Commentary: The Hamas attack tore off Israel's veneer of invincibility. Is there a sustainable path forward?

Fifty years ago, almost to the day in 1973, Egyptian and Syrian forces invaded Israel in a surprise attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur. Not only were many Israelis unprepared because they were in synagogue or otherwise marking the solemn fast day, but Israeli intelligence agencies had failed to take seriously the threat of an attack by Egypt, Israel’s largest neighbor and foe.

The prevailing “concept” (known in Hebrew as the “konceptzia”) was that Arab armies would not