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Yom Kippur War

Prime Minister Golda Meir (right) and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (center) in 1973. (Photo/Ron Frenkel-Government Press Office)
Posted inLocal Voice

50 years later, one thing is clear: Golda Meir was a bad prime minister

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan October 5, 2023October 5, 2023

Golda Meir was Israel’s first and only female prime minister. She held important positions in the Jewish Agency before the creation of the state, and she was an effective minister […]

Herbert Gold points to a painting he got in Haiti. (Photo/George Barahona)
Posted inCulture

‘Not Dead Yet’: Nonagenarian S.F. icon Herbert Gold talks writing, Israel, mortality

by Liz Harris September 23, 2021September 29, 2021
a scared young soldier crouches behind a rock holding a machine gun
Posted inTV & Film

Big budget, small human stories: ‘Valley of Tears’ tackles Yom Kippur War

Esther D. Kustanowitz by Esther D. Kustanowitz November 9, 2020November 9, 2020
a scared young soldier crouches behind a rock holding a machine gun
Posted inTV & Film

HBO Max nabs Yom Kippur War drama ‘Valley of Tears,’ Israel’s biggest-budget TV series ever

Curt Schleier by Curt Schleier and JTA October 15, 2020October 15, 2020
five men in army uniforms stand on a set of train tracks facing the camera
Posted inHistory

Yom Kippur ’73: Local doctor shares stories and photos from the front lines

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman October 3, 2019September 28, 2022
Israeli tanks cross the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur War (Photo/Wikimedia-Israel Defense Forces)
Posted inIsrael at 70

An eyewitness to Yom Kippur War, Ethiopian aliyah, Soviet Jewry and more

Doug Kahn by Rabbi Doug Kahn April 19, 2018
two older men stand together holding a photo of them in 1973
Posted inBay Area, Israel, News

Santa Rosa pilot reunites with Israeli ‘brothers in arms’ from Yom Kippur War

Andrew Tobin by Andrew Tobin July 18, 2017July 17, 2017

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