Tanks in the Israeli Army and ended with a ceasefire, the frontiers remaining the same as when the war began, with no real commitment to serious peace negotiations. The Yom Kippur war was a conflict between the Arab world and Israel that lasted from October 6, 1973 to October 25, 1973. The Yom Kippur War began when a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur which happens to be the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day for people of the Judaic faith. The Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied
Soviet Union and the Arab–Israeli conflict Soviet Union and the Arab–Israeli conflict The Soviet Union played a significant role in the Arab–Israeli conflict as the conflict was a major part of the Cold War. For related developments after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, see "Russia and the Arab–Israeli conflict". The official Soviet ideological position on Zionism condemned the movement as akin to bourgeois nationalism. Lenin, claiming to be deeply committed to egalitarian ideals and universality of all humanity, rejected Zionism as a reactionary movement, "bourgeois nationalism", "socially retrogressive", and a backward force that deprecates class divisions among Jews. Soviets believed that the main