<Li> Scud missile attack </Li> <Ul> <Li> Nickel Grass </Li> </Ul> <P> The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War (Hebrew: מלחמת יום הכיפורים ‎, Milẖemet Yom HaKipurim, or מלחמת יום כיפור, Milẖemet Yom Kipur; Arabic: حرب أكتوبر ‎, Ḥarb ʾUktōbar, or حرب تشرين, Ḥarb Tišrīn), also known as the 1973 Arab--Israeli War, was a war fought from October 6 to 25, 1973, by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel . The war mostly took place in Sinai and the Golan--territories that had been occupied by Israel since the end of the 1967 Six - Day War--with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel . Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's objectives were "to recover all Arab territory occupied by Israel following the 1967 war and to achieve a just, peaceful solution to the Arab - Israeli conflict ." </P> <P> The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli - occupied territories, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan . Egyptian and Syrian forces crossed ceasefire lines to enter the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights respectively . Both the United States and the Soviet Union initiated massive resupply efforts to their respective allies during the war, and this led to a near - confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers . </P>

What was the main purpose of the yom kippur war