Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Military reporter Emanuel Fabian joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s Daily Briefing.

Israel carried out an airstrike in Syria on Monday evening, targeting a military facility near the city of Tartous in the country’s northwestern coastal region. And today, the Defense Ministry says it is carrying out activities to clear explosives from an area of the Golan Heights near the Syrian border. Fabian updates us on IDF activities inside Syria.

We spend the rest of the episode on a series of IDF probes into the failures on October 7, 2023. We learn about the immediate failures, including that the attack came as a surprise with no intelligence warning. Hamas had numerous forces and was attacking several areas simultaneously. And the IDF had far fewer forces and minimal capabilities available: When........

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