Any Jew who recalls 1973 knows exactly where they were, and the events that unfolded, on October 6 of that year. Yom Kippur had begun at sundown in the U.S.; when American Jews came to synagogue the ...

Eli Zeira: insisted that the likelihood of an Arab attack, as he put it to the cabinet, was ‘lower than low’ Eli Zeira, who has died aged 97, was chief of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Intelligence ...