Israeli security agency, Shin Bet admits failures over October 7

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Dennis Ross says Israelis suffered ‘groupthink’ leading up to Oct. 7

Ambassador Dennis Ross, a distinguished fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Israelis “clearly” had “groupthink” prior to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks and suggested that everything Israel “needed to know to avoid the surprise was available.” Speaking at a WINEP event on Thursday to promote his new book, Statecraft 2.0: What America Needs to Lead in a Multipolar World, the former senior policy advisor in the Reagan, Bu…

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Israeli security services point finger at Netanyahu as they own up to errors over Hamas’s October 7th incursion

The prime minister is resisting an inquiry into what brought about the devasting attack by Palestinian militants

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After a report published by the Shin Bet... Investigations into the October 7 attack again Israeli media reported that the new Israeli Chief of Staff decided to form a team of experts to review the army's investigations into October 7...

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Not enough spies or human intelligence: The Israeli security failures that led to Oct. 7

The Shin Bet security service's report into its failures before and during October 7 reveals a series of missed warning indicators about the surprise Hamas attack and the fateful assumption that the terror group wasn't actually interested in escalation

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Through his newspaper, the Israeli author reports on his difficulty in continuing to live and write in a country that became "invivable" after 7 October.

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Israeli security agency, Shin Bet admits failures over October 7

Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet acknowledged on Tuesday its failure in preventing Hamas's attack on October 7, 2023, saying that if it had acted differently the deadliest day in Israel's history could have been averted. The Internal Security Agency, as it is formally known, said that an internal probe "reveals that if the Shin Bet had acted differently, both in the years leading up to the attack and on the night of the attack... the m…