FACT CHECK · YOM KIPPUR WAR
Claim: Chat claims: Israel lost 500 tanks in 1973
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Israel had about 1,000 tanks hit, many repaired and back in action; Egypt and Syria lost about 2,250. The war ended with the IDF 101 km from Cairo and within artillery range of Damascus.
SOURCE
Britannica 'Yom Kippur War'; Herzog, 'The War of Atonement' (1975)
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