2. The name of this conflict stems from the important Jewish Festival of Yom Kippur, and the Muslim month of Ramadhan, in which the annual fast of Sawm is performed. From a rare moment of flabbiness in Israeli intelligence and in the government, Israel did not expect any attacks from its neighbours just at this point in time. The background for this is that too very important religious festivals coincided in both Islam and Juadism, two Festival in which there was prohibition againts warfare. Egypt and Syria use this laxity to launch a surprise attack on
