He was featured on the cover of Life magazine after the war which showed him triumphantly clutching an AK-47 rifle,[1] under the caption "Israeli soldier cools off in the Suez Canal".

[2] In 1973, while on his honeymoon in Nepal, then-lieutenant colonel Ben Hanan learned of the outbreak of the Yom Kippur War.

[4] On October 9, 1973, Ben Hanan took command of the tank company put together from the remnants of the decimated 188th Armored Brigade by Shmuel Askarov, one of the survivors.

[6] He had led a further attack during which his tank was hit by a Sagger anti-tank missile, and Ben Hanan was wounded for the fourth time and rescued from behind enemy lines by Yonatan Netanyahu, a member of the IDF's elite Sayeret Matkal and brother of future Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

[5] Ben Hanan received the second highest decoration, the Medal of Courage for his part in the battles of the Yom Kippur War.