Israel-Hamas War: The IDF Unveils a Scary New Targeting AI

The IDF’s Gospel brings a scary message to the battlefield

Opher Ganel
5 min readDec 14, 2023
Still capture from IDF composite YouTube video.

It’s called “Ha’Bsorah” in Hebrew.

Translated to English it’s “The Gospel.”

What Is The Gospel, According to the IDF

The IDF’s news release says:

In English:

This is a plan to make intelligence fully accessible to the brigade and division level, and to close the loop with immediate fire aided by artificial intelligence (AI) systems,” noted a senior IDF official.

The ‘Gospel’ is such a system that is being used in the war. This system allows the use of automatic tools to rapidly produce targets, and works by improving accurate, high-quality intelligence material on demand. Using AI, and automated rapid extraction of continuously updated intelligence — it produces a recommendation for the researcher, aiming for a complete match between the machine’s recommendation and human identification.

The Targets Center produces the highest standard of targets. We do not compromise on the quality of the product and the intelligence and produce targets for precise attacks on Hamas-associated infrastructure, inflicting great damage on the enemy and minimal

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Opher Ganel

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