They calculated that the Bar Lev Line, a 150km (93-mile) sand embankment that stretched from the Gulf of Suez to the Mediterranean Sea, would take 12 hours to pulverise with explosives – enough ...

Titled “Defense Lines: Maginot, Bar-Lev and Beyond,” exhibit visitors can examine, through pictures the French Maginot Line and the Israeli Bar-Lev Line and how defense lines alike, ...

Baki Zaki Youssef, the Egyptian military engineer behind destruction of Israel's Bar Lev line, dies at 88. Dina Ezzat, Dina Ezzat, Dina Ezzat, Saturday 23 Jun 2018.

And once the myth of Bar-Lev Line’s invincibility had been broken, the first to flee in panic were the entrenched Israelis leaving behind dozens of Centurians and Pattons, besides huge dumps of ...

Israeli circles said today that there was no information to confirm reports published in the United States that Israel was beefing up its Bar-Lev line on the east bank of the Suez Canal to create ...

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's state-owned media says the army officer credited with the idea to destroy the Bar Lev line on the Suez Canal's eastern bank during the 1973 Arab Israeli war has died. The Akhbar ...

The 68-year-old Bar-Lev is a career soldier who served as the Israel Defense Force chief of staff from 1968 to 1972, when the so-called “Bar-Lev Line” of defense was built along the Suez Canal.

Baki Zaki Youssef, the Egyptian military engineer behind destruction of Israel's Bar Lev line, dies at 88. Dina Ezzat, Dina Ezzat, Dina Ezzat, Saturday 23 Jun 2018.

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s state-owned media says the army officer credited with the idea to destroy the Bar Lev line on the Suez Canal’s eastern bank during the 1973 Arab Israeli war has died.

Egypt's state-owned media says the army officer credited with the idea to destroy the Bar Lev line on the Suez Canal's eastern bank during the 1973 Arab Israeli war has died. The Akhbar al-Youm daily ...