Yom Kippur war

Golda Meir’s motherly attention to the soldiers and officers were well known. The picture shows Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir visits a wounded soldier in the hospital during the Yom Kippur war.
(Photo credit: Chananiah Herman/ GPO)
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1973, Yom Kippur War

Forty years after the Yom Kippur War,  that cost over 2,500 Israeli lives
The war itself, a stunning military victory, which ended with Israeli forces in control of more territory than at the onset and perched a mere 30 and 50 miles from Damascus and Cairo respectively.