The general at the center of Israel’s Oct 7 intel failure dies while the full truth remains buried

Brig. Gen. Amit Sa’ar, the senior intelligence officer who led the IDF’s Research Division on October 7, has died at just 47 after a brief, brutal battle with cancer. He became the public face of Israel’s intelligence failure, yet stayed on to keep critical wartime intelligence flowing before stepping down in April. In his farewell letter, Sa’ar admitted “we did not meet what was expected of us,” even as former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot praised him for “looking failure in the eye.”