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({{Age in months, weeks and days |month1=10|day1=06|year1=1973|month2=10|day2=25|year2=1973}})"},"location":{"wt":"Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, Suez Canal (both banks) and surrounding regions"},"territory":{"wt":"{{plainlist|\n* At the final ceasefire:\n* Egyptian forces held {{convert|1200|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} on the eastern bank of the canal.{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=467}}\n* Israeli forces held {{convert|1600|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}} on the western bank of the canal.{{sfnp|Morris|2001|p=437}}\n* Israeli forces held {{convert|500|km2|sqmi|abbr=on|0}} of the Syrian Bashan region of the Golan Heights.\n}}"},"result":{"wt":"See {{slink||Aftermath}}"},"combatant1":{"wt":"{{ubl|\n| {{flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Egypt\n| {{flagcountry|Ba'athist Syria|1972}}\n}}{{bdl|wrap=\n; Expeditionary forces\n: {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}{{sfnp|O'Ballance|1978|pp=201}}\n: {{flag|Algeria}}{{sfnp|Shazly|2003|p=278}}\n: {{flag|Jordan}}\n: {{flagcountry|Libyan Arab Republic}}\n: {{flagcountry|Ba'athist Iraq}}\n: {{flag|Kuwait}}{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|pp=464-465}}\n: {{flag|Tunisia|1959}}<ref name=\"tlas\" />\n: {{flag|Morocco}}<ref name=tobji>{{cite book |title=Les officiers de Sa Majesté: Les dérives des généraux marocains 1956–2006 |year=2006 |publisher=Fayard |page=107 |isbn=978-2-213-63015-1 |author=Mahjoub Tobji |language=fr}}</ref>\n: {{flag|Cuba}}<ref name=\"Ra'anan\"/>\n: {{nowrap|{{flag|North Korea|1948}}}}{{sfnp|Shazly|2003|pp=83–84}}<ref name=\"david2013\">{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-north-korea-dogfight-yom-kippur-war-2013-6%7Ctitle=Israeli F-4s Actually Fought North Korean MiGs During the Yom Kippur War|first=David |last=Cenciotti|website=Business Insider}}</ref>\n{{flagicon|Palestine}} PLO factions (in Lebanon)\n}}"},"combatant2":{"wt":"{{flag|Israel}}"},"commander1":{"wt":"{{plainlist|\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Anwar Sadat\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Ahmad Ismail Ali\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Saad el-Shazly\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Abdel el-Gamasy\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Hosni Mubarak\n* {{Flagicon|Egypt|1972}} Fouad Abou Zikry\n* {{Flagicon|Ba'athist Syria|1972}} Hafez al-Assad\n* {{Flagicon|Ba'athist Syria|1972}} Mustafa Tlass\n* {{Flagicon|Ba'athist Syria|1972}} Yusuf Shakkur\n* {{Flagicon|Ba'athist Syria|1972}} Naji Jamil\n* {{Flagicon|Ba'athist Syria|1972}} Fadal Hussein\n}}"},"commander2":{"wt":"{{plainlist|\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Golda Meir\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Moshe Dayan\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} David Elazar\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Israel Tal\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Shmuel Gonen\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Yitzhak Hofi\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Eli Zeira\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Binyamin Peled\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Benjamin Telem\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Haim Bar-Lev\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Albert Mandler{{KIA}}\n* {{Flagicon|Israel}} Ariel Sharon\n}}"},"strength1":{"wt":"{{udl|class=dt-vpad|wrap=\n; Egypt\n: 650,000{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=54}}–850,000{{sfnp|Herzog|1975|p=239}}<ref name=\"auto\">{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Martin |title=Israel: A History |year=2008 |publisher=Harper Perennial |isbn=978-0688123635 |page=436 |edition=Revised}}</ref> troops (100,000+ crossed)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Crossing under Fire |url=https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Expeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal/Crossing-under-Fire/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819094614/https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Expeditions-with-MCUP-digital-journal/Crossing-under-Fire/ |archive-date=19 August 2025 |access-date=2025-12-05 |website=www.usmcu.edu |language=en-US |url-status=live }}</ref>\n\n: 1,700 tanks (1,020 crossed){{sfnp|Shazly|2003|p=244}}\n: 2,400 armored carriers\n: 1,120 artillery units{{efn|name=\"100mm\"}}\n: 400 combat aircraft\n: 140 helicopters{{sfnp|Shazly|2003|p=272}}\n: 104 naval vessels\n: 150 surface-to-air missile batteries (62 in the front line){{sfnp|Haber|Schiff|2003|pp=30–31}}\n; Syria\n: 150,000{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=54}}–300,000<ref name=\"auto\"/> troops\n: 1,200 tanks\n: 800–900 armored carriers\n: 600 artillery units{{efn|name=\"100mm\"}}<ref name=knapp />\n; Expeditionary forces\n: 120,000 troops{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=54}}\n: 500–670 tanks{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=314}}{{sfnp|Bar-On|2004|p=170}}\n: 700 armored carriers{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=314}}\n; Saudi Arabia\n: 23,000 troops (3,000 crossed)<ref name=sauditw>{{cite book|author=Neil Partrick|title=Saudi Arabian Foreign Policy: Conflict and Cooperation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LeiKDwAAQBAJ%7Cyear=2016%7Cpublisher=Bloomsbury |isbn=978-0-85772-793-0|page=183}}</ref>{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|pp=464–465}}<ref name=\"okaz2019\">{{cite web|title=بطولات السعوديين حاضرة.. في الحروب العربية|url=https://www.okaz.com.sa/local/na/1756574%7Carchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210216061810/https://www.okaz.com.sa/local/na/1756574%7Carchive-date=16 February 2021|work=Okaz|date=17 November 2019|access-date=13 August 2021}}</ref><ref name=\"cmu1978\" />\n; Morocco\n: 5,500 troops<ref name=afrique>{{cite web |last1=Touchard |first1=Laurent |title=Guerre du Kippour: quand le Maroc et l'Algérie se battaient côte à côte |date=7 November 2013 |url=https://www.jeuneafrique.com/167404/politique/guerre-du-kippour-quand-le-maroc-et-l-alg-rie-se-battaient-c-te-c-te/ |publisher=Jeune Afrique |access-date=4 December 2022 |language=fr}}</ref><ref name=temps>{{cite news|title=Le jour où Hassan II a bombardé Israël |url=http://letempsmag.com/Articles/14/Le+jour+o%C3%B9+Hassan+II++a+bombard%C3%A9+Isra%C3%ABl/568 |access-date=25 December 2013 |newspaper=Le Temps |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131014191251/http://letempsmag.com/Articles/14/Le%2Bjour%2Bo%C3%B9%2BHassan%2BII%2B%2Ba%2Bbombard%C3%A9%2BIsra%C3%ABl/568 |archive-date=14 October 2013 |language=fr}}</ref>\n: 30 tanks provided by Syria<ref name=afrique/><ref name=temps/>\n; Cuba\n: 500<ref name=\"auto3\">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1988/08/cuba-havanas-military-machine/305932/%7Ctitle=Cuba: Havana's Military Machine|first=John Hoyt|last=Williams|date=1 August 1988|magazine=The Atlantic|access-date=19 September 2022}}</ref>–1,000<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cuban Intervention in Angola, 1965–1991 |date=2004 |page=47 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-26933-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcR_AgAAQBAJ}}</ref> troops\n; Total\n: 914,000–1,067,500 troops\n: 3,430–3,600 tanks\n: 3,900–4,000 armored carriers\n: 1,720 artillery units\n: 452 combat aircraft\n: 140 helicopters\n: 104 naval vessels\n: 150 surface-to-air missile batteries\n}}"},"strength2":{"wt":"{{plainlist|\n* 375,000{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=54}}–415,000 troops\n* 1,700 tanks<ref>Insight Team of the London ''Sunday Times'', pp. 372–373.</ref>\n* 3,000 armored carriers\n* 945 artillery units{{efn|name=\"100mm\"|The number reflects artillery units of caliber 100&nbsp;mm and up}}\n* 440 combat aircraft}}"},"casualties1":{"wt":"{{udl|class=dt-vpad|wrap=\n; Egypt\n: 5,000{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}–15,000<ref name=\"autogenerated87\" /> dead\n: 8,372 captured<ref name=\"autogenerated2004\" />\n; Syria\n: 3,000{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}–3,500<ref name=\"autogenerated87\" /> dead\n: 392 captured<ref name=\"autogenerated2004\" />\n; Morocco\n: 6 dead<ref name=\"tobji\"/>\n: 6 captured<ref name=\"autogenerated2004\" />\n; Iraq\n: 278 dead\n: 898 wounded<ref name=\"Dunstan, p. 200\">Dunstan, p. 200.</ref>\n: 13 captured<ref name=\"autogenerated2004\" />\n; Cuba\n: 180 dead\n: 250 wounded<ref name=\"Ra'anan\">Ra'anan, G. D. (1981). ''The Evolution of the Soviet Use of Surrogates in Military Relations with the Third World, with Particular Emphasis on Cuban Participation in Africa''. Santa Monica: Rand Corporation. p. 37</ref>\n; Jordan\n: 23 dead\n: 77 wounded<ref name=\"Dunstan, p. 200\"/>\n; Kuwait\n: 18 dead<ref name=\"elwatannews18\">{{cite web|url= https://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/3706348#goog_rewarded | title= قائمة الشرف.. شهداء الكويت في حرب أكتوبر 1973\n | date= 17 May 2025|work=al watan}}</ref>\n; Total\n: 8,000{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}–18,500<ref name=\"autogenerated87\" /> dead\n: 18,000{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}–35,000{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=497}} wounded\n: 8,783 captured\n: 2,250{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|pp=496–497}}–2,300{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=244}} tanks destroyed\n: 341{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}–514<ref name=\"Herzog, 260\" /> aircraft destroyed\n: 19 naval vessels sunk{{sfnp|Herzog|1975|p=269}}\n}}"},"casualties2":{"wt":"{{plainlist|\n* 2,521{{sfnp|Schiff|1974|p=328}}–2,800{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}}<ref>Journal \"الأهرام\",\"Al Ahram\". 14 October 1974</ref> dead\n* 7,250{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=497}}–8,800{{sfnp|Gawrych|2000|p=243}} wounded\n* 293 captured\n* 400–800 tanks destroyed, 600 damaged or captured<ref name=\"Westpoint.edu1973\"/>{{sfnp|Rabinovich|2004|p=496}}\n* 407 armored vehicles destroyed or captured\n* 102–387 aircraft destroyed<ref name=\"White House Military Briefing\">{{cite web|url=http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB98/octwar-56.pdf |title=White House Military Briefing |access-date=22 October 2011}}</ref><ref name=\"AliLabib187\">\"القوة الثالثة، تاريخ القوات الجوية المصرية.\" ''Third Power: History of Egyptian Air Force'' Ali Mohammed Labib. pp. 187</ref>\n}}"},"notes":{"wt":""},"campaignbox":{"wt":"{{Campaignbox Yom Kippur War}}"}},"i":0}}]}' id="mwCg">

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War (6–25 October 1973), was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. Most of the fighting occurred in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, territories occupied by Israel in 1967. Some combat also took place in mainland Egypt and northern Israel.

The war started on 6 October 1973, when the Arab coalition launched a surprise attack across their respective frontiers during the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, which coincided with the 10th day of Ramadan. The United States and Soviet Union engaged in massive resupply efforts for their allies (Israel and the Arab states, respectively), which heightened tensions between the two superpowers.

Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed their respective ceasefire lines with Israel, advancing into the Sinai and the Golan Heights. Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal in Operation Badr, establishing positions, while Syrian forces gained territory in the Golan Heights. After three days, Israel halted the Egyptian advance and pushed most of the Syrians back to the Purple Line. Israel then launched a counteroffensive into Syria, shelling the outskirts of Damascus. The Egyptian forces continued the advance into Sinai on 14 October to relieve the Syrian front which was coming under increasing pressure.

Israeli forces exploited the failed Egyptian advance to breach the Suez Canal, advancing north toward Ismailia and south toward Suez to sever the Egyptian Second and Third Armies, with some units pushing west. However, their advance met fierce resistance on all fronts. Both sides accepted a UN-brokered ceasefire on 22 October, though it collapsed the day after amid mutual accusations of violations. With the renewed fighting, Israel succeeded in advancing south, materializing the threat to the Third Army's supply lines, but failed to capture Suez. A second ceasefire on 25 October officially ended the conflict.

The Yom Kippur War had significant consequences. The Arab world, humiliated by the 1967 defeat, felt psychologically vindicated by its early and late successes in 1973. Meanwhile, Israel, despite battlefield achievements, recognized that future military dominance was uncertain. These shifts contributed to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, leading to the 1978 Camp David Accords, when Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt, and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, the first time an Arab country recognized Israel. Egypt drifted away from the Soviet Union, eventually leaving the Eastern Bloc.

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