Lusitania
Donor
The reason the French were the Isreali main backers was because the French were fighting the Algerian separatist and rebels who were coincidently being supplied and financed by none other than Egypt so the French supplied Israel with not only weapons but also secretly provided them the detonator for nuclear bomb. It was not till the mid 1960s that the French now expelled out of Algeria decided to cut ties with the Israelis at which time the US had taken up Israel as it main supporter.
In 1967 the Israelis had attacked the Arab armies in a pre-emptive strike to eliminate the threat of being attacked. In 1973 during the preceding 6 months to the war the Israeli armed forces had mobilized several times in response to Egyptian and Syrian military maneuvers but in each time the arabs had stood down and Israeli responded like wise (Israeli mobilization means that country basically stops as majority of able bodied men were called up to serve). The Israelis were warned by both US and Europe not do the same thing so it was forced to play the waiting game while it was being continually threatened.
In 1967 the Israelis had attacked the Arab armies in a pre-emptive strike to eliminate the threat of being attacked. In 1973 during the preceding 6 months to the war the Israeli armed forces had mobilized several times in response to Egyptian and Syrian military maneuvers but in each time the arabs had stood down and Israeli responded like wise (Israeli mobilization means that country basically stops as majority of able bodied men were called up to serve). The Israelis were warned by both US and Europe not do the same thing so it was forced to play the waiting game while it was being continually threatened.