I haven’t seen any information regarding that.

1) They are fallible and imperfect (like the other humans) and not beyond criticism.

2) There are such visibly concerted efforts to take each of them down that it makes me suspicious of any criticism even when it seems reasonable. Not to mention the fact that it is often the same people behind both. I’m looking at you Barry O.

A good deal of BenDavid’s sketch above is paralleled there in greater detail.:
https://youtu.be/O5gHdAvPxLk?si=zJmtMpKgsfzgNkZX

According to one source they had planned for pessach but blinken and unrwa had not come up with all the monies yet

Please ignore the temper tantrum on the left that encouraged mutiny among the security services

Many years later I was a senior FSO in our embassy in Lima when domestic Peruvian terrorists captured a number of foreign diplomats in the Japanese embassy. A lot of us were in the embassy all night, and in constant communication with the Department of State, considering what we would be saying officially when the press began asking us for comment the next day.

Which brings forth an interesting aspect of the comments here: many add their personal stories to the topic. Ann Patchett wrote a book about the kidnapping at the Japanese Embassy in Lima: Bel Canto. I highly recommend the book. I read it decades ago. Maybe I’ll reread it. 🙂

But I have two Facebook friends, (and these are people I have known a VERY long time, though I have not seen in over twenty-five years) who virulently hate Bibi and the religious Zionists. One (who made aliyah when he was 18, and is now in his late 60’s), constantly refers to them as “fascists” ( I would so like to send him back to 1930’s Italy) and the other, (who made aliyah after he retired and is now in his early seventies), just bemoans how terrible the current government is handling EVERYTHING. (FWIW, both live in Tel Aviv.) They drive me NUTS.

My other Israeli facebook friends are pretty much as you describe most Israelis. On Facebook, they pray for the hostages, they share normal everyday things, like their pets, or their kids, they share the attacks that happen. They certainly do not fulminate on how evil Bibi and the right are. (FWIW, about half are people who grew up in Israel and served in the army, the other half are people who made aliyah as adults, and did not serve.)

I am not knowledgeable on he inner workings of Israeli politics and who should, or not, be held accountable for their intelligence failure that led to Oct 7.

But what happened on Oct 7 in Israel is analogous to 9/11 here in the USA. If I recall correctly, NOBODY lost their jobs or were explicitly held accountable; no heads rolled within the American bureaucracy.

When you have a bureaucratic quagmire, responsibilities are so diffused amongst several agencies with overlapping mandates that any supposedly responsible individual(s) can claim – and they do – that , it was a failure of the “other guy,” and “hey, don’t look at me.” And when you consider how agencies will circle their wagons to protect their own, no matter how culpable someone may be, those really responsible are protected by a wall of obfuscation and deceit.

The intelligence failures in Israel that led to the Oct 7 disaster are not unique. Any successful “surprise” attack can be considered an intelligence failure.