 Israel raised its state-of military readiness, but war did not come, probably because Syrian President Hafez al-Assad convinced Sadat to delay it until Syria was better prepared to occupy the Golan Heights.Known in Israel as "the blue-white" alert, the episode eroded Israel's fear of an Arab attack.By autumb 1973, when Egypt and Syria geared up for war, military intelligence leaders, including Eli Zeira, thus refused to accept the evidence, despite numerous warnings and warning indicators that the Arabs planned to attack.