Israel's Wars & Operations: The 1973 Yom Kippur War*

Reference Information

• Background & Overview
  • U.S. State Department Summary of the War
• A Country Study of Egypt in 1973
• The Agranat Commission
• Broadcast to the Nation by PM Golda Meir
• IDF Army Radio Announcing Start of Yom Kippur War
• Israeli Intelligence in 1973
• Myths & Facts
• NSA Review Of Intelligence Failures In The Yom Kippur War
• Operation Nickel Grass
• The United States and the Oil Embargo
• The 1973 Arab-Israeli War: A Watershed for U.S. Middle East Policy

Important Battles

• War Maps
  • The Golan Heights
• The Air Raid on the Syrian General Command (10/9/1973)
• The Battle of Latakia (10/7/1973)

International Response

• British Foreign Office (FCO/17 1554)
• Soviet Position
• UNTSO Reports on Outbreak of Hostilities (October 6)
• United Nations Emergency Force Report
  • UN Security Resolution 338 (October 22)
  • UN Security Resolution 339 (October 23)
  • UN Security Resolution 340 (October 25)
  • UN Security Resolution 344 (December 15)
• U.S. Policy
  • U.S. Foreign Relations Documents (1969-1976)
  • Press Conference By U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (Oct 1973)

Cease-Fire & Armistice

• Israel Accepts the Cease-Fire (Oct 22)
• Egypt Accepts the Cease-Fire (Oct 23)
• Syria Accepts the Cease-Fire (Oct 23)
• Israeli PM Golda Meir on Cease-Fire (Oct 23)
• The Geneva Peace Confrence (December 1973)
  • Address at the Opening Meeting of the Geneva Peace Conference (December 1973) 
• Israel & Egypt Make Peace
  • The Six-Point Agreement (1973)
  • Separation of Forces Agreement - Sinai I (1974)
  • Interim Peace Agreement - Sinai II (1975)
  • Text of Final Peace Treaty with Egypt (1979)
• POW Exchanges
• Agreement on Disengagement of Forces Between Israel and Syria (1974)
• Separation of Forces Agreement Between Israel And Syria

War Maps of the Sinai (top) and Golan Height (left)