2023Memorial Day - First Day Cover

The war broke out suddenly at midday on Yom Kippur in 1973, when the Egyptian and Syrian armies simultaneously attacked IDF forces in the Sinai Desert in the south and the Golan Heights in the north. The Egyptians managed to cross the Suez Canal and move large forces into the Sinai. The Syrian army attacked the border along the Golan Heights, taking advantage of its numerical advantage and penetrated the central and southern Golan, even threatening the towns in the Jordan Valley.