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Sep 24, 2023, 9:47 AM

Yom Kippur War through the eyes of an Irish volunteer

IDF soldiers catching a few minutes of sleep during a stop-over in Sinai, during the Yom Kippur War. (Government Press Office Photo Archive)

I had to figure out how to fix the machines needed to make sleeping bags for the soldiers; the engineers had all been called up

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Ernest Shapero is a retired CPA and risk management consultant to financial institutions. At the time of the Yom Kippur War, he was 21 years old.