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Noun: Yom Kippur War
  1. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt
    - Arab-Israeli War

Type of: war, warfare

Encyclopedia: Yom Kippur War