For the past 20 years, Iran has been THE major project for Israelis.
Military, intelligence, academia, all rallied to the Cause. High schools offered Persian classes. Fantasy authors got stipends for writing novels about based Zoroastrianism.
It's Israel's failure.
Almost exactly one year after Israel launched war on Iran in the middle of negotiations, Netanyahu now presides over the worst strategic failure in a war he and the US started, following the worst national security failure in a war Hamas started on October 7