48 Years On

Leonard Cohen performs for IDF troops in the Sinai Peninsula during the Yom Kippur War of October 1973. After the initial surprise attack on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar by the combined Arab armies of Egypt and Syria, IDF forces struck back on both the northern and southern fronts to turn the tide of the war. After heavy initial losses, Israeli forces crossed the Suez Canal and had reached within 100 km of Cairo. On the northern front, after advancing past the Golan Heights, the IDF also reached within 30 km of Damascus and had begun to shell the outskirts of the Syrian capital. 

Ron Ilan/IDF