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The Valley of Tears (Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא, Emek HaBakha) is the name given to an area in the Golan Heights after it became the site of a major battle in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, known as the Valley (or Vale) of Tears Battle, which was fought from 6 October to 9 October. Although massively outnumbered, the Israeli forces ...
Valley of Tears (Hebrew: עֵמֶק הַבָּכָא, Emek HaBakha), (Series original name: Hebrew: שְׁעַת נְעִילָה, Sha‘at Ne'ila – meaning "the hour of Ne'ila") is an Israeli television miniseries directed by Yaron Zilberman based on a screenplay by Ron Leshem and starring Aviv Alush, Joy Rieger and Lior Ashkenazi.
To the south of Mount Hermonit is the Valley of Tears, named after the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. The valley was named Valley of Tears due to the terrible war and many tank kills here in 1973. The bulk of the Syrian invasion attempted to come through this valley. Here 44 Israeli tanks held off more than 1000 Syrian tanks from entering the Golan ...
EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has struck a deal for world rights to Valley Of Tears, Israel's biggest-budget TV series ever made, in a major deal for London-based sales and production org WestEnd Films. The ...
The battle proved to be one of the turning points of the war. After the war, the valley where it took place was littered with hundreds of destroyed and abandoned Syrian tanks and was renamed "Emek Ha-Bacha" ("Valley of Tears"). For his actions, Kahalani was awarded the highest Israeli military decoration, the Medal of Valor. [2]
Israeli artillery pounds Syrian forces near the Valley of Tears. In the afternoon of 9 October, Syrian command committed the Republican Guard independent 70th Armored Brigade, equipped with T-62s and BMP-1s. [279] To hold the gap, 7th AB could by now muster only some two dozen tanks, elements from the 77th, 74th, 82nd and 71st Tank Battalion.
The phrase also occurs in the writings of Jerome (c. 347–420) [2] and Boniface (c. 675–754), [3] but was perhaps popularized by the hymn "Salve Regina", which at the end of the first stanza mentions "gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle", or "mourning and weeping in this valley of tears".
It was 6:29 a.m. when the blasting music stopped without warning. The brief silence that followed was pierced by the screams of a woman somewhere in the crowd in this remote site in the Negev Desert.