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Ginnosar, that Saturday. When he received notice about the urgent Cabinet
meeting, he asked for a helicopter, but was told that he had enough time to get
there by car.
36. Shlomo Nakdimon Yediot Acharonot August 2 nd 1974.
37. In a conversation with the author on July 31, 1979, Yigal Allon assessed the
situation as a “Yom Kippur miracle; had the Arabs started the war on another
holiday, when Israelis tend to go visiting and traveling, the consequences of
the war were liable to have been far more severe.
38. Saad-a-Din Shazly (Farik) – The October War, memories – Al Watan, Al
Arabic, Paris 1980 pp. 21-20 also Samual Bar “The Yom Kippur War – The
Israel Intelligence Failure in Arab Eyes.” (Hebrew)
39. Shlomo Nakdimon Yediot Acharonat August 2 nd 1974. (Hebrew)
40. Maariv Oct. 9 th 1973. (Hebrew)
41. I have no intention of claiming that placing the blame for difficulties and
failures in the battlefield on warning failure was deliberately planned to
silence public criticism by diverting public outcry towards intelligence.
42. Lieutenant Avi Shai: “Egypt towards the Yom Kippur War: Objectives and
Operative Plans.” July 1976: 15-38. The article details planning information.
The author refers to a broad range of sources including documents that the
IDF found in the war. (Hebrew)
43. Bartov, Part b, p. 28.
44. Herzog: The Day of Atonement War 1975. pp. 67-ff (Hebrew)
45. The deterrence effect of the SCAD surface-to-surface missiles has not yet
been clarified; to what extent did the presence of the Egyptian missiles, even
if not deployed, deter the IDF from attacking deep targets in Egypt It should
be noted, however, that Israel attacked targets in Syria’s rear after the Syrians
fired the same, less effective Frog missile on the Jezreel Valley.
46. Nevertheless, the accepted view that the IDF did not carry out any night
activity during the Yom Kippur War is incorrect. At the southern front, on the
night of October 6-7, several night attacks were implemented at the battalion
level in an attempt to infiltrate emplacements and prevent crossing; on the