Letters from the front lines: The echoes of the Yom Kippur War in the Israel-Hamas War

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MEMORIAL FOR IDF soldiers fallen on both banks of the Suez Canal during the war, seen 1974.

MEMORIAL FOR IDF soldiers fallen on both banks of the Suez Canal during the war, seen 1974.

(photo credit: Yossi Mendalovitch/GPO)

ByANNA KRYCER

OCTOBER 13, 2024 06:19

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