The real reason behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar may lie in an extraordinary four-page letter Bar sent to Netanyahu, attached to the intelligence agency's investigation into its failures ahead of October 7. In the letter, Bar provides a detailed account of the Shin Bet's operational failures and the political leadership's own failures that enabled the October 7 massacre. Bar asserts that Israel's entire security apparatus collapsed on October 7 and warns that failure to conduct a deep, independent investigation would put Israel's security in serious jeopardy.