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Also Known As Israeli-Arab wars
Date 1948 - 1949 • 1956 • 1967 • 1973 • 1982
Location Egypt • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Syria
Participants Egypt • Iraq • Israel • Jordan • Lebanon • Syria

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Six-Day War in Gaza
Six-Day War
June 5, 1967 - June 10, 1967
Yom Kippur War
Yom Kippur War
October 6, 1973 - c. November 1973

Key People

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser
president of Egypt
Barak, Ehud
Ehud Barak
prime minister of Israel
Yitzhak Rabin
Yitzhak Rabin
prime minister of Israel
Chaim Herzog
Chaim Herzog
president of Israel
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Munʿim Riyāḍ
Egyptian military officer
Aḥmad Ismāʿīl
Egyptian defense minister

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