04: 1970-79 | The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs

Duration: 48'40''

Synopsis

Israel was not prepared for the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War. Ex-US president Jimmy Carter recalls how, in 1978, he managed to broker the Arab-Israel agreement.

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