On Yom Kippur, we reaffirm our commitment to the rest of the Jewish people. If only we could live up it all year round, we would be a better and more Jewish society.

Mere hours before Israel would embark on what would be the most difficult war in its history, one that would see thousands of Israeli soldiers lose their lives, then-Prime Minister Golda Meir shared her hope with the families of fallen soldiers that the country would know no more war.

Rami Swet and his comrades at the nonprofit Yom Kippur War Center say Israel has a moral obligation to change the discourse about Israel's most traumatic war to date from one of failure to one of heroism and, ultimately, victory.

Released by the Defense Ministry for the first time, transcripts of conversations between Israel's top generals reveal the true chaos of the early days of the war, and how Israel planned to defeat Syria by bombing Damascus.

“Enough is enough,” said Brooklyn Councilman Chaim Deutsch. “If they have to bring in 200 cops to patrol our streets to show their visibility, that’s what has to be done.”