3 weeks before 10/7: Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar warned of the "perfect storm"

ynet reveals that Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar requested to appear before the Knesset Subcommittee for Secret Services about three weeks before October 7, 2023, and warned of the imminent possibility of a multi-front war breaking out. The title of his presentation was "The Perfect Storm." The central message was that divisions in Israeli society encourage enemies. Bar approached the committee after feeling his warnings were not being taken seriously at the political level.

ynet reveals another warning that preceded October 7, 2023: then-Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar made an unusual request to appear before the Subcommittee for Secret Services of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, about three weeks before the massacre. ynet has learned that Bar warned MKs of the imminent possibility of a multi-front war breaking out. The title of his presentation was "The Perfect Storm." The central message was that divisions in Israeli society erode deterrence and encourage enemies. Security officials say Bar sought to speak before the committee because he saw that his warnings were not being taken seriously at the political level. The revelation comes amid a sharp confrontation between Netanyahu and Bar, in which Netanyahu accused Bar of "failures and crimes" and Bar announced his intention to sue Netanyahu for libel. The phrase "The Perfect Storm" had already appeared in an affidavit Bar submitted to the High Court of Justice in April 2025.