Yakov Katz

And now that the war has winded down, there's a lot of talk and a lot of demand of commission of inquiry on a national level that will look into what happened here to get to the bottom of it and study.

Let's go.

I've been doing this for about 25 years, covered military affairs.

Amir, my co-author, continues to cover military affairs in Israel for about 20 years.

I was the editor-in-chief of the Jerusalem Post, one of

daily newspapers big english language papers in israel for about eight years up until two years ago this is my fourth book i've written about uh israel's bombing of syria's nuclear reactor back in 2007 what happened in the bush years i've written about israeli military technology i've written about iran a lot uh actually here at this conference i'm at speaking on a panel about iran and the fear for example that the next round is not a question of if but it's more of a question of when

and that you're hearing from the intelligence folks both here and in Israel.

So really been in this space of Israel-U.S.

relations and of Israeli military and intelligence operations.

So I would split it into three different categories.

On the one hand, in the tactical, in that moment, in the 24, 36 hours preceding.

There were alarms going off and indications.

They were uncovering rocket launchers.

They were preparing Hamas.

They were preparing their underground bunker systems, tunnel networks for their top commanders.

There was things going on with their communications that Israel was picking up on.

All of that was information that was flowing in in real time.

Some of it was getting caught in bureaucracy, was not moving from one agency to the next.

That's always going to be a problem in the world of intelligence, as you know.

But that was there.