11 March 2026

How Israel's cyber chief is navigating through the dystopian cyber-AI period

YONAH JEREMY BOB

One of Yossi Karadi’s predecessors as the chief of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), Yigal Unna, warned in 2020 that “cyber winter is coming.”

According to the standards of 2020, cyber winter has arrived and run roughshod over the civilized world, including Israel, leading to broader global economic losses of $10.5 trillion in 2025 alone, with direct losses to hacked companies in the hundreds of billions. In recent years, two quadrillion bytes of Israeli data have been hacked.

Karadi emerged from IDF intelligence into this cyber artificial intelligence dystopia in March 2025 to take over the INCD’s reins. Shortly before Operation Roaring Lion, he sat down for an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post.

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