Historical place archive

Eilat in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Eilat in Israel. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1969–1969

Historical events in Eilat

1969

21 October 1969
Suez Canal
Golda Meir · Israel War

Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal, the "War of Attrition," which lasts until August 1970

Provenance

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