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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
03:19 Events on the night between 10/6 and 10/7, 2023
11:02 Was Shabbat a factor?
12:52 Commotion with the IDF senior ranks during the night
18:23 What are the entities that are featured most prominently in this report?
20:49 What happened at the IDF base at Nahal-Oz?
37:32 What did the probe find that we didn’t already know regarding Israeli intelligence?
43:33 Hamas’s conclusions and planning: post-2014 war to 2022
48:26 Israel’s intelligence failures and blindness to what would come on 10/7
01:06:03 Distinction between an internal IDF investigation and a formal government commission of inquiry
01:12:05 Would it be a mistake to conduct an investigation while the war is ongoing?
On Thursday, the IDF released the scathing findings of its probe into the military failures that led up to and accompanied the massacre of October 7, 2023.
According to those findings, the military vastly underestimated Hamas’s capabilities, misread its intentions, and failed to mount an effective response to the mass invasion of Israel’s borders. The IDF’s probe into its own failures reveals both the extent to which warnings went ignored, and the extent to which so many communities in Southern Israel were forced to fend for themselves.
While some of these findings come as no surprise, they are still shocking and devastating to process. We spoke with two of Israel’s leading national security journalists to walk through the key points of the findings.
Amos Harel is the Defense Analyst at Haaretz, and Nadav Eyal is a Senior Political Analyst at Yediot Achronot.
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ILAN BENATAR - Producer & Editor
MARTIN HUERGO - Additional Editing
YARDENA SCHWARTZ - Executive Editor of Ark Media
GABE SILVERSTEIN - Research
YUVAL SEMO - Music Composer
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