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June 30, 2022

Leonard Cohen’s Frontline Experience of the Yom Kippur War

He was not Bob Hope on a USO tour.

When the Yom Kippur War erupted in 1973, the Canadian singer Leonard Cohen was living in Greece. He felt what Rich Cohen describes as an “irresistible impulse” to be with his fellow Jews, and headed for Tel Aviv. The musician’s wartime sojourn in Israel is the subject of a recent book:

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