Aharon Haliva, the head of military intelligence for Israel, says that his directorate failed to alert the military and nation in time to prevent Hamas’s attack on Oct. 7. He is the first senior official to resign in response to the failure. The World’s host Marco Werman talks with Yossi Melman, a longtime Israeli intelligence reporter for Haaretz, about Haliva’s resignation and what it means.
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