The head of the southern area of ​​the Shin Bet is retiring

The head of the southern area of ​​the Shin Bet, A., is retiring from his position during his tenure, following the failure on October 7. His position is equivalent to a general in the army. A replacement has already been appointed for A., ​​another senior member of the Shin Bet from the Judea and Samaria sector.
Last October, the head of the Shin Bet Ronan Bar said that he took responsibility for the surprise attack on October 7. "Despite a series of actions we carried out, unfortunately, on Saturday we were not able to generate a sufficient warning that would allow the attack to be thwarted. As the one who is at the head of the organization - the responsibility for this is on me. There will be time for investigations - now we are fighting," Bar wrote in a letter on the eighth day of fighting.
A few hours before thousands of terrorists were stationed at the gates of the settlements, the IDF and the Shin Bet received signals about the movement of Hamas forces along the line of contact - and the head of the Shin Bet himself was dropped off at the organization's headquarters, and remained there until the attack broke out. The consultations that took place between midnight and 5:00 In the morning, it appears that the reaction was serious. Moreover, the Shin Bet's operational unit known as "Tequila" was even launched into the Gaza Strip in view of the fear of infiltration, but no one understood the enormous scope.
Last December, Ilana Dayan published in "Ovda" that months before Hamas's surprise attack, information was received from a human source operated by the Shin Bet in the Gaza Strip - that Hamas was planning "a major move the week after Yom Kippur." October 7, as I recall, falls on the weekend of Simchat Torah holiday.
It was also published that the same warning was not marked as significant information, and the assumption was that if it came true, additional intelligence would arrive to support it - therefore the information was not passed on to higher levels. Only in retrospect did the Shin Bet say that the level of reliability of that source was "very high".