Syria Strike Revealed
The Intelligence Failure: It Took Years for Israel to Discover Syria's Reactor
![Handout released by the Israeli military on March 21, 2018, pertaining to the airstrike it was revealed Israel had carried out to destroy the Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007.](https://images.haarets.co.il/image/upload/w_1758,h_1022,x_292,y_272,c_crop,g_north_west/w_609,h_343,q_auto,c_fill,f_auto/fl_any_format.preserve_transparency.progressive:none/v1521673787/1.5934155.3258707878.jpg)
Neither the Olmert government nor the intelligence community seriously addressed this question by means of an in-depth investigation. The failure to detect the Libyan nuclear program (see main article) in 2003 led to extensive criticism and a classified investigation by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, which became a source of much tension between committee chair MK Yuval Steinitz (Likud) and the heads of the various intelligence branches. In the case of the Syrian reactor, however, the tremendous lapse seems to have somehow been forgotten – apart from mention in some internal reviews in the intelligence organizations that were never fully addressed or resolved in an intra-organizational framework.
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