Casualty Report: First 8 Days
2,000 Wounded
656 TEL AVIV (JTAJ— It was disclosed this week that some 2.000 Israeli soldiers were wounded on both fronts during the first eight days of the war. The government also announced that 656 Israeli soldiers had died in that period. .Bereaved families were provided with booklets by Chief Army Chaplain Gen. Mordechai Firon explaining regulations for burial and mourning. Soldiers killed In action are being buried temporarily In special cemeteries -consecrated for the purpose. According to Jewish custom, families will have the option of re-burial after the 12-month moupiiiig period. , Next of kin are visited by a special delegation of the army chaplaincy and representatives of the local town councils and of
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any organizations to which the families belong. A medical orderly accompanies each delegation. The Israeli public heard the first report stoicly. There were many red eyes and grim faces on the streets but activities wereconducted as usual. Condolences , ' Defense Minister Moshe Dayan expressed the nation's condolences to the families of the 656 dead and said that while the sorrow is deep. Israelis have to carry it within their hearts because the war is going on and has to go on. "Because of that we cannot, pay tribute in public to these heroes who gave their lives for the defense of our State. The sorrow is shared by all," he said.
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U.S. Begins Resupplying Israel With War Materiel; Hardware . Washington (JTA)—The U.S. resupply effort — presumably government, officially descrlb- some of the equipment had al, ing Ihe current Soviet airlift of •, ready reached Israel. military equipment to Egypt The announcement came at and Syria as "massive" an- the State Department which denounced this week it has begun clared that the Soviet airlift "aomo resupply" of war mate- "continued at an increased riel to Israel. pace both with respect to the U.S. officials would not number of flights and tonnage "itemize" the materiel in tbo delivered" to the two Arab
countries. Spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said that he estimated the Srovict supply as being " r o u g h l y " "4000 tons of equipment delivered in approximately 200 flights since about last 'Wednesday, "In. our own case," McCloskey said, "we watched and waited over the (Continued on Page 13)
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(JTA)—On the Sinai front new developments had political as well as military implications when for the first time French-made Mirage plans were seen on the Egyptian side participating in attacks on Israeli soldiers. Libya is the only Arab country lo have Mirages. .••"..' ' . . An army spokesman confirmed that two of the>seven Egyptian planes downed'in the Sinai scene'were Mirages. Heavy losses were inflicted on the Egyptians this week and scores of tanks were hit by Israelis. The Egyptians" lost about 220 tanks in a day-long armor battle that was waged after the Egyptians opened an offensive along the wide front of the Sinai line. One of the stories of the Yom Kippur War that will be told for days to come Is that'of Israelis on the jetty that forms the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Forty Israeli soldiers were posted there and with the aid of three tanks they fought back the Egyptians who tried time and again to assault and storm this important position. Some of the soldiers were injured, but they continued to fight back. . Finally the commander of the position radioed his superior that if the injured were to be saved they must surrender. The Red Cross was told to intervene and arrange for the surrender of the 40 Israelis. They took nothing from the position when the Egyptians came up, but a Torah scroll wrapped in a- red and yellow cover. A wide range of Soviet armament and equipment," including tiio personnel anti-tank weapon, the "Frog" half-ton warhcaded missile and the sophisticated Sukhoi 20 which is hardly known in the West, have been captured by the Isrelis. The latest capture was that of a new Russian tank the- T-62, a much more'sophistl* cated.brotherof•thejknqwini.T:§lor;T-55.,-_>,,';,.,_,, ^ J ^ , W j,' ( , ;,, ' • * • * > . ' .
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