READER ADS: Tourist guide requires work | PUT YOUR AD HERE - FREE Click to open Encyclopaedia of the Orient on its front page Yom Kippur War also called Ramadan War and October War War fought between Israel on one side, and Egypt and Syria on the other, backed by Iraq and Jordan and supported economically by Saudi Arabia. The war lasted for 3 weeks, and started on October 6, 1973 and ended on ...