The editor of a book about the Yom Kippur War being published by the Israeli army and based upon recently declassified government research is denying charges that he was pressured “to reconcile the book’s content with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon‘s version of events in the war,” or that “many sections of the book . . . were changed to improve Sharon’s image.” According to a report in The Haaretz, the History of the Yom Kippur War editor Dr. Shaul Shai does admit, however, that “some 300 revisions” were made to the original version of the book before it was published last week by the Israel Defense Forces‘ “historical branch.” Knesset member Yossi Sarid has called for distribution to be halted and for the book to be “reviewed by an independent committee of experts, which will compare the versions and determine what motivated the changes.” Sarid also noted that, “It is unfitting that in a democracy the army carries out the sensitive role of ‘Minister of History.'”