Israel is heartbroken, the house of Israel is heartbroken.

Israel is at war again fighting genocide.

It’s resilient people are traumatised by shock, horror and grief.

A quiet Shabbat morning, also the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah where Jews celebrate finishing reading the Torah and then start to read it again, “In the Beginning” was shattered by a mass invasion of Hamas terrorists, smashing through the concrete border wall, paragliding into Israel, before rampaging through a music festival, killing 260, machine gunning people at the bus stop and in their own homes in Sderot, in the canteen at a kibbutz.

Gruesome videos and pictures circulated on X, stuff you can never unsee.

The elderly and babies slaughtered; women raped, bodies taken to Gaza paraded and desecrated; mothers with children in their arms abducted, now hostages in Gaza’s terror tunnels, children in cages.

Depravity and barbarism reminiscent of the European Holocaust.

How did Israel’s famed security services miss this evil plan fermenting?

Can Israel contain this war to just one front? Or when Benjamin Netanyahu says retaliation will change the Middle East does that mean going to the source of this conflict, Tehran?

Is the long anticipated attack from Hezbollah about to happen? And what catastrophe would this wrought on Israel’s towns and cities?

How will Israel prevail?

These are questions for Israel’s former deputy national security adviser, Chuck Freilich, author of "Israeli National Security: A New Strategy for an Era of Change" and his latest brilliant new book, "Israel and the Cyber Threat: How the Startup Nation Became a Global Cyber Power."

You can get the latest news from X and Facebook, watch it on CNN, Sky, wherever, but let’s take a step back here, with someone I’ve come to know over the last couple of years.

Professors Chuck Freilich, welcome to Jonny Gould’s Jewish State.