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How Israel Surprised Iran Again
(Ynet News) Itamar Eichner - Israel managed to surprise Iran for the second time in less than a year in the opening phase of the current campaign. Security officials said the surprise was the result of months of intensive intelligence work aimed at mapping patterns of activity among Iran's senior leadership, identifying routine gatherings, and determining when key officials would be least prepared for an attack. They assessed that Iran was expecting a strike overnight. Instead, the operation began in the morning, seen as an unexpected window of vulnerability. A security official said, "All the conduct in recent weeks was designed to mislead them. Everything was planned in advance." In the opening hours of the war, 200 Israeli jets struck 500 targets - the largest strike formation in the history of the Israeli Air Force.