Inside Intelligence: Understanding Israel’s October 7 Intelligence Failure
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Join host Michael Ard for a curated discussion with Avner Barnea, former Israeli intelligence officer and current scholar, as they discuss "Understanding Israel's October 7 Intelligence Failure."
Barnea is a Research Fellow at the National Security Studies Center, University of Haifa. Formerly, he was a senior official in the Israeli Intelligence Community, and acted as a member of the Editorial Committee of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence. He taught the course “Counterintelligence in Democratic Societies” at the Political Science Department, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the course on interrelations between national intelligence and intelligence in business at Reichman University. He writes intensively on National security focusing on Intelligence. His book, We Never Expected That: A Comparative Study of Failures in National and Business Intelligence was published in 2021, by Lexington Books, NY.
Avner Barnea holds a PhD from the University of Haifa.
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