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Our new animated historical documentary will cover the Yom Kippur war of 1973 also known as the Ramadan War or October War, specifically the Sinai Front where Egypt and Israel fought. Previously ...

Zvi Zamir, a former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whose warning that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Israel in 1973 was largely ignored by the government, has died at the age of 98.

Zvi Zamir, the former head of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, has died at 98. Despite warning the government in 1973 about an impending attack, his caution was ignored.

Israel has a tradition of reservists returning home from war to lead influential movements for change. One reserve captain, Moti Ashkenazi, began a lone protest a few months after the 1973 war.