The Oct. 7 Warning That Israel Ignored

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🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In the weeks since Hamas carried out its devastating terrorist attack in southern Israel, Times journalists have been trying to work out why the Israeli security services failed to prevent such a huge and deadly assault. Ronen Bergman, a correspondent for The New York Times, tells the story of one of the warnings that Israel ignored.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is the Daily.
0:05.0	In the weeks since Hamas carried out a devastating terror attack inside of Israel,
0:16.5	my colleague, Roman Bergman has been investigating what kind of warnings Israel missed beforehand.
0:25.0	Today, the story of one of those warnings.
0:30.0	It's Monday,
0:35.0	Monday, December 4th.
0:37.0	Ronan, this is your first time on the daily and you bring a unique expertise that I'd like you to describe for just a moment because you have been covering the Israeli military and its intelligence services for decades.
0:54.3	And you've gotten to know those worlds extremely well.
0:59.2	Israel is the country that I think is influenced by its intelligence service more than any other country in the Western world.
1:08.0	It always had the biggest intelligence community
1:15.0	intelligence community in total number after the US.
1:20.6	Wow.
1:21.6	So just think of the size difference of those countries, right?
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:27.0	So Israeli security strategy is based on the intelligence services to supply a pre- alert to any kind of enemy intent to launch a preemptive strike on Israel,
1:41.2	to supply with viable real-time intelligence what are the
1:46.4	intense and the capabilities of the enemy and it's vast it takes massive resources And it has a lot of
1:54.0	has a lot of secrets and it has a lot of secrets.
1:58.0	Every day they create
2:01.0	unbelievable stories.
2:04.0	Not all of that by the way are glorifying them.
2:06.2	Sometimes the Israeli James Bond looks more
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