What
is Yom Kippur? Why the war happened on Yom Kippur? Why
the site take the name Yom-Kippur?
Yom Kippur is one of Israel
feasts, which is Day of Atonement. Egypt and Syria
declared the war against Israel on that day for reasons
stated by Mohammed Abd Al-Ghany Al-Gamasy chief of operations of
Egyptian Army during the war in his memoirs saying:
( We made a study in the operations
organization in the light of the military situation of
the enemy and of our forces, the idea of the planned
attack operation, the technical specifications of "Suez
Canal" in respect of the ebb and tide. We studied
all months of the year to choose the best month to thrust
the canal in the light of the state of the ebb, tide and
the speed of the current and its direction.
The study
included also all official holidays in Israel other than
Saturday, their weekly holiday, as the enemy forces will
be less ready for war. We found that they have eight
feasts, three of them in October: Kippur day, Sukkot and
Rosh Hashana. Our concern was to know the effect of every
holiday on procedures of mobilization in Israel...,
Israel has different means to call the reserve forces...
public means and secret means by "Terms" or
symbolic phrases through the Radio or Television... we
found that Kippur day is the only day in the year that
the Radio and the Television stop their transmission as a
part of traditions of this feast. That means that calling
the reserve forces by public speedy means will not be
used, thus, they will use other means which need more
time to mobilize the reserve....It was Saturday, Kippur
Day, 6 October 1973, which was also the tenth of Ramadan,
one of convenient days that was our choice.....)
The site with the name of Yom-Kippur
day because this war worldwide is known by Yom Kippur
more than war of 6th
of October 1973.
