“The intelligence directorate under my command did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. I carry that black day with me ever since, day after day, night after night. I will carry the horrible pain of the war with me forever,” Haliva wrote in his resignation letter, which was provided by the military.
Sanctions expected on the Netzah Yehuda infantry battalion as soon as Monday.
The Amalekites' historical attack following the Exodus parallels modern efforts to undermine an embattled IDF battalion through internal Israeli division.
"We were near the area and arrived within a minute," MDA emergency responder Yitzhak Har Kesef Daniel Levi recounted. "We saw an 18-year-old youth with a head injury walking at the scene. He was very distraught."
The cataclysmic events of the preceding year constitute a pivotal and substantive chapter in Jewish history. The murderous onslaught initiated here on Simchat Torah compelled many to turn to introspection. We understood that although fortitudinous, our existential peril persists.
