Launched on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Egyptian forces went on to cross the Suez Canal and establish a bridgehead, while Syrian troops launched an offensive in the Golan Heights.
On the 6th October 1981 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist group that was enraged by the peace treaty he had negotiated with Israel.
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