The
Yom Kippur War,
Ramadan War, or
October War ( , or ; or מלחמת יום כיפור ), also known as the
1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by
Egypt and
Syria against
Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. The military combat actions during the war mostly took place in the Sinai and the Golan Heights, territories that were occupied by Israel since the
Six-Day War of 1967. Egypt and Syria wanted to regain the
Sinai and the
Golan Heights respectively.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat wanted also to reopen the
Suez Canal. Neither specifically planned to destroy Israel, although the Israeli leaders could not be sure of that.