Transportation Minister Miri Regev tore into IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi during last night’s cabinet meeting regarding the army’s revelation hours earlier that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received four communiques from the Military Intelligence Directorate in the lead-up to October 7 warning him about how the country’s enemies were seeking to take advance of the upheaval in Israeli society.

• “If the Military Intelligence Directorate were so disturbed, why did you go silent in October? Why didn’t you do more?” Regev asked in leaked transcripts aired on Channel 12.
• “All matters regarding the warning we gave about the seventh of October are being dealt with in internal investigations. If you meant in your question that we knew and ignored or that we wanted such a thing to happen – that’s not even worthy of a response,” Halevi shot back.

• “No one told me to ask this, but if you have so much free time, then maybe you can explain to us where was the army on October 7?” Regev responded.

• “Miri, enough. I will address this later,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu interrupted.

Source: TOI

• “If the Military Intelligence Directorate were so disturbed, why did you allow army-wide vacations in October? Why didn’t you do more?” Regev asked army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi.

Source: Al Jazeera