Entrepreneur Uzy Zwebner looks on after being interviewed by Reuters about his brother Yonti who was killed fighting the Egyptians in the Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in his apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Entrepreneur Uzy Zwebner looks at pictures of his brother Yonti who was killed fighting the Egyptians in the Sinai during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, in his apartment in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 20, 2023. REUTERS/Amir Cohen 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett carries a wreath as he attends a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a memorial ceremony of the 48th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, September 19, 2021. Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool via REUTERS 

Israeli-Arab stone throwers walk on the street after clashes erupted in Acre October 9, 2008. Israeli police closed off the northern coastal city of Acre on Thursday when clashes erupted for the second time in a day between Jews and Arabs. Main roads were barred and Israeli helicopters flew over the ancient port, where violence erupted at midnight Wednesday on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (ISRAEL) 

Israeli-Arabs hold stones after clashes erupted in Acre October 9, 2008. Israeli police closed off the northern coastal city of Acre on Thursday when clashes erupted for the second time in a day between Jews and Arabs. Main roads were barred and Israeli helicopters flew over the ancient port, where violence erupted at midnight Wednesday on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (ISRAEL) 

An Israeli man mourns at the graves of soldiers who were killed in the
Yom Kippur War in 1973, at Jerusalem's Har Herzel Military Cemetery
September 17, 2002.Israeli tanks and troops swept through the outskirts
of a city in the southern Gaza Strip destroying metal workshops
suspected of being arms factories and arresting 23 Palestinians.
REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

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ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON POSES WITH ISRAELI SHOOL CHILDREN
AS HE ARRIVES FOR A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE YOM
KIPPUR WAR. 

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER ARIEL SHARON STANDS IN SILENCE DURING A MEMORIAL
SERVICE FOR SOLDIERS KILLED IN THE YOM KIPPUR WAR. 

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attends the annual memorial
ceremony for fallen Israeil paratroopers killed in wars against Israel
in the last fifty years at Tel Nof memorial site near Tel Aviv
September 12, 2002. The soldiers are remembered at this time every year
a few days before Yom Kippur, the twenty-four hour Jewish holiday of
fasting and repentence. REUTERS/Gil Cohen Magen

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Amos Ben-Yosef, 65, an Israeli veteran stand on his Syrian tank in his backyard April 22, 2001, in Pardes Hanna central Israel. Ben-Yosef said the Syrian tank he got is more than 25-year-old, is a Russian made T-62 tank that the Syrians had used in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He got the idea to add the tank to his collection of tractors, more than a year ago when he saw a television program on tanks.

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Amos Ben-Yosef, 65, an Israeli veteran stand on his Syrian tank in his backyard April 22, 2001, in Pardes Hanna central Israel. Ben-Yosef said the Syrian tank he got is more than 25-year-old, is a Russian made T-62 tank that the Syrians had used in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He got the idea to add the tank to his collection of tractors more than a year ago when he saw a television program on tanks.

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Amos Ben-Yosef, 65, an Israeli veteran stand on his Syrian tank in his backyard April 22, 2001, in Pardes Hanna central Israel. Ben-Yosef said the Syrian tank he got is more than 25-year-old, is a Russian made T-62 tank that the Syrians had used in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. He got the idea to add the tank to his collection of tractors more than a year ago when he saw a television program on tanks.

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A Jewish woman weeps over the grave of a family member who fell in the 1973 Yom Kippur War as she visits the Mt. Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem October 10, 2000. Israel was attacked and caught off guard in the Yom Kippur War and lost 2,700 of its soldiers when attacked by Syria and Egypt. Yom Kippur ended at sundown yesterday.

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Israeli Prime Minster Ehud Barak frowns next to his wife Nava (L) as he attends a memorial service for soldiers killed in the Yom Kippur War in 1973, at Jerusalem's Har Herzel Military Cemetery October 10, 2000. Feeling international pressure, Barak on Tuesday gave his Palestinian counterpart Yasser Arafat more time to quell raging violence that has left 88 people dead over 12 days.

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Holocaust survivor Josef Enzel, who was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, speaks to Reuters late December 14, about his 21 years as a resident on the Golan Heights and what it would mean to have to leave his home should Israel and Syrian make a full peace. Enzel, 78, survived the "Death March" and six years in nazi concentration camps and settled on the Golan Heights. His son fought on the Golan in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. [Enzel said that Hitler drove him out of his home once and he couldn't imagine having to do it again at his age].
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An Israeli soldier on top of a tank on the Golan Heights December 15, behind a pock-marked building in a former Syrian town that was damaged in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 in the cental part of the Golan Heights. The Israeli army uses much of the Golan Heights as training areas for its armoured divisions. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara begin their historic meeting today to establish the framework for a comprehensive peace and the possible return of all or part of the Golan heights, the key issue in their formula for peace.

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Holocaust survivor Josef Enzel, who was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp, speaks to Reuters late December 14, about his 21 years as a resident on the Golan Heights and what it would mean to have to leave his home should Israel and Syrian make a full peace. Enzel, 78, survived the "Death March" and six years in nazi concentration camps and settled on the Golan Heights. His son fought on the Golan in the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Enzel said that Hitler drove him out of his home once and he couldn't imagine having to do it again at his age.

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A group of Japanese tourists visiting the Golan Heights on Saturday December 11 read information about the Yom Kippur War provided on signposts as they look over the partially deserted Syrian town of Kuneitra (Unseen, below, left) from a high vantage point on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak travels to Washington for a two-day meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk a-Shara later this week in the highest-ever level of talks between the two countries.

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Prime Minister Ehud Barak bows his head after laying a wreath in memory to Israel's fallen soldiers in the 1973 Yom Kippur War during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the war held September 21 in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. At left is a torch in an up-side-down soldiers helmet that was lit by a relative of a fallen soldier.
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Prime Minister Ehud Barak bows his head after laying a wreath in memory to Israel's fallen soldiers in the 1973 Yom Kippur War during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the war held September 21 in Jerusalem's Mount Herzl Military Cemetery. At left is a torch in an up-side-down soldiers helmet that was lit by a relative of a fallen soldier. jwh.

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Rivka Moscowitch (2nd, L), the widow of Yaacov Moscowitch, is comforted by family members Esti and Tzila (R) and friend Talma (L) during a memorial ceremony on Mount Herzl Military Cemetery marking the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, September 21. Yaacov Moscowitch was 26 when he was killed at the Suez Canal. Tzila, Yaacov's sister, is comforted by Esti (2nd from R) who married Yaacov and Rivka's son. The four women are standing over Yaacov's grave during a tearful memorial service attended by Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Israel's most decorated soldier, who during the Yom Kippur War served in a special forces unit and was decorated for going behind enemy lines and saving a wounded soldier.

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Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) consoles Zeev Altiger, the father of the late Capt. Meron Altiger, who lost his life in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as a ceremony honoring Israel's fallen soldier during the Yom Kippur War comes to a close at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery, September 21. Barak, who leaves immediately for Berlin and then Paris, spoke at the ceremony about the need to renew peace talks with Syria. Barak will be the first foreign leader to visit Berlin since it became the seat of government of a united Germany for the first time since World War II.

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An Israeli woman mourns over the grave of a relative in the Mt. Herzl military cemetery October 1 during a memorial to the 2,700 Israeli soldiers killed during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, paying tribute to the dead of the "Yom Kippur War", said that the heroism of the Israeli fighters paved the way to peace with Egypt.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grimaces October 1 while a bodyguard looks over his shoulder during a memorial for the 2,700 Israeli soldiers killed during the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Netanyahu, paying tribute to the dead of the "Yom Kippur War", said that the heroism of the Israeli fighters paved the way to peace with Egypt.

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- FILE PHOTO 21NOV73 - Prime Minister Golda Meir (R) accompanied by her Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, meets with Israeli soldiers at a base on the Golan Heights after intense fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.[ Israel was simultaneously attacked by Syria and Egypt on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement when all of Israel comes to a standstill, and was only able to defeat both countries when the United States provided an emergency major resupply of equipment. Israel suffered heavy causalities and many Israelis were angered at the country's unpreparedness. ] Israel celebrates its 50th Golden Jubilee anniversary on April 30, according to the Hebrew calendar. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath in the memory of the Israelis who died in the 1973 Yom Kippur War during an October 12 ceremony marking the war held on Mt Herzl's Military Cemetery. Netanyahu said during the ceremony that Israel remains committed to defeating those of Israel's Middle East neighbors who target Jews for "murderous attacks" to this day.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath in the memory of the Israelis who died in the 1973 Yom Kippur War during an October 12 ceremony marking the war held on Mt Herzl's Military Cemetery. Netanyahu said during the ceremony that Israel remains committed to defeating those of Israel's Middle East neighbors who target Jews for "murderous attacks" to this day.

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