IDF Military Intelligence chief Major General Aharon Haliva on Monday tendered his resignation to Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi for his part in the intelligence blunders that led to the Hamas massacre on October 7.
Haliva took responsibility for the oversight in anticipating the surprise attack about a week and a half after the war began. "We failed in our most crucial mission, and as the head of Military Intelligence, I bear full responsibility for this failure," he said.
"In all my visits to intelligence units, I emphasized that the war's outset was marked by an intelligence failure. Military Intelligence under my command failed to warn of the Hamas terror attack."
(Yoav Zitun)