06:29 - Anatomy of a Failure (Hebrew: , in short: 06:29) is a non-fiction book about October 7th attacks and Israel's Gaza war, written by Israeli Haaretz journalist Amos Harel and published on 26th May 2026. The book offers a comprehensive investigation into IDF's strategic failures (In Hebrew: הקונספציה - The Conceptzia) that led up to the massacre and its aftermath in the Gaza Strip and in various Israeli sectors, including the military establishment, the political leadership and the media. Israeli critics have described the book as akin to a commission of inquiry into October 7th attacks.
Harel discusses the connection between the prevailing strategic assumptions of the IDF (conceptzia) that preceded the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and the assumptions that led to October 7th fifty years later. He describes the complacency, arrogance and mediocrity across both the political and security echelons in Israel. According to Harel, this manifested as a disregard for warning signs by the Israeli government (mostly led by Benjamin Netanyahu), especially during the Trial of Benjamin Netanyahu and the 2023 Israeli judicial reform protests.
External links 13 Signs That Israel Missed: How Disaster Unfolded the Night Before October 7 in Haaretz A New Book Reveals Perhaps the Most Important Lesson of October 7 in Algemeiner Journal 50 years and one day: How Israel repeated the failures of 1973 on Oct. 7 in Ynet
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