Archive Reveals New Yom Kippur War Docs

The Defense Ministry has made public for the first time, intelligence material from its archives from the deliberations of the Agranat Commission which investigated the IDF’s unpreparedness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
The material released includes correspondence between the committee and the head of Military Intelligence during the war, Maj.-Gen. Eli Zeira, as well as a letter from Zeira’s assistant, Brig.-Gen. Arie Shalev to the committee, which stated that Zeira had instructed to delay the publication of the dramatic intelligence that was gathered on Yom Kippur night, among other details.