The Third Temple: Yom Kippur War Part 1

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Yom Kippur War of 1973 has been described as the greatest military intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor. This is the story of how a vengeful surprise attack almost destroyed the nation of Israel. Told through the eyes of titanic personalities like Anwar Sadat, Golda Meir, and Moshe Dayan. (Part 1 of 2). SOURCES: Boyne, Walter J. The Two O’clock War. 2002. Blum, Howard. The Eve of Destruction. 2003. Klagsbrun, Francine. Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel. 2017. Herzog, Chaim. The War of Atonement. 1975. Charles Rivers Editors. The Yom Kippur War. 2017. Abraham Rabinovich. The Yom Kippur War. 2004. Bregman, Ahron. The Spy Who Fell To Earth. 2016. Oren, Michael B. Six Days of War. 2002. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:04.9	Welcome to episode 15, the third temple.
1:47.8	Music The Third Temple The Third Temple On June 7, 1967, Israeli defense minister Moshe Diann stood facing a wall in the city of Jerusalem. It was an old wall,
1:55.0	an ancient wall. As Moshe ran his fingers over the stones he could feel the pits and the chips and the ragged indentions. He knew that over 2,000 years ago his ancestors had cut and carried these very same blocks,
2:03.6	shaped them, lifted them, and placed them.
2:07.6	Moshe was 52 years old, and for almost every single one of those years, he dreamed of standing
2:13.6	in this exact spot.
2:15.6	To the naked eye, there was nothing special or remarkable about
2:20.1	this wall. It was overgrown with brittle weeds and weathered to the point of disrepair. But to
2:26.2	Moshe, it was much, much more. Because Moshe was a Jew, and to a Jew, this was not just any old wall. This was the Western
2:37.2	Wall, the last structural remnant of the ancient Jewish temple that had been sacked and destroyed
2:42.9	by the Roman Empire in AD 70. At the time, the Jewish kingdom had revolted against their
2:49.1	overlords in Rome, and they had paid dearly for that
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