Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Eliat in Israel. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The Israeli destroyer "Eilat" is targeted by an Egyptian surface-to-surface missile, 47 Israeli sailors are killed. Israel retaliates by shelling Egyptian refineries along the Suez Canal, the "War of Attrition," which lasts until August 1970
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