Israeli Pows Yom Kippur War

Itamar barnea a fighter pilot and psychologist and professor avi ohry a doctor who specializes in rehabilitative medicine came together in.

Israeli pows yom kippur war. The war was initiated by egypt and syria on october 6 1973 on the jewish holy day of yom kippur and during ramadan the month of fasting in islam and it continued until october 26. Jewish israel israeli army military 1973 yom kippur war map armistice egypt. All these prisoners were exchanged during november 15 22 1973. 39 00 12 00 shipping.

After the six day war israel occupied half of syria s golan heights egypt s sinai peninsula and parts of jordan s west bank territory. In it he describes his experience as a pow in syria and. During the 1947 1949 palestine war defenders of a few communities were captured and forced to surrender to the enemy among others were soldiers from gush etzion and defenders of the jewish quarter. The war lasting until october 26 has gone down in israel s history as a failure which saw 2 688 idf soldiers killed thousands more wounded and hundreds captured.

In the yom kippur war 301 israelis were captured by syria and egypt 232 of whom by the egyptians 65 by the syrians and 4 by the lebanese the majority of them were captured in the first stage. Amnon sharon who was a tank commander for the idf during the yom kippur war of 1973 wrote a book entitled sane in damascus gefen. Jewish judaica israel israeli army idf booklet 1952 yom kippur sukkot new year. The yom kippur war was part of the arab israeli conflict that started during 1948 s israel declaration of independence and continues to date.

The yom kippur war ramadan war or october war hebrew. During the exchange both sides also swapped prisoners from the war of attrition. מלחמת יום הכיפורים milẖemet yom hakipurim or מלחמת יום כיפור milẖemet yom kipur. Israeli prisoners of war in egypt returned home in november 1973 but the pows captured in syria were not released until june 1974.

More than 1 000 tanks and. As a result the figures on slain pows given at the briefings in late 1973 were incomplete. Yom kippur war also called the october war the ramadan war or the fourth arab israeli war damaging inconclusive war and the fourth of the arab israeli wars. During the october 1973 yom kippur war egypt and syria took 293 israeli prisoners while israel captured 8 372 egyptians 392 syrians 13 iraqis and 6 moroccans.

Shahak and other yom kippur war pows including dr. حرب أكتوبر ḥarb ʾuktōbar or حرب تشرين ḥarb tišrīn also known as the 1973 arab israeli war was fought from 6 to 25 october 1973 by a coalition of arab states led by egypt.