Major General Appointed to Investigate Hamas Attack Plan: "We Didn't Understand That We Didn't Understand"
Major General Roni Numa also criticized concepts based on an over-reliance on technology: "I was quite astonished to see that in units, on October 7, there were very serious people who thought you could replace…
Assessment
A major general appointed to investigate Hamas's attack plan is publicly stating that Israeli intelligence failed to grasp the nature of the threat. His criticism targets an overreliance on technology, specifically citing units that believed speech-to-text devices could replace human signal operators. This admission from within the investigation itself signals a profound reassessment of intelligence doctrine, with implications for how Israel evaluates technological solutions versus human analysis in security operations.