Yom Kippur, for example, finds about 60% of the population fasting and 45% in synagogues.
The date clashes, though, with Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Syria attacked Israel three times: in 1948, 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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We've been there with Israel before, after 1967 and in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and so on.
Israel three times: in 1948, 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
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While the 2006-2007 term officially begins Monday, the court will not hear arguments because of the Yom Kippur holiday.
But reporter Abraham Rabinovich in his book The Yom Kippur War dispels the myth the Elazar was at fault.
Avram has never recovered from imprisonment and torture in the Yom Kippur war.
Camparano, the Yorktown youth sports president and council candidate, was against the resolution calling for no games on Yom Kippur.
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Need I remind them of the Yom Kippur War and the coalition that sought to eliminate the state of Israel?
The two countries signed an armistice in 1974, following the Yom Kippur War, and U.N. forces have been stationed there since.
And during six days in June and Yom Kippur one October, it seemed as though all you had built might be lost.
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But I wasn't sure what to make of it all, how to understand my experience, until 10 days later, on Yom Kippur.
The idea that nuclear weapons in and of themselves deter such invasions is wrong, as Israel found in the Yom Kippur war.
Despite the gains volumes were low because of the Yom Kippur holiday.
The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force monitors the area in accordance with the 1974 agreement between Syria and Israel negotiated after the Yom Kippur War.
But Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are also opportunities for reflection.
And he flatly refused to let the U.S. use British military bases when we were rearming a beleaguered Israel during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
But for talking like that, Campanaro, I suspect, will have lots of atoning to do, and not just on Yom Kippur, in order to get elected.
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Israel's strutting self-confidence and Israelis' faith in the Labour governments that had always ruled them were shattered by the near-rout of the 1973 Yom Kippur war.
The issue arose after 25 to 30 baseball, softball and football games were scheduled by Yorktown Athletic Club for Oct. 8, the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur.
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This policy paid off in spades in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and in the 1982 Lebanon War when the IDF handily beat the Soviets' proxy armies.
Suez Canal, Egypt, 1974: I was with the Second Egyptian Army, who, at the end of the Yom Kippur War managed to cross the Suez Canal and establish a bridgehead there.
Number one, the Arab oil embargo and the subsequent increase in the price of oil in 1973 as a result of the Yom Kippur War really enriched Saudi Arabia.
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It is as difficult to feast with the right motive on the eve of Yom Kippur as it is to fast with the right motive on the day of Yom Kippur.
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Syrian officials have demanded a U.N. response to the incident, which it said violates the U.N. charter and the 1974 agreement between Syria and Israel, negotiated after the Yom Kippur War.
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Worse yet, that process was emboldening Israel's enemies to take advantage of its new vulnerability by finishing the attempt at staticide suspended after their defeat in the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
When one looks at Israeli history, the two wars that changed and defined the country the most were the Six Day War of 1967 and the Yom Kippur War of 1973.
Religious eating habits are especially relevant this month with Muslims observing Ramadan and Jews about to undertake an approximately 24-hour fast on Yom Kippur, which begins at sundown on September 27.
The Jews who insisted on fasting on Yom Kippur.
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