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While Israel slept : how Hamas surprised the most powerful military in the Middle East / Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot.
Van Pelt Library DS119.77 .K38 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Katz, Yaakov, 1979- author.
- Bohbot, Amir, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Israel. Tseva haganah le-Yiśraʼel.
- Israel.
- October 7 Hamas Attack, Israel, 2023.
- Military intelligence--Israel--History--21st century.
- Military intelligence.
- Israel--Defenses--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 323 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- How Hamas surprised the most powerful military in the Middle East
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "A powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7 While Israel Slept tells the gripping inside story of how Hamas, Israel's weakest enemy, succeeded in launching a surprise attack on one of the world's most powerful militaries. Through a detailed examination of the events leading up to October 7, 2023, the book exposes the intelligence and strategic failures that enabled this devastating invasion. It takes readers back in time, showing how years of complacency, mistaken intelligence analysis, and a misguided policy of containment enabled Hamas to prepare for an assault that Israel did not believe was possible and that would change the Middle East. The book unveils the dramatic events of the night before the attack, highlighting the cracks in Israel's military and political leadership. It provides unprecedented details on how key warnings were missed, and how Israel ignored the growing threat from Hamas, believing that the group was weak and deterred. By exposing these failures, While Israel Slept offers a stark, sobering account of how overconfidence and complacency paved the way for disaster, while underscoring the critical lessons Israel must embrace to safeguard its future"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A country asleep
- How did this happen?
- Overcoming the fear of Gaza
- The tunnel blindness
- The birth of Hamas
- Targeted strikes
- Paying terrorist blackmail
- Preventing another October 7.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250345684
- 1250345685
- OCLC:
- 1478324660
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