John Jenkins and Udi Rosen

Sir John Jenkins is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange and former British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Dr Udi Rosen is a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange

How Hamas fooled Israel – and the West

How to explain Israel’s intelligence and military failure? The obvious comparison – one Israelis themselves are making – is with the 1973 October War, when the country was sucker-punched by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Yom Kippur, the Day of Repentance. That became known as a failing of the konzeptzia, the Hebrew term for the way