Where was the IDF on Oct 7? - with Ronen Bergman
b'*** Share on X: https://tinyurl.com/yvesakat ***\\n\\nOne of the questions we repeatedly get from you, our listeners, is - "Where was the IDF on October 7th?" It\'s a topic that we have strenuously avoided. After the war, there will be a formal commission of inquiry that attempts to understand all that went wrong and why. There will be a time and a place for that.\\n\\nAnd yet, as the war in Gaza winds down, and as Israel prepares for another possible war, this question re-emerges. What lessons can be learned? More and more journalists in Israel are exploring the topic. So, we are going to dedicate an episode from time to time in the weeks ahead to try to understand what these journalists are learning. \\n\\nOur only caveat is that this is a difficult topic to explore - for all the obvious reasons. The information is uneven... there is still an element of fog of war.\\n\\nWhen I was in Israel last week, I visited Ronen Bergman in his home in Ramat HaSharon, to have a long conversation about what he has pieced together. \\n\\nRonen is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine and Senior Correspondent for Military and Intelligence Affairs for Yedioth Ahronoth, an Israeli daily. Ronen recently won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this war and the pre-war intelligence failures. \\n\\nHe has published numerous books, including:\\n\\n\\u201cRise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel\\u2019s Targeted Assassinations\\u201d - https://tinyurl.com/mwbmchaj\\n\\nAnd also, \\u201cThe Secret War with Iran" - https://tinyurl.com/2p8sh9u\\n\\n\\nRonen is also a member of the Israeli bar (he clerked in the Attorney General\\u2019s Office), and has a master\\u2019s degree in international relations, as well as a Ph.D. in history from Cambridge University.\\n\\nRead Ronen\'s piece in The New York Times here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html'