How to Use Yom Kippur in a Sentence

Yom Kippur

noun
  • He was born at the end of September, 1973, a week before the start of the Yom Kippur War.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • She was born on the first day of the Yom Kippur War, Israel’s fifth war since it was founded in 1948.
    — Galit Atlas, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2023
  • And it was signed in the middle of an oil crisis triggered by the Yom Kippur War.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 31 May 2023
  • The 1973 Yom Kippur War was, much like the war in Ukraine, more than a regional conflict.
    — Ed Cox, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2023
  • After the Yom Kippur War, the government made the decision to move ahead with the peace process with Egypt.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Game 1 fell on Yom Kippur, and Koufax refused to pitch.
    — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Koufax had refused to pitch the opening game of the 1965 World Series because of Yom Kippur.
    — Bill Keane, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Four weeks ago Hamas launched the bloodiest attack on Israel since the Yom Kippur war 50 years ago.
    — ABC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • The first Yom Kippur took place after the Israelites’ exodus from Egypt.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Court will not be in session Wednesday because of Yom Kippur.
    — Terry Spencer, ajc, 4 Oct. 2022
  • In the Yom Kippur War, for comparison, that number stood at 7,200.
    — Adi Rubinstein, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Just before dusk settled over Los Angeles and Yom Kippur began, the two sides announced the deal.
    — Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Almog noted that his brother died during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    — Etgar Lefkovits, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Most reservists were already in Israel at the time of the call-up – the largest such compulsory mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    — Helen Coster and Alexander Cornwell, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Victory came, but Israelis could neither forgive nor forget the cost of the Yom Kippur War, as the conflict would later be known.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Roughly three hundred thousand other Israelis felt the same call and showed up for reserve service—the largest recruitment since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 14 May 2025
  • On Yom Kippur, by social convention, almost all Israeli Jews keep their cars parked.
    — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The sundown start of the Yom Kippur holiday on Sept. 24 became a soft target set as an unofficial deadline to reach a deal or, once again, retreat.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The speech happens right in front of Sisi, at a sunlit military parade to commemorate the soldiers who died fighting Israel in the Yom Kippur (a.k.a.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 May 2025
  • Even more complex was Kissinger’s shuttle diplomacy following the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
    — Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Rosh Hashana marks the start of a crush of upcoming holy days, including Yom Kippur, the Jewish calendar’s most important occasion.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • The current school year calendar was approved by a 4-1 vote last year, with Dorsey voting against after her suggestion of canceling school on Yom Kippur was not taken.
    — Thomas Goodwin Smith, Baltimore Sun, 18 Sep. 2023
  • There are remarkable similarities between the dynamic that led to the Yom Kippur War and today.
    — Uri Kaufman, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The festival coincided with Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 19 Apr. 2023
  • It is assumed that there will be many more resignations when the war is finally over and there is a full government investigation, as there was after the Yom Kippur War.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • But, the archbishop continued, the war nearby—the 1973 Yom Kippur War—had made travel dangerous and complicated.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • Yom Kippur is the most significant Jewish fast day.
    — Cristina Mutchler, Verywell Health, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Perhaps no Yom Kippur War, and so many other wars in the area?
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 4 Jan. 2026
  • For Jews, Rosh Hashana or Yom Kippur.
    — Dan Horn, Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The Yom Kippur War started that way.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 22 Dec. 2025

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