JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – On October 7th, 2023, Hamas succeeded in surprising one of the world's strongest armies and renowned intelligence agencies. A new book examines how the invasion caught Israel and much of the world off-guard.

With more than 1,200 people murdered and more than 250 kidnapped, October 7th marked the worst day in Israel's history since the Holocaust.

In the book, While Israel Slept, former Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Yaakov Katz reconstructs the warning signs Israel missed prior to the attack and assumptions that would prove to be fatal – a military intelligence system that failed to read the enemy's intent while overestimating its own deterrence.

Katz details the complacency, mistaken analysis, and containment policy that allowed Hamas to prepare an assault Israe

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