![]() ![]() Intense fighting produced heavy losses on both sides. Egypt and Syria were backed financially and militarily by at least nine Arab nations. On the Golan Heights, a skeleton Israeli force with 180 Israeli tanks faced 1,400 Syrian tanks in the Sinai, 600,000 Egyptians using 2,000 tanks and 500 aircraft attacked 500 Israelis trying to defend their positions along the Bar Lev Line by the Suez Canal. On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur (the holiest day on Israel’s calendar), Egypt and Syria attacked an ill-prepared Israel on two fronts. Although Jordan prepared a military buildup on the Jordanian-Israeli border, the country stayed out of the war. ![]() Israeli intelligence warned the government that war could be imminent because of Egyptian and Syrian military buildups on the borders but the warning went unheeded. Sadat removed the Soviet advisers and joined President Hafez al-Assad of Syria to wage war against Israel. ![]() Sadat believed he had to regain the Sinai taken by Israel in 1967. Anwar Sadat replaced Nasser as Egypt’s president after Nasser’s death in 1970. ![]()
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