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Did Hamas Make Millions Betting Against Israeli Shares?
<https://politicalwire.com/2023/12/04/did-hamas-make-millions-betting-against-israeli-shares/>

December 4, 2023 at 10:52 am EST By Taegan Goddard
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“Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7 caught the Israeli army unprepared.
But somebody seemingly knew in advance and made billions betting against
Israeli shares traded locally and on Wall Street five days before the
attack,” Haaretz
<https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-12-04/ty-article-magazine/.premium/did-hamas-make-billions-betting-against-israeli-shares-before-october-7-massacre/0000018c-348d-d5f2-a5cc-769d7bea0000>
 reports.

“Short-selling Israeli shares – betting that they will fall – spiked in the
days before October 7, far exceeding the short selling during ‘numerous
other periods of crisis,’ Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Joshua Mitts and
colleagues wrote in a paper titled ‘Trading on Terror?
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4652027>‘ published
Sunday on SSRN.”