A law was
approved by the Knesset on the beginning
of this year 2005 that is likely to prevent the
publication of the classified information in the 30-year-old
Agranat Commission report on the blunders of the Yom Kippur
War.
The Agranat
Commission filed a 1,500 page report of which only 40 pages
were published. It criticized the state's intelligence
services as being too concentrated, thereby contributing to
the surprise attack on October 6, 1973.
Source:
Law to halt Agranat Commission Report -
The Jerusalem Post
A professor of law,
Pnina Lahav has published nearly 50 journal articles and books,
including the critically acclaimed Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief
Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century. Winner of
Israel’s Seltner Award (1998) and the Gratz College Centennial
Book Award (1998), Judgment in Jerusalem was offered as a
selection by the History Book Club in the United States and was
the subject of a symposium at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of
Law in 1999.
Source :Pnina
Lahav
The Agranat
Commission, appointed by the cabinet to investigate the
debacle of the Yom Kippur War, catapulted Agranat into the
center of Israel's gravest crisis. He became the target of
one of the most acrimonious and caustic torrents of
criticism the country has ever known. The Agranat
Commission's reports were ferociously debated on the front
pages of newspapers, on radio and television, by every cab
driver and shopkeeper across the country. Every Israeli
had—still has—a definite opinion about its findings.
...
More, read chapter 13 in the book "War and the
Agranat Commission"
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