All the senior intelligence officers who were responsible for ensuring the security of Israel’s southern sector ahead of Hamas’s surprise attack on Oct. 7 have moved to other important positions in the IDF’s Military Intelligence Directorate, Army Radio reported on Sunday.
Four lieutenant colonels, each responsible for a different intelligence branch in the IDF Southern Command on Oct. 7 and who failed to anticipate Hamas’s intentions, have advanced to new commands, the station’s Doron Kadosh reported.
Lt. Col. “Nun,” head of the intelligence branch responsible for ‘hostile sabotage activities,’ whose job it was to alert the IDF to such incidents in the Gaza sector, has become head of the same branch for the Yehuda and Shomron sector.
Meanwhile, the Southern Command’s deputy intelligence officer, who was also head of its digital branch, will join a classified military intelligence unit in a senior position.
The head of the target branch, responsible for gathering intelligence on targets in the Gaza Strip, will join a unit at intelligence headquarters, which partners with the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) and deals with terrorist funding.
Finally, the head of the field branch will take a senior staff position at Unit 9900, the Intelligence Directorate’s Visual Intelligence collection unit.
Most of the four officers have already started in their new positions, Army Radio reported.
The appointments were decided by the previous head of Military Intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, who submitted his resignation in April over his failure to warn of Oct. 7. Haliva left the post and retired from the army on Aug. 21.
“On Saturday, October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out a murderous surprise attack against the State of Israel, the consequences of which are difficult and painful. The Intelligence Directorate under my command did not live up to the task it was entrusted with,” Haliva wrote to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi in his resignation letter.
The report on the four lieutenant colonels comes two days after it was revealed that a former intelligence officer in the Southern Command, identified only as Lt. Col. “A,” was removed from his post for carrying out an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.
Despite this ethical lapse, and his own responsibility for the intelligence failure on Oct. 7, Lt. Col. “A” was appointed IDF representative at the Israel National Cyber Directorate.
Lt. Col. Yossi Sariel, head of Unit 8200, also remains at his post despite calls for his removal.
Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence unit, is the IDF’s largest intelligence gathering unit.
An intelligence system that normally supplied important information on Hamas in use by Unit 8200 was down on the night of Oct. 6 due to a malfunction and fixed only after the Gazan terrorists had infiltrated Israel, Channel 12 reported.
The system, whose nature was not detailed, won an Israel Security Prize for its contribution to the country’s security.
However, former senior officers in the unit told Channel 12 that the system was down because it was neglected by Sariel, who dismissed its importance.
Although the identity of Unit 8200’s commander is normally a closely guarded secret, The Guardian outed Sariel’s identity in April due to a security lapse on his part when he published a book on Amazon.
Sariel authored The Human Machine Team, which offers a future vision regarding the relationship between human and artificial intelligence.
An electronic version of the book included an anonymous email address traced to Sariel’s name and Google account, leading the British paper to reveal the spy chief’s identity.
The IDF called the exposure of Sariel’s personal details “a mistake” and said, “The issue will be examined to prevent the recurrence of similar cases in the future.”
(JNS)
corruption at the top. this is is why israel has lost the war. these top intelligence officers even threatened the observers who warned about the attack to say nothing. they are traitors.
Yes, this most certainly is a really huge outrage. For not only did these officers not receive any meaningful reprimands or penalties for their horrendous blunders, they were actually “rewarded” with honorable promotions!! This clearly shows that the “higher ups” of the Israel government are obviously quite OK with what their officers did; they do not think it was anything too terrible at all.
But while they may think that it really was OK, we ourselves though have ab immensely serious obligation to truly realize that it was very, very much NOT OK.
We have an immensely serious obligation to truly realize that it was very, very much NOT OK because we have an immensely serious obligation to truly realize the exceedingly excessive horrific unspeakable harm that it has caused, which were four severely massive calamities:
1.) On October 7, 2023 itself, which was the very day of Simchas Torah, the highest Yom Tov of the year, way over a thousand Israel people, Hashem Yinakem Damam, were brutally massacred by the wicked Hamas hordes, Yimach Shemam V’Zichram, whom the wicked Israel government had allowed to storm into the country.
2.) On October 7, 2023, itself, which was the very day of Simchas Torah, the highest Yom Tov of the year, the Hamas hordes additionally abducted 253 people — of several different nationalities — from Israel proper to their Gazan strongholds. Only a fraction of these hostages were able to be rescued back. Many of them, Hashem Yinakem Damam, were subsequently also killed, and very, very many are still being held captive.
3.) This hyper-massive-October-7-Hamas attack then initiated a hyper-massive war by Israel back on Hamas, in which — by the numbers presented here on Matzav —over 700 Israel soldiers, Hashem Yinakem Damam, have been killed. Close to almost a year, it is a war with no end in sight, and has further involved severely massive attacks by Hezbollah and could further become a deadly conflict with Iran. That, could, Rachmana Litzlan, possibly involve by both sides the use of nuclear weapons, and, especially as Iran is strongly backed by both Russia and Communist China, could, Rachmana Litzlan, escalate into global conflagration.
4.) In certain ways, this fourth calamity is probably the most serious one. With this major war that Israel’s government launched in retaliation for the massive October 7 attack THAT IT HAD ALLOWED HAPPEN, there has been a horrendous sharp increase in Sinas Yisroel throughout the world.
Now, in almost EVERY war, each side will often complain & accuse that the other side is doing extremely terrible things to it. The wars of the last century over Eretz Yisroel are certainly no exception at all to this rule. On the contrary, as they involve Am Yisroel (being represented by the State of Israel), the complaints & accusations being hurled at the State of Israel (which is representing Am Yisroel) are far greater than what are directed at other waring countries.
And in this current October 7 war, these complaints & accusations are thousands of times more than even that!! They are screaming that we are intentionally committing outright GENOCIDE of the whole Palestinian people. We are carpet bombing whole sections of apartment house buildings. We are bombing hospitals. We are bombing universities. We are targeting doctors. We are targeting surgeons. We are targeting & blowing up food convoys. We tell Palestinians to evacuate a whole section to go south to a “safe zone,” but then we go and bomb that safe zone!!
Some will admit that, yes, what Hamas did to us on October 7 was very terrible, but what Israel has done back in return is far, far, far beyond any justification.
It does not matter that almost all of these accusations are huge exaggerations & complete lies — THIS IS WHAT IS BEING SAID!!!!!!!!!!