Articles written by Josh Warhit

Josh Warhit|Oct 31, 2025

(JNS) — Fifty years apart, two disasters in Israel are bound by the same Hebrew word: conceptzia. Following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the term became shorthand for the conceptual failure that enabled Egypt and Syria to launch their joint surprise attack against the Jewish state. Translating to something between “governing assumption” and “preconceived notion,” it regained prominence in local vernacular following Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel five decades later. Since Oct. 7, 2023, conceptzia has become a polemical catch-all for blame ov...