Yedioth Ahronoth: Bar informed Israeli lawmakers of risk of multi-front war 3 weeks before October 7 attack

Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, published in Israel, wrote that Bar's warning came three weeks before October 7, 2023.

According to the news report, Bar "requested to speak in a rare manner" at the Israeli Parliament Intelligence Services Subcommittee. Israeli sources said that Bar warned Israeli MPs that "the outbreak of a multi-front war is imminent."

In the "secret" meeting, Israeli MPs were given the message that the division in society weakens deterrence.

Israeli security circles noted that Shabak Director requested to speak to the commission "because he saw that the warnings he had previously made were not taken into consideration by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government."

Bar-Netanyahu spat

Reacting to the news that he was warned by the United Arab Emirates and Egypt before October 7, Netanyahu claimed that the failures of the then Shabak Director Bar were blamed on him.

Claiming that Bar did not call him and inform him or warn the emergency teams and Israeli army units in the region, Netanyahu argued that his political rivals before the elections and foreign states that wanted to establish a Palestinian state were behind the news.

Following these statements, former Shabak Director Bar announced that he planned to file a lawsuit against Netanyahu due to his "slanders".