No Surprises, Please

On October 6, 1973, 40 years ago, Israel was wrapped in prayer shawls, observing the holiest of Jewish religious observances, the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Radio was silenced; transportation, public and private, was off the streets. On the Bar Lev Line in the Sinai, as well as on the Golan Heights, Israeli troops were pared down to a skeleton force. It was the one day each year when the n