Operation Abirey-Halev

Operation Abirey-Halev
	Part of Yom Kippur War
	; Israeli tank crosses the Suez Canal on a bridge formed by the Combat Engineering Corps
Date	15-23 October 1973
Location	Suez Canal
Result	Israeli victory
Belligerents
Israel	Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Ariel Sharon; Amnon Reshef; Danny Matt; Haim Erez; Tuvia Raviv; Aharon Tene (Johnny); Giora Lev	N/A
Units involved
Division 143; 14th Armored Brigade; 247th paratroopers reserve Brigade; 421th armored reserve division; 600th armored reserve division; Combat Engineering Corps	N/A
Casualties and losses
Heavy	Heavy

Operation Abirey-Halev or Operation Abirey-Lev (lit. Knights of the Heart) also known as Operation Stouthearted Men and Operation Valiant, code-named Operation Gazelle (Hebrew: מבצע אבירי לב, Arabic: ثغرة الدفرسوار), was an Israeli operation that took place in the center of the Suez Canal on 15–23 October 1973 during the Yom Kippur War.^[1]^[2]

^ Dori, Yoram (August 22, 2013). "The IDF'S 600th Armored Brigade in the Yom Kippur War". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.
^ Dunstan, Simon (2012). The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2): The Sinai. Osprey Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 9781782006916.

[1] Dori, Yoram (August 22, 2013). "The IDF'S 600th Armored Brigade in the Yom Kippur War". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015.

[2] Dunstan, Simon (2012). The Yom Kippur War 1973 (2): The Sinai. Osprey Publishing. p. 96. ISBN 9781782006916.

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