The Bar-Lev Line (Hebrew: קו בר-לבKav Bar-Lev; Arabic: خط بارليفKhaṭṭ Barlīf) was a chain of fortifications built by Israel along the eastern bank of the Suez Canal shortly after the 1967 Arab–Israeli War, during which Egypt lost the entire Sinai Peninsula. It was considered impenetrable by the Israeli military until it was overrun in less than two hours during Egypt's Operation Badr, which sparked the 1973 Arab–Israeli War.[1][2][3]
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32°19′45″E / 30.52500°N 32.32917°E / 30.52500; 32.32917 The Bar-LevLine (Hebrew: קו בר-לב Kav Bar-Lev; Arabic: خط بارليف Khaṭṭ Barlīf) was a chain of fortifications...
troops on the eastern side. This line, named after the chief of staff Haim BarLev, became known as the BarLevLine. It included at least thirty strong...
defending the BarLevLine became casualties, and some 200 were taken prisoner. In the subsequent days, some defenders of the BarLevLine managed to break...
fortifications. The examples of "flexible" defense-lines (Mannerheim Line, Árpád Line, BarLevLine) are not based on dense lines of heavily armed, large and expensive...
21 of the same year. Egypt began shelling Israeli positions along the BarLevLine, using heavy artillery, MiG aircraft and various other forms of Soviet...
attempts by the Egyptian Army to capture Fort Budapest, part of Israel's BarLevLine, during the Yom Kippur War. The first attempt took place at noon on October...
(1943-1944) Panther–Wotan line, Russia (1943) Pusan Perimeter, South Korea (1950) McNamara Line, South Vietnam (1966) BarLevLine, Sinai Peninsula (1973)...
VT-line used almost 400,000 cubic meters (14,000,000 cu ft) of concrete. However, "flexible" defense lines (Mannerheim Line, Árpád Line, BarLevLine) were...
Somewhat like "line in the sand" it is also used in non-military situations, as in "Reagan's budgetary Maginot Line." Atlantic Wall BarLevLine British hardened...
an intense offensive along the front line, inflicting heavy casualties and extensive damage to the BarLevLine positions. The Israelis suffered heavy...
when Israel was found unprepared for the Egyptian attack against the BarLevLine and a simultaneous attack by Syria in the Golan—the first phase in a...
view a 360 degree war film featuring Egyptian soldiers storming the Bar-LevLine on the Suez Canal, which is documented on a huge mural. There are also...
during the Second World War Babylon Fortress in Old Cairo. Baggush Box BarLevLine Beijing city fortifications British anti-invasion preparations of the...
pontoon bridges to cross the Suez Canal, and stormed the Bar-LevLine, Israel's defensive line along the Suez Canal's east bank. Though the Egyptians maintained...
memorial at Latrun. Fort Budapest was the only strongpoint along the Bar-LevLine to remain in Israeli hands during the war. The 2007 World Record Flag...
Kippur War, fought in and around Fort Lahtzanit, a fortification of the BarLevLine, located 19 kilometres (12 mi) south of Port Fouad in the Sinai Peninsula...
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