While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East by Katz, Yaakov
While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East by Katz, Yaakov

While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East

A powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7 While Israel Slept...
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SKU: 9781250345684
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Author: Yaakov Katz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East by Katz, Yaakov

While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East

$75.06
While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East by Katz, Yaakov

While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East

$75.06
Author: Yaakov Katz
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

A powerful indictment of the political and military decisions that led to October 7

While Israel Slept tells the gripping inside story of how Hamas, Israel's weakest enemy, succeed in launching a surprise attack on one of the world's most powerful militaries. Through a detailed examination of the events leading up to October 7, 2023, the book exposes the intelligence and strategic failures that enabled this devastating invasion. It takes readers back in time, showing how years of complacency, mistaken intelligence analysis, and a misguided policy of containment enabled Hamas to prepare for an assault that Israel did not believe was possible and that would change the Middle East.

The book unveils the dramatic events of the night before the attack, highlighting the cracks in Israel's military and political leadership. It provides unprecedented details on how key warnings were missed, and how Israel ignored the growing threat from Hamas, believing that the group was weak and deterred. By exposing these failures, While Israel Slept offers a stark, sobering account of how overconfidence and complacency paved the way for disaster, while underscoring the critical lessons Israel must embrace to safeguard its future.

Author: Yaakov Katz, Amir Bohbot
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 09/02/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250345684

About the Author

Yaakov Katz is the former editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post and a senior fellow at JPPI, a global think tank for the Jewish people. He writes regularly for Newsweek and the Jewish Chronicle, hosts the JPPI weekly podcast and is a frequent guest analyst on CNN and BBC. He is the author of Shadow Strike and the co-author with Amir Bohbot of Weapon Wizards.

Dr. Amir Bohbot is one of Israel's leading military commentators, a lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, and a senior researcher at Bar Ilan University. He is a sought-after analyst on Israeli TV and radio stations, has worked for Maariv, and since 2011 has served as the military and defense correspondent for Walla.
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