POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Yitzhak Rabin, Six-Day War, Bulgarian Lev

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 388
• Professor: Bradford McQuinn

Document Summary

Lecture 17: meir-rabin years: transition from meir to yitzhak rabin after 1973, meir faced so much criticism after the war she had to step down, peretz writes about this election immediately after the war. The syrian (from north)-egypt(from south) attack started october 6 at 2pm and came as an almost-complete surprise to the israelis. Jordan knew but wasn"t going to be involved due to their loss in earlier war. The yom kippur war of 1973 was a "fraction line" in israeli history. Total of 2,569 soldiers killed in war, 7,500 injured, 301 captive. The war broke out in the middle of a political stalemate and as a result of grave intelligence fiasco. Israel was both taken by surprise & unprepared. Israel though eg(cid:455)ptia(cid:374)s (cid:272)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ross (cid:272)a(cid:374)al, (cid:271)ut eg(cid:455)pt (cid:449)as pra(cid:272)ti(cid:272)i(cid:374)g putti(cid:374)g up (cid:271)ridges and driving tanks over it (israel thought it was just exercises)