terms better suited to Israeli tactics and which they decisively won, thus weakening overall Egyptian resistance and facilitating a hard-fought but eventually successful counteroffensive that allowed the IDF to cross the Suez Canal and trap most of the Egyptian Third Army on its eastern bank by the end of the war. See also Agranat Commission List of Israel's Chiefs of the General Staff References Further reading 1925 births 1976 deaths Israeli generals Bosnia and Herzegovina Sephardi Jews Palmach members Israeli people of the Yom Kippur War Yugoslav emigrants to Mandatory Palestine Burials at Mount Herzl Yugoslav Jews