____________________________________________ 4 IICC Perspectives to getting back the lost Arab territories. Information from a Mossad strategic intelligence source codenamed "The Angel", could have solved the "mystery" and a revealed large part of the "secret". But his reports, and reports from other sources, including the meeting with King Hussein few days before the war, were not interpreted correctly. The failure before the morning of the war, was not identifying the H-hour of its breakout, and the limited objectives of the Egyptian-Syrian operative plans. Thus, the failure of solving the "mystery" paved the way for the failure of revealing the "secret"… The intelligence failure in 2023 went deeper. Its "mystery" was the failure to understand the depth of Hamas' hatred for Israel and its determination to attack and massacre on such a large scale and with such unprecedented barbarity. Its "secret" was the Dday and H-hour of the attack, and the sheer numbers of the terrorists who invaded Israeli territory. The preparations Hamas made were difficult to hide, some of them made directly in front of Israeli surveillance. But not understanding the "mystery" and dealing with its consequences, made it extremely difficult to reveal the "secret". The failures of the entire Israeli intelligence community in the two "mystery" challenges of 1973 and 2023, were not the only ones. It is always difficult to indicate negative processes of strategic significance in advance, and thus, even the processes The Target before the attack The Target after the attack Surface-to-air SA-5 missile (Source: US Air Force Base Nellis) The Syrian nuclear reactor: before and after the attack (Source: IDF spokesman)
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