Yom Kippur War
Starting in the mid-1960s, the Israel Aliyah Center posted regular advertisements in this newspaper encouraging locals to make aliyah. (Image from the Jewish Chronicle, Feb. 3, 1967, via the Pittsburgh Jewish Newspaper Project)
September 23, 2024, 9:24 am
A firsthand view of war
Pittsburgh learned about the Yom Kippur War from a handful of Pittsburghers — including a small group of passionate teenagers and 20-somethings.
By Eric Lidji
War grave from 1973 Yom Kippur War. The war grave of one of the Israeli soldiers from Kibbutz Kfar Giladi killed in the Yom Kippur War 1973 (photo by David Lisbona courtesy of flickr.com)
September 20, 2023, 3:25 pm
The Yom Kippur War: Reflections of a battalion physician
"I unexpectedly found out that helping them cope with fear under fire was one of the most acute and difficult problems I faced."
By Dr. Itzhak Brook
Leonard Cohen performs in Hamburg, Germany, May 4, 1970. (Gunter Zint/1970 K& K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns/Getty Images)
November 28, 2022, 4:50 pm
Leonard Cohen’s Yom Kippur War concerts to be dramatized on TV by ‘Shtisel’ writer
The limited series, an adaptation of journalist Matti Friedman’s 2022 book of the same name, will film in Israel in 2024.
By Gabe Friedman
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