Results for “Yom Kippur”

…ment in Palo Alto at 4:30 in the morning. We had been in the US for barely six weeks. It was the Sixth of October 1973: Yom Kippur, the holiest date on the Jewish calendar. I was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at a get-to-know-you event for some of the...

been different in each of them. In the Yom Kippur War, the problem was not just Eli Zeira’s failure to activate the sayeret’s listening devices in Eygpt, deeply damaging though that was. It was judgement. Inside Aman, a kind of groupthink had taken hold. It was rooted in a confid...

Chapter Eleven Yet despite Entebbe, the trauma of the Yom Kippur War, and the cracks it had shaken loose in Israeli society and politics, were yet to play themselves out. The hostage rescue was like a sugar rush, an intoxicating reminder that the army still had the capacity for...

Chapter Eleven Yet despite Entebbe, the trauma of the Yom Kippur War, and the cracks it had shaken loose in Israeli society and politics, were yet to play themselves out. The hostage rescue was like a sugar rush, an intoxicating reminder that the army still had the capacity for...

…gence warnings. But it went deeper than that. Sobering though it was, I had to accept that — no less so than before the Yom Kippur War in 1973 — I and many others had for too long been comforting ourselves with a fundamental misconception about our military occupation and civilia...

…t’ military coup. 12 March 1971 Hafez al-Assad is elected President of Syria in a referendum. 6 October 1973 October or Yom Kippur War. Egypt and Syria attack Israeli forces in the Sinai and the Golan Heights. 17 October 1973 OAPEC decides on an oil embargo. 22 October 1973 UN Se...

… gave as an example of religious accommodations “a Jewish student [asking] his teacher for permission to be excused for Yom Kippur.” Yet this was one of the decisions miscited by Justice O’Connor as containing statements to the effect that this is a Christian nation.” When her l...

…ller hat. Justice Goldberg also asked my advice about whether he should sit on the opening day of Court, which fell on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, during which all work is prohibited. I looked at the calendar of cases to be argued that day and noted that...

…ttracts the world's smartest people to his home." Last September, with Siegal's help, Epstein hosted a Break Fast after Yom Kippur. A group of 120 friends brought their children over for a buffet dinner This was just a few months after he finished his prison obligations in Florid...

… 1991. I got up even earlier than usual, to visit the graves of the men who had lost their lives in my battalion in the Yom Kippur War. I also went to pay my respects to Uzi Yairi, killed when he’d rushed from his desk in the kiryva to join the Sayeret Matkal attack at the Savoy...

…y needed to sue for peace, and that there was no particular urgency on our part to do anything more than wait. Then, on Yom Kippur 1973, all of that had been turned on its head. We had not only learned the lessons, of 1973. We had internalized them. Even had we not known of the d...

… as when Ben-Gurion accepted the partition plan in 1947; the declaration of the state; or the most tense moments of the Yom Kippur War,” I said. “Or the decisions which Begin took in this same place.” Of course, Begin hadn’t even been willing to enter into discussion on Jerusalem...

…f Delaware and Syracuse Law School. One of his first overseas visits as a senator was to Israel, on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur War during which he met GoIda Meir. "She read letters and told me how this young man or woman had died and this is their family. This went on for I d...

…er, drive or work on Shabas, eat anything on fast days, marry a non-Jew, eat ice cream after a hot dog, wear leather on Yom Kippur, talk after washing your hands but before making a “motzie” and eating the challah. My grandmother—the enforcer—had a favorite Yiddish word: “meturn...

…or the earth to part. But he told his supporters: “Even though Labour has won these elections, after something like the Yom Kippur War happens to a country, and to a government, they must lose power. They wi// lose power.” He was right. Only twice in the four decades that followe...