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Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.

Here Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel.

Fortunately for the Israelis they occupied the Sinai Peninsula in the south and the Golan Heights in the north, so they could absorb the blow.

Frankly, after the biblically epic victory of 1967 the Israelis had become complacent. The Yom Kippur war was a national crisis and shock to the Israeli psyche. It's a huge part of the national memory.

We'll be discussing the war all this week.