Israeli journalist Shlomi Eldar reveals Netanyahu's alleged ignorance before Hamas attack in new book

Shlomi Eldar is one of the best-connected journalists in Israel: The 69-year-old has been reporting on the conflict with the Palestinians for decades, speaks fluent Arabic and has accompanied the negotiations on the Oslo peace process. As a political correspondent, he interviewed Izchak Rabin, Shimon Peres and also Benjamin Netanyahu. In his new investigative book, he and his co-author Ruth Yuval reconstruct how the permanent Israeli prime minister is said to have ignored warnings about the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 and repeatedly let agreements to end the war in Gaza collapse for political reasons. The book has so far only been published in Hebrew; the translated title is: “Hostages: Abandoned for 843 days.”