During the Yom Kippur War of 1973 the Syrian Army launched an invasion of Israel that was only narrowly repulsed.

Since 1973 the cease-fire line has been respected by both sides, with very few incidents until the Syrian uprising of 2011 began.

Following the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, which left Israel in occupation of additional Syrian territory, Syria accepted UN Security Council Resolution 338, which signaled an implicit acceptance of Resolution 242.

This was the first such Israeli attack deep inside Syrian territory since the 1973 war.

No fighting occurred along the 1967 Jordan River cease-fire line during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war, but Jordan sent a brigade to Syria to fight Israeli units on Syrian territory.

During the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Syrian missile batteries in Lebanon caused heavy damage to Israeli fighter jets.

Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Syrian president Hafez al-Assad met King Hussein in 1973 to discuss the possibility of war.

Roman scouts in the royal Syrian parks shortly before the last of the Seleucids fell to Rome had orders to hamstring every elephant they could capture, and while elephants performed in the circuses of Rome, Shapur's war elephants in the mid 4th century numbered in the hundreds ( Fox 1973 p 338 ).

Some claim that Mossad warned Hussein about a Palestinian assassination attempt and that Hussein warned Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in a clandestine face-to-face meeting about Egyptian and Syrian threats prior to the 1973 Yom Kippur War, though his warnings were unheeded by the Israeli leadership.

After three weeks of fighting, though, and with U. S. air-lifted reinforcements of weapons and equipments ( first shipment arrived on 9 October 1973 ), the IDF pushed the Syrian forces beyond the original lines.

* Yanush Ben Gal, 1973 Yom Kippur War hero, held back Syrian forces

* Avigdor Kahalani, 1973 Yom Kippur War general, held back Syrian forces

* 1973 – Yom Kippur War – recapture of Mount Hermon from Syrian commandos ( jointly with Golani Brigade ); deep interdiction ambushes in Egypt and Syria.

Flights were disrupted for several weeks during the 1973 Yom-Kippur war, following which Syrian sovereignty was restored in parts of the Golan heights.

The Royal Jordanian Land Force used Centurion tanks, first in 1970 to fend off a Syrian incursion within its borders during the Black September events and later in the Golan Heights in 1973.

As a division commander, Brigadier General Eitan stopped the Syrian attack into the Golan Heights during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Feld Carr used funds from the Dr. Ronald Feld Fund for Jews in Arab Lands ( established at Beth Tzedec Synagogue, Toronto in 1973 ), donated privately, both to negotiate ransom for the release of Syrian Jews, from prisons inside Syria and for passports and visas, permitting them to leave, as well as smuggling others across borders and out of that country.

The first naval missile battles between missile boats occurred between the Israel Navy ( using indigenously-developed Gabriel missiles ), and Syrian craft during the October 1973 Yom Kippur War.

During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Ben-Gal commanded the 7th Armored Brigade and oversaw the defense of the Golan Heights against Syrian attack.

He came to New York University ( NYU ) in 1973, and served as director of the Center for Ebla Research, spearheading work on that ancient Syrian city.

* 1973 Syrian General Staff Headquarters Raid

* 1973 – Essam El-Hadary, Egyptian footballer

* 1989 – The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.

* 1973 – Yom Kippur War: Gabi Amir's armored brigade attacks Egyptian occupied positions on the Israeli side of the Suez Canal, in hope of driving them away.

Sudan sent at least one infantry brigade to the Sinai peninsula as a reinforcement to the Egyptian forces during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

On 6 October 1973, Egypt launched the October War to liberate the peninsula, which was the site of fierce fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces.

In 1973, during the Yom Kippur War, the canal was the scene of a major crossing by the Egyptian army into Israeli-occupied Sinai, and in the later stage of the war, a counter-crossing by the Israeli army to African Egypt.

* May 20 – Ahmed Hamdi, Egyptian soldier, that fought in Yom Kippur ( d. 1973 )

Despite the beginning of an Egyptian shift from a pro-Soviet to a pro-American orientation in 1972 ( under Egypt's new leader Anwar El Sadat ), rumors of imminent Soviet intervention on the Egyptians ' behalf during the 1973 Yom Kippur War brought about a massive American mobilization that threatened to wreck détente.

Khalifa's first publicized report in the Arab world appeared in the Egyptian magazine Akher Sa ' a, in January, 1973.

* Egyptian Hieroglyphics ( 1973 )

During the Yom Kippur War ( October 1973 War ), the Egyptian army, led by Egyptian Chief of staff, Saad El Shazly, overran the Bar Lev Line in less than 2 hours due to the element of surprise and overwhelming firepower.

The House on Chelouche Street is a 1973 film by Israeli director Moshé Mizrahi, filmed in Hebrew, Egyptian Arabic, and Judeo-Spanish ( a Jewish oriented dialect of Spanish ).

One of the essays in, regarding the internal military and political discussions within the Egyptian high command in 1973, indicates that senior civilian leaders ( including Anwar Sadat ) believed that they had to fight a war in order to have enough internal political support to negotiate for peace.

In more recent times the Egyptian Mummy Research Project, begun in 1973, has yielded much information on health and social conditions in ancient Egypt and radiology and endoscopy have been used extensively.

It has been argued that only the relatively good performance of the Egyptian Army in the October War of 1973, especially during the crossing of the Suez Canal ( Operation Badr ) and in the Battle of Suez, which allowed the Egyptians to claim victory and take part in the 1977 Camp David Accords.

The second United Nations Emergency Forces ( UNEF II ) was established by United Nations General Assembly, in accordance with United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 ( 1973 ), to supervise the ceasefire between Egyptian and Israeli forces at the end of Yom Kippur War or October War, and following of the agreement of 18 January 1974 and 4 September 1975, to supervise the redeployment of Egyptian and Israeli forces and to man and control the buffer zones established under those agreements.

The mandate of UNEF II was to supervise the implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 which demanded that an immediate and complete ceasefire between Egyptian and Israeli forces be observed and that the parties return to the positions they had occupied at 1650 hours GMT on 22 October 1973.

It was conducted by the United States Army, Egyptian Army, and United States Navy following the Yom Kippur War between Egypt and Israel in 1973.

On May 27, 1973, the IDF announced a state of emergency and reserve troops were called up in response to a movement of Egyptian troops.

* Operation Badr ( 1973 ), the highly successful Egyptian crossing of the Bar-Lev Line in the Yom Kippur War