Declassified Yom Kippur war papers reveal failures

21.09.2012                      05.Tischrei. 5773

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Declassified Yom Kippur war papers reveal failures

Shortcomings include failure to pass on warning of imminent war from a Mossad handler, erroneous IDF intelligence assessments.

Newly declassified documents released by the IDF archives have revealed serious shortcomings leading up to the surprise attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel at the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur War….