Former Israel Security Agency (ISA) director Ronen Bar has some nerve. A mere two years after presiding over the worst intelligence and security collapse in Israel’s history—and far less than that refusing to resign or be ousted—he’s lecturing the rest of us on accountability. With an emphasis on the current government, of course.

In his address this week at Tel Aviv University’s CyberWeek 2025 conference, Bar pontificated: “Responsibility is infinite; you cannot distribute it, only take it. And in leadership, it is better to take responsibility for failures than credit for achievements.”

He then asserted, with air of moral superiority, that the “only way to conduct a comprehensive investigation into this failure [to anticipate and prevent the events of Oct. 7, 2023]—to know what reall

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