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Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

Update: 2025-10-01
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Yaakov Katz co-author with Amir Bohbot, of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, traces the failures that led to October 7 and how Israel's security establishment misread Hamas's strength and intent. He explains how world opinion, hostage leverage, and casualty ratios constrain Israel differently in Gaza than against Hezbollah, and how Netanyahu's post-ceasefire decisions prolonged the war. Katz argues Israel allowed hardliners to define the mission and assesses the current 20 point plan. Plus: the shutdown as a real-world experiment in Trump's expanded executive power.

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Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time