Egypt warned Israel of 'major' Hamas attack: 'No world' where Netanyahu's not aware (Vivian Salama)

François Picard is pleased to welcome Vivian Salama from Washington. An attorney and staff writer at The Atlantic, Salama has reported from more than 85 countries. Her latest investigation takes us back to September 26, 2023. As Israel's national security establishment gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and one of the country's greatest intelligence failures, Abbas Kamel, then Egypt's intelligence chief, made an exceptionally rare and discreet visit to Israel with a stark warning about the dangerous situation unfolding in Gaza. Salama spent months reconstructing that visit, drawing on Israeli and independent flight data, sources on both sides of the Egyptian-Israeli border, and people subsequently briefed on the meeting. Her reporting establishes that Kamel spent approximately 67 minutes in Israel and met with senior Israeli national security officials. The central question is not simply whether a warning existed, but what happened to it once it entered Israel's political and security machinery. Was there any follow-up? As one former Israeli official told Salama: “There is no world where top Israeli officials meet with the head of Egyptian intelligen...