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What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, the former head of the research division in the IDF’s Military Intelligence division and former Director General of the Israel Ministry of Strategic Affairs outside the Nomi Studios in Jerusalem, June 21, 2023. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)

June 23, 2023, 5:56 am

What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

By Amanda Borschel-Dan

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, second from left, waves with released Palestinian prisoners coming from Israeli jails during celebrations at Abbas's headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah, October 30, 2013. (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

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Mahmoud Abbas celebrates the return of released Palestinian security prisoners in August 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

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Members of Israel's Druze minority shout slogans and wave their flags during a march in the Druze village of Yarka, Israel, Sunday, June 14, 2015 (AP/Ariel Schalit)

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Hezbollah fighters celebrating on the day the IDF left South Lebanon, May 24, 2000. (AP: Enric Marti)

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a February 4, 2015, visit to an army position on Mount Hermon (photo credit: AP Photo/ Baz Ratner, pool)

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On the periphery of the Syrian civil war, the two foes angle for advantages, risking all-out conflict

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Yossi Kuperwasser at a recent Knesset hearing (Photo credit: Flash 90)

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses Israeli students in Ramallah, on February 16, 2014. (photo credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash90)

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Palestinian children sit next to a woman holding a gun during an Islamic Jihad rally in Gaza City (photo credit: AP/Hatem Moussa)

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