Israel’s Rivals in a Fight for Survival

Book Review: In The War Room, by Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman

"The Inside Story of Israel's Fight Against Hamas and the Iranian Axis" after October 7

POLITICS: Go inside Israel’s war room on the day Hamas invaded

In July 2024, when the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited presidential candidate Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Netanyahu was pictured presenting Trump with a baseball cap that said “Total Victory.” It was a reference not to Trump’s electoral hopes but to Israel’s war aims following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attack. Israel demanded the return of all the kidnapped hostages. It also sought the elimination of the Hamas terrorist org…

Take a look inside Israel’s war room on the day Hamas invaded

Elliot Kaufman and Yonah Jeremy Bob's "Inside the War Room" gives readers an unprecedented look into the inner workings of Bibi Netanyahu and his war cabinet throughout the war against Hamas.

Israel’s Rivals in a Fight for Survival

In the War Room is a detailed reconstruction of how Israel's top officials navigated the three-year series of wars that began with Hamas's invasion of Israel on October 7. The book lets us zoom out, providing structure and narrative coherence to a conflict that is in some ways still ongoing, and that most people know only from daily news stories, many of them deeply inaccurate. The post Israel’s Rivals in a Fight for Survival appeared first on .