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Two Ways Oct. 7 Changed Israel and One Way It Didn’t

The impact will be felt for years, even if Trump’s peace plan succeeds. October 6, 2025, 7:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

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The one thing that everyone could be sure of as the events of Oct. 7, 2023, unfolded was that Israel would emerge from the Hamas attack a changed country. It was not just the immediate trauma of the roughly 1,200 dead and 250 hostages, but also how much it upset the assumptions that Israelis had made in the years before—that the country was more safe and secu

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