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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 ...
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, [41] the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Most of the fighting occurred in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, territories occupied by Israel ...
This raised Israeli numbers in the Golan Heights to 177 tanks and 44 artillery pieces on 6 October. To replace the 7th Armored Brigade, the Armor School, under the command of Colonel Gabi Amir, was ordered to activate its tank brigade for immediate airlift; it was in the Sinai by 6 October, before the war began.
Israel, as well as the U.S. and most of the world, were caught by surprise on 6 October 1973 when Egypt and Syria attacked the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, respectively. [1] The Soviet Union had supplied Egypt and Syria over 600 advanced surface-to-air missiles , 300 MiG-21 fighters, 1,200 tanks and hundreds of thousands of tons of ...
It was captured by Israeli forces during the Six-Day War of 1967, a short conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbours. ... the Golan in 1973. Israel and Syria signed an armistice in 1974 and a ...
The tanks saw action in the 1967 and 1973 Wars, after the battle for the Golan Heights in 1973, the Shot-Kal was dubbed "The Tank That Saved Israel". After the 1973 war the Shot-Kal was fitted with Blazer reactive armour which pre-detonated incoming missiles and grenades with HEAT warheads.
Zvi Greengold (Hebrew: צבי "צביקה" גרינגולד; born 10 February 1952) is a former Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who fought during the 1973 Yom Kippur War as a tank commander. He is one of only eight people who fought in the war to be awarded the Medal of Valor, the nation's highest medal for heroism.
The attack fails, and over 150 Israeli tanks are destroyed. The 188t brigade (Barak brigade), which played an important role in slowing the Syrian advance, is outnumbered and overwhelmed and, as a result, is almost completely destroyed as the Southern Golan Heights region is captured by the Syrian forces.