-year-old machine-gunner was grimy and sweating on his clanking, dust-encrusted half-track, the forerunner of today's armored personnel carrier. Like all his comrades, he scribbled a phone number and asked our group of reporters to let his family know he was okay.