
For over twenty years, Uri Kaufman visited the battlefields, interviewed veterans, and reviewed thousands of pages of declassified records. Kaufman is fluent in Hebrew and hired a team of researchers to translate Russian, Arabic, and German records (to review Stasi files describing Syria). His book, Eighteen Days in October, is the first history of the Yom Kippur War to be released in almost twenty years, and the first with access to previously classified information. He will provide unique insight and historical perspective to the ongoing crisis in Israel.
This series is funded by generous sponsors of Israel @ 75.