This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Egyptian front International front The Third Battle of Mount Hermon was fought on the night of October 21–22, 1973, between the Israeli Army and the Syrian Army over Mount Hermon, during the last days of the Yom Kippur War.

Elazar was asked to return to Tel Aviv, where he met with the Defense Minister, Moshe Dayan, and they agreed that recapturing the Hermon was a top priority.

[2] Yehuda Peled, who had commanded the failed counterattack on October 8, decided that it would be best to attack from the Syrian enclave to the east, instead of from the Golan again.

The 4,000 foot climb from that direction was very steep, but would bring the attacking force straight to the Israeli outpost without fighting on the ridge.

Golani was to capture the Israeli Hermon, while a reserve paratroopers brigade, under the command of Colonel Haim Nadel, would attack the Syrian positions established before the war.

Brigadier-General Yekutiel Adam, Deputy Chief of Northern Command, rejected this suggestion, saying Golani should capture the outpost it had lost.

The paratroop officers suggested that Golani would attack from the east, but were rejected because the eastern slope was considered too vulnerable to Syrian artillery and too steep to safely evacuate the wounded.

On the night of October 20, Drori arrived at Northern Command and was advised by a paratroop officer to change his orders.

[5] On the morning of October 21, a reconnaissance team under the command of Yoni Netanyahu climbed an adjacent spur to look at the Israeli Hermon, and reported seeing only two Syrians on the ridge the entire day.

In the middle, a motorized force led by tanks and a bulldozer prepared to move up the road to follow the two flanks.

These were accompanied by artillery, firing 200 yards ahead, but it was ordered to stop when it began to hit too close to the troops.

[9] Syrian artillery from the nearby village Arneh shelled the landing zone and seriously wounded one Israeli.

The Israeli paratroopers proceeded to attack the Twists Position (Hebrew: מוצב הפיתולים, Mutzav HaPitulim), defended by 25–30 Syrians.

Israeli forces continued south, attacking the Cliff Position (Hebrew: מוצב המצוק, Mutzav HaMatsuk), with 30–40 Syrian defenders.

Thanks in part to artillery support, the Israelis captured the position without suffering any casualties, killing 12 Syrians.

[12] After the battle, one Golani private repeated the phrase "the eyes of the country" in an interview for the Israeli television.