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thanks!- i found that now.-

but im still missin some ...personal experience:
which holidays/ceremonies do they celebrate and how?
...practicly ...in real life ...

Passover (as above), hannukah (12 day holiday during winte equinox... in the same time as Christmas ) ... hendrik, google can help you more than e+ formu

as for thewars, the 6 day conflict of 67 is pretty much the best metaphorical assrape on a battlefield of the 20th century (and considering the technology equivalents, and the numbers, possibly the best use of strategy and terrain since Sparta vs Persians ).. Israel fought a war on 3 fronts (egypt to south, syria to east, and 3rd country (not lebanon, it didnt exist yet... fuck i forgot)... and in with awesome straetigic move, despite being engaged on 3 fronts, used their air force to disable enemy airfields in unison with their armoured divisions to push forward and capture large amounts of land with limited resistance. plus they fucked up the enemy air force so used theirs to support ground units. Unchalleneged. I would even pick this conglict over 43's STalingrad as the defining conflict in modern warfare.

1973's Yom kippur war was supposed to be the payback.

1) Israelis were attacked on a jewish Yom Kippur Holiday

2) Were fighting against egypt & syria this time (still 2 fronts) and both egypt and syria were dedicated to get their shit back. outnumbered on both fronts, they sill ended p somehow defenidng themselves. FOr example, in the golan mountains, syria lost 800+ tanks, while sirael only about 150.

(both egypt and syria were had a technological advantage... Syria's tanks had infra-red vision for whole crew while the isreali tanks had limited night vision, mostly only for commanders... and in a day-night 24hr confrontation, thats a MASSIVE minus )... while egypt wre testing a world first, soviet anti tank remote control missile which did some damage at first, but then certain defensive manouvers were made (move tank when missile is 2/3 of the way, shoot @ guy @ remote control cos he is exposed to watch the missile hit tank, etc.). Anyway, against syria, it was a more succesful aiming startegy, against Egypt, it waz first using theadvantage of western tanks (that can aim their turrets @ 10 degress more than the soviet tanks that egypt had) so you can place an entire tank division behind sand dunes and be virtually inviisble and wait for enemy to get within striking distance) to repel the offensive, and then for the counter, a cunning manouvre where the Isrealis split into 3 groups to

a) make quick temporary bridging across the suez canal and defend it for supplies
place a division to defend itfurther
and c) create a massive diversion awayfrom the actual big picture.

all 3 worked, and c was not a suicide mission either cos they fucked up an egyptian division (despite heavy losses though) @ some place called "chinese farm"

anyway, both fronts were victorious too, but ended up losing conflict cos isreal was forced to give up conquered lands anyway. Its also notable, that the person in charge of the Egyptian front was Gen. Ariel Sharon.

gg. (and i didnt get the Yom Kippur thing from wikipedia either so could be wrong with some minor facts)