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Also Known As October War • Fourth Arab-Israeli War • Ramadan War
Date October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973
Participants Egypt • Israel • Syria
Context Arab-Israeli wars

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Six-Day War in Gaza
Six-Day War
June 5, 1967 - June 10, 1967
Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur War
October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973

Key People

Ariel Sharon
Ariel Sharon
prime minister of Israel
Hosni Mubarak
Hosni Mubarak
president of Egypt
Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat
president of Egypt
The first prime minister of Israel
Golda Meir
prime minister of Israel
Omar Suleiman, 2007.
Omar Suleiman
vice president of Egypt
Moshe Dayan.
Moshe Dayan
Israeli statesman
Hafez al-Assad
Hafez al-Assad
president of Syria
Ahmed Shafiq
prime minister of Egypt
Ṣalāḥ Khalaf
Palestinian political activist
David Elazar
Israeli military commander
Aḥmad Ismāʿīl
Egyptian defense minister

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