Volume 20, Number 21 & 22 · January 24, 1974
Israel: Three Months of Yom Kippur
By Bernard Avishai
The aftermath of the October war is still very much before us, but Israeli society is already gripped by the urgency of 'drawing conclusions' ('hasakat maskanot'). Indeed, the name 'Yom Kippur War,' tentatively assigned by the Israeli press, seems to have stuck fast for reasons far transcending the actual day of attack. For the pain, introspection, and grim self-criticism which Jews so vigorously exercise on Yom Kippur have become, for the present at any rate, a way of life. This is a society facing its short-comings; the achievements can wait.
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