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Promoting Intelligence Studies in Israel by facilitating knowledge sharing & collaboration among scholars, both within Israel & abroad.
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Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts

Ofek Riemer

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Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts
This article explores the individual-level effects of an intelligence failure; in particular, on entry-level intelligence analysts. It draws on interviews with graduates of the first class of the I...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Introduction: rethinking strategic warning and intelligence failure in an era of global transformation

Shay Hershkovitz & Ofek Riemer

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Introduction: rethinking strategic warning and intelligence failure in an era of global transformation
This special issue of Intelligence and National Security examines the persistence of strategic surprise and the limitations of existing early warning frameworks in an era of geopolitical volatility...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Our latest edition, Vol 40, No. 5 is out now! This edition is a Special Issue on Strategic Surprise and Early Warning.

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Intelligence and National Security
Rethinking Strategic Warning and Intelligence Failure in an Era of Global Transformation. Volume 40, Issue 5 of Intelligence and National Security
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November 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

Proudly sharing that Meir Ben-Shabbat will be speaking at the Annual Israeli Conference on Intelligence Studies 2025

Registration Opens Sep. 30: www.ifis.co.il
September 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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📣 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT

Proudly sharing that Dr. Eyal Hulata will be speaking at the Annual Israeli Conference on Intelligence Studies 2025

Regitration Opens Sep. 30: ifis.co.il
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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New addition

Journal article: Introduction: rethinking strategic warning and intelligence failure in an era of global transformation by Shay Hershkovitz, Ofek Riemer (published 22-08-2025)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2546249
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August 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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An important article on the effects of cataclysmic failure on the bedrock of your organisation: your entry-level folk in the trenches.
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Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts
This article explores the individual-level effects of an intelligence failure; in particular, on entry-level intelligence analysts. It draws on interviews with graduates of the first class of the I...
www.tandfonline.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Many thanks Roger Boyes of The Times for this terrific review of my new book, Operation Wrath of God: www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Israel’s Operation Wrath of God: do targeted assassinations work?
In Operation Wrath of God, Aviva Guttmann examines the secret campaign to take out Palestinian terrorists in revenge for the Munich Olympics massacre of 1972
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July 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Hurray, I have been elected as Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) in recognition of my contribution to historical scholarship. I am now officially FRHistS!
July 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🚨NEW in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social (ed.
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"The vanishing watchman: the rise and decline of early warning" by Ehud Eiran, Ofer Guterman, & David Simantov

The article is part of a special issue on strategic warning & intel failure

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The vanishing watchman: the rise and decline of early warning
This article investigates the rise and decline of early warning as a priority task for intelligence agencies. The article shows that shifts in the prioritization of early warning are shaped by a co...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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🚨NEW in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social (ed. @smarrin.bsky.social)

"Learning from mistakes: the impact of the Oct 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts" by Ofek Riemer

➡️part of a special issue on strat warning & intel failure

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts
This article explores the individual-level effects of an intelligence failure; in particular, on entry-level intelligence analysts. It draws on interviews with graduates of the first class of the I...
www.tandfonline.com
July 24, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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🚨NEW in @intnatsecjournal.bsky.social (ed. @smarrin.bsky.social)

"Exploring the meaning and challenges of early warning" by Jonathan P. Proctor

The article is part of a special issue on strategic warning & intel failure edited by Shay Hershkovitz & Ofek Riemer

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Exploring the meaning and challenges of early warning
A consistent challenge in the study and practice of warning is that of definitions. This article focuses on the meaning of early warning, arguing that it should be explicitly separated from the ter...
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July 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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New addition

Journal article: Learning from mistakes: the impact of the October 7 surprise attack on the youngest generation of IDF intelligence analysts by Ofek Riemer (published 20-07-2025)

https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2526931
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July 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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👁️READ this commentary by Dr. Itai Shapira, a member of our forum: mwi.westpoint.edu/surprise-sur...
Surprise, Surprise: Misperception, Hubris, and Deception in Today’s Strategic Environment - Modern War Institute
In recent years, strategic surprises are everywhere. Russia and the United States were surprised by Ukrainian resilience in 2022, and Israel was surprised by the Hamas attacks in October 2023. Just re...
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June 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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🎧האזינו לפודקאסט עם פרופ' אורי בר יוסף, חבר נכבד בפורום שלנו, על ההפתעה האסטרטגית של איראן: open.spotify.com/episode/5ecz...
June 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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From Tel Aviv to Caracas to Ankara, one pattern holds: Populist leaders eventually target the spies. warontherocks.com/20...
Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond - War on the Rocks
Over a year and a half after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Israeli government is embroiled in an unprecedented institutional clash with the nation’s internal
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June 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Why would a country sabotage its own security agencies in wartime? Israel's leadership crisis reveals a troubling global pattern. warontherocks.com/20...
Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond - War on the Rocks
Over a year and a half after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Israeli government is embroiled in an unprecedented institutional clash with the nation’s internal
warontherocks.com
June 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Why would a country sabotage its own security agencies in wartime? Israel's leadership crisis reveals a troubling global pattern. warontherocks.com/20...
Populists vs. Spies in Israel and Beyond - War on the Rocks
Over a year and a half after the Oct. 7 attacks, the Israeli government is embroiled in an unprecedented institutional clash with the nation’s internal
warontherocks.com
June 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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📣Next week on our special webinar series:

Grzegorz Małecki, former director of Polish foreign intelligence agency (AW), and Prof. David Gioe (KCL), will discuss #intelligence-policy relations under populist governments in Poland & the United States

Register here: ifis.co.il
May 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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📣 Issuing today the call for papers & award nominations for the Israeli Intelligence Studies Conference 2025!

🗓️ October 28-29, 2025
🌎 @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social, Jerusalem

📩 Submission deadline: July 31, 2025
March 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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📣 Issuing today the call for papers & award nominations for the Israeli Intelligence Studies Conference 2025!

🗓️ October 28-29, 2025
🌎 @hebrewuniversity.bsky.social, Jerusalem

📩 Submission deadline: July 31, 2025
March 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Is the evocation of "organizational culture" a way to avoid personal accountability for (an intelligence) failure?

Whose interests are served by the construction of public, academic discourse over "intelligence failure(s)"?

Join us for a talk by Prof. Hamilton Bean>>
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Is the evocation of "organizational culture" a way to avoid personal accountability for (an intelligence) failure?

Whose interests are served by the construction of public, academic discourse over "intelligence failure(s)"?

Join us for a talk by Prof. Hamilton Bean>>
February 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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TOMORROW
ilintelligence.bsky.social The Israeli Forum for Intelligence Studies (IFIS) @ilintelligence.bsky.social · Jan 3
October 7 raised many difficult questions relating not only to collection and analysis, but also to the relationship b/w intelligence and policymakers.

On Jan. 21 we will hold a panel to discuss intel-policy relations in a comparative perspective (USA, Russia, & Israel)>>
January 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The long wait is over. 2025 is going to be a great year. Coming soon with Oxford University Press.
January 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM