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Daybreak: IDF Thwarts Large Sinai Attack

Reports of an IDF casualty remain unconfirmed by Israeli sources

by
Adam Chandler
September 21, 2012
(Reuters)
(Reuters)

• Three terrorists armed with explosive belts infiltrated Israel from Egypt today. They opened fire on a group of IDF soldiers and workers before being killed by the IDF forces. More details to come. [Reuters]

• A new poll says that 69% of Florida Jews plan to vote for President Barack Obama in the upcoming presidential election. [JTA]

• A Kuwaiti paper quoted an Egyptian security official that claims Egypt plans to use chemical weapons against terrorists in Sinai. [Times of Israel]

• According to newly declassified documents, the Mossad failed to adequately warn the Prime Minister’s Office about the 1973 Yom Kippur War, about which it had advance warning. [JTA]

• It’s Leonard Cohen’s 78th birthday. That is all.

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.