Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took at least two hours to leave his Caesarea home and head to the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv after Hamas-led terrorists began invading Israel the morning of October 7, 2023, according to an Israeli television report on Friday.

Earlier this week, Netanyahu’s office published what it claims were the minutes from the premier’s schedule from that day.

Those minutes showed that Netanyahu, alerted at 6:29 a.m. to the Hamas invasion, didn’t leave his home until 7:30 a.m. because it took time to prepare his convoy.

The minutes then stated that the premier arrived at the Kirya at 8 a.m., though they also noted that the Shin Bet’s minutes documented the arrival time as having been 8:22 a.m.

However, Channel 12 news reported that unpublished minutes from the prime minister’s diary placed the actual time of arrival at 9 a.m., while a “credible source” told the network that the real arrival time was not until 9:30 a.m.

This would mean that Netanyahu likely did not leave his house until 8:30 or 9 a.m., while thousands of Hamas terrorists invading from Gaza were rampaging through Israeli border communities.

Netanyahu also declared this week that had the security chiefs woken him up in the middle of the night to share the indications they were receiving about a potential Hamas invasion, he would have “immediately” mobilized the IDF and the Air Force.

However, Channel 12 said that after he was woken up by his military secretary at 6:29 a.m., Netanyahu did not phone........

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