(JERUSALEM POST) – An IDF intelligence officer, with the mid-level rank of major from the Palestinian analysis branch, has resigned, becoming the first Israeli intelligence officer to resign over the failure to anticipate and warn of Hamas’s October 7 invasion of southern Israel.
The development, reported first by KAN news, and confirmed by The Jerusalem Post, is a major event in and of itself, but also could set the stage for additional much larger resignations.
To date, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar, and IDF Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva has also taken responsibility for the failure in terms which strongly hinted at their readiness to resign.
