The View from Here

Male Israeli intelligence officers dismissed warnings from the front lines that a Hamas attack was imminent. It had a lot to do with the fact that the soldiers sounding the alarm were women

By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv

They were told that they were the eyes and ears of Israel. And they were. In the weeks before 3,000 Hamas terrorists stormed the Gaza border, murdered 1,200 people, and kidnapped more than 240, female soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.) reported that they saw major trouble looming.

Their male commanders ignored the women’s warnings.